Then, feeling better, he dragged himself up the entry stairs, threw his suit-case at the bedroom portiere with a sigh of relief and himself on the divan with a sense of having done his duty.
But the step was quicker and more impetuous than his; the portiere was raised, and with an exclamation of mingled delight and terror, the princess sprang from her chair.
Illustration: No Fixtures That will Show are Required with This Fastening of a Portiere Pole] To place the pole in position, put the end with the spring in the hole on the screw head projecting 1/4 in.
Scarcely had the portiere fallen when he sprang across the room, and darted toward his sleeping-chamber.
Marie Antoinette looked after her, until the last traces of her long train had vanished, and the silk portiere had fallen in its place.
Behind the portiere there was the faint sound of a mocking laugh, but neither mother nor son heard it.
Once more the portierewas drawn aside, and the officer beckoned the girl to advance.
When the heavy, gold-bordered silkenportiere had fallen, the tyrant spoke.
Once within, the door was closed, and the purple velvet portiere was dropped before it.
To-day she sat in this boudoir, feeling so secure from visitors that she had raised the portiere leading to her parlor, and had flung wide the casement which opened upon the park.
He bowed, and the heavy portiere fell behind him as he passed from the czarina's sight.
Then, bowing deeply, the secretary backed out of the room, and the discreet portiere fell, preventing the transmission of the slightest sound.
She took up a tiny gold bell, and ringing it so that it gave out but a few strokes, a portiere was raised, and Koch entered the room.
It is behind the portiere to the library, where I left it.
Grasping my weapon in such a manner as to be ready for any emergency I sidled along the wall of the corridor, concealing myself behind the portierewhich hung at the door, and cautiously peeked within.
Otto was in the act of pushing aside the embroidered white velvet portierethat curtained the door, when his hostess smilingly beckoned him away.
While every one gathered round Lady de Courcy, and smelling-salts were in requisition, he lifted the white portiere and peeped through a small antechamber into the music-room.
The arch is supported by five columns between which hangs a silken portiere in four sections.
The Veil, which separates the Terrestrial Room from the room that typifies the Celestial state, is a portiere hung in four sections.
A second later he pushed his head through the portiere and repeated: "No, sir; all is not lost!
The plight of the good man's mind may be imagined when, now accompanied by the young girl, he again approached the leather curtain orportiere of the hall.
The portiere was drawn aside, and other guests announced.
The folds of the portiere fell together and John Martin passed out onto Fifth Avenue, in an ecstasy.
She looks through the portiereinto the smoking-room.
He closes it carefully, draws the portiere over it, only that Mascha may not hear anything else offensive.
While Roberts remains with his eyes shut, and his head sunk on his breast in token of extreme exhaustion, she disappears and reappears through the door leading to her chamber, and then through the portiere cutting off the dining- room.
And as theportiere which he had drawn that she might pass fell back into its former folds, for a moment he stood perplexed.
He reached the portiere before Justine fully grasped the discourtesy of his conduct.
A portiere had been drawn, and some one was entering the room.
As he contemplated it, he heard the tinkle of the portiere rings.
And as the servant drew the portiere to the drawing-room aside, Roland was visited by that emotion the gambler knows who waits the turning of a card.
Now draw the portiere back, General Scharnhorst, and stand there.
Thus Anselme found him when he thrust aside the portiere to announce that a Monsieur de Garnache, from Paris, was below, demanding to see the Lord Seneschal at once upon an affair of State.
Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache.
As he entered he drew the heavy portiere over the closed door and passed to the desk in the corner and sat down.
Before Brenda had time to argue this point with her mother, theportiere was pushed aside and Belle and Edith came into the room.
And Brenda pushed aside the portiere and left the room.
The other turned one side to where a heavy portiere screened an alcove, parted the curtains and set a chair in the hidden space.
Harry felt, rather than heard, that the other had swiftly entered the alcove, and drawn the portiere into place.
Behind the portiere the red-rimmed eyes peered questioningly into the eyelet holes of the black mask.
Behind the portiere Harry sat motionless, the muzzle of the weapon at his temple, his hair stirring to the suppressed breathing above his head, and the man in the mask shifted his felt-shod feet, restlessly but without sound.
Lifting the portiere inside, she entered the sleeping-room, and found the robe de chambre hanging over the back of a chair.
Over the door opening into his adjoining bedroom a heavy portiere of crimson plush usually hung, but a few days previous winter draperies had been replaced by Madras curtains that resembled stained glass.
Then the portiereparted for the second time, and Benson led the burglar into the room.
It was a disturbed yet sleepy voice, muffled, apparently, by a second portiere hung on the outside of the second door.
And I tore the portierefrom her grasp and flung it to one side.
After he had drunk it, he drew aside a heavy portiere of peach-coloured plush, and passed into the bathroom.
Mr. Podgers glanced nervously round, and drew the heavy portiere across the door.
St. Augustine's letter to Pope Celestine in 424 shows that it was a common thing to refer disputes to Rome for settlement.
Possessed of a capacity for complex rule, an extraordinary organiser and administrator, he used all his ability to make Christianity and the Papacy the one great world power.
They may vary all the way from a few inches to a length long enough to weave an inch in the portiere or cover.
A charming mottled effect in one instance was produced by a yarn which was ravelled from an old raw silk portiere of a mahogany shade and wound into balls with finely cut strips of tan cloth, the balls being rewound several times.
Passing the dormitory and visitors' room, we lift a tapestry portiere and enter the small apartment which is her oratory.
The private office of Lecazes was reached from the outside by an antechamber with apparently but one entry, that of the rear, leading to the hall and before which hung a green silk portiere brocaded in yellow palms.
He laid aside his overcoat in the little hall, conventional with its waxed wood and its mirror, clicked an electric-light switch and passed through a portiere into the salon, which was the chief room of his abode.
The door by which the footman had departed was concealed by a portiere of heavy velvet; a hand had moved it aside and a face was looking round the edge of it at her.
Some rumour of the doings of the Shadow Club which had come to her made her go to the west wing and push aside the portiere hanging over the door that led to the outside stairway.
As Lloyd passed theportiere at the end of the hall she pushed it aside and drew back the bolt, as she had promised Kitty to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portiere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
