Both parlours have been newly papered to-day, and the walls are quite wet.
Both parlours were lighted up with chandeliers, and filled with company.
I see," said Cheston, "you are having yourparlours papered.
John stayed in the parlours with Aunt, and Ned danced with Milly, but I was not jealous.
The General had been sent for, and I kept close to her and to Peggy, when they went down with our party to the parlours on the second floor.
The Plankenhorst parlours were even on that day filled with their usual frequenters; but instead of piano-playing and gossip, entertainment was furnished by the distant report of musketry and the hoarse cries of the mob.
In the Plankenhorst parlours there were but three persons, the two ladies and JenA'.
He thinks very ill of the atmosphere of parlours or libraries.
I shall make an attempt to keep the reception-room in some sort of order; and as it is comparatively small and I can dust it myself, I may succeed, but I don't suppose anyone will ever enter the parlours again.
The big parlours were certainly to be regretted; but there were other parlours that were not half bad, and it was terribly up-hill work entertaining Don Roberto.
No flowers graced the square ugly rooms, no decorations of any sort; but the parlours were canvased, the best band in town was tuning up, and the supper would be irreproachable.
She went into the big parlours to await her parents' return; they had been spending a day or two at their country house in Menlo Park, and would return in time for dinner.
Have the parlours lighted rather earlier than usual, that your guest, on her entrance, may be in no danger of running against the tables, or stumbling over chairs.
The President and his wife, he elderly and severe of countenance, she young and mild, received in one of the parlours all who would shake the hand of Mr. Davis.
In those little temporary parlours three tables were spread with napery, not so fine as substantial, and at every board a comely hostess presided with her pan of hissing sausages.
I'll go into the parlours then, --you get her downstairs.
The parlours divided by folding doors mostly open, ran from back to front.
One might suppose that Mrs. Kensett would have felt some risings of pride, as, leaning on the arm of her youngest son, she mounted the marble steps, and walked through the spacious halls and beautiful parlours of his home.
Did she think that certain things which occurred in her parlourson that evening were not in accordance with the text?
Christmas seems to me somewhat meaningless; but I have looked through windows in poverty-stricken streets, and have seen dingy parlours gay with many chains of coloured paper.
If no longer prizefighting was to be had, at least there were boxing competitions, so called, in dingy back parlours out Whitechapel way.
With this they buy coffee and other refreshments for the lads who come to visit the parlours where in the long winter evenings the women sit spinning.
He had even said that he never was in the gambling parlours but once, when he went into them very early with the porter, to assure himself that some new carpets asked for were really wanted.
Splendid churches and cathedrals, the legal possession of which would be contended for by rival sects, could scarcely be replaced by temporary structures of lath and plaster, or by humble back parlours of mechanics' shops.
On one side a door opened upon the three little parlours that were used when the party was small; at the back a lobby led into the old hall itself; on the third side was the door used by the servants.
As he went the door into the parlours opened and his mother looked in.
No," said the girl, "the laboratory work includes for this semester ice-cream parlours as well.
He used to spend all his evenings sitting round in the back parlours of the saloons beside the stove.
Upon this the old man wrote a note, which he dried with sand out of a perforated bottle, as Richard Steele may have dried one of those airy tender essays which he threw off in tavern parlours for the payment of a jovial dinner.
At dusk, weary and travel-stained, she sat in the parlours of a hotel--a great gray columned structure of stone.
If she went into the parlours she would probably sit and talk to herself or play quietly with her shabby doll.
If they had locked the doors of the big parlours it would not have mattered.
The abbatial parlours have been converted into lofts, while the crypt has returned to what may not improbably have been its original uses--the storage of great casks of the ale for which Abingdon is well famed in its own neighbourhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parlours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
