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Example sentences for "quiet corner"

  • Then Polly drew her off to a quiet corner.

  • In 1815 the tomb found an asylum in a quiet corner of the cathedral.

  • I found fault with the insignificance of the Swiss cottage, because "it was not content to sink into a quiet corner, and personify humility.

  • It was Bitter, Judd Jason's "legal" tool, and I permitted myself to be dragged out of the eddies into a quiet corner by the cigar stand.

  • She lunched alone, in a quiet corner of the dining-room of one of the large hotels, gazing at intervals absently out of the window.

  • Albert Gaffney was already in a quiet corner of the bar-parlour of the appointed meeting-place when the other three arrived there.

  • He led Allerdyke down to the office, completed the necessary arrangements, and went on to the smoking-room, in a quiet corner of which he pulled out his cigar-case.

  • Allerdyke, who was in a quiet corner, beckoned the detective to a seat, and offered him a drink.

  • Polly," said Ben, and he turned her off to a quiet corner, "perhaps they have never seen a Christmas tree.

  • Ben didn't really say the word, on account of Candace, but he shook his head, and Polly running over to him, he drew her off into a quiet corner.

  • He found her a seat in a quiet corner of the fruit garden, where a tall row of hollyhocks shielded them from observation.

  • Here we are in a quiet corner, it is true, but we are surrounded by several hundreds of other people.

  • The bar was crowded, but they found a quiet corner.

  • Brereton took the note and stepped aside into a quiet corner: the young man followed and stood near.

  • Beneath it he caught further sight of familiar names--and at that he folded up the bills, went into the Grey Mare, sat down in a quiet corner, and read carefully through the announcement.

  • Succeeding in his attempts at last, he beckoned that official into a quiet corner of the room, and turning his back on the group near the fireplace, pulled something out of his pocket.

  • Travers, the Third Form boy, rushed off to impart his information to other hearers, and the three chums passed on through the archway, and came to a stand-still in a quiet corner of the paved playground.

  • In the little interval before supper, however, the subject was resumed in a quiet corner of the passage.

  • Triffitt went round to the Magnet and got speech with Carver in a quiet corner.

  • He slipped into a quiet corner as soon as he had entered the restaurant, summoned a waiter with a glance, and for a moment concentrated his attention on the bill of fare which the man put before him.

  • She had been towed into a quiet corner of the harbour, and an old fellow who was keeping guard over her assured us that nobody but the police had been aboard her since Robertson brought her in.

  • In a quiet corner, he turned to me and pulled the will from his pocket.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quiet corner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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