1. He received us in the drawing-room.

2. Choosing the colour for the drawing-room walls was no easy matter.

3. They went through the hall and into the drawing-room.

4. I sat on the stairs near the drawing-room, listening.

5. We keep the drawing-room out of bounds.

6. Two strong young foresters appeared at the drawing-room door with it and even they staggered a little under its weight.

7. There was the nursery, the school-room, and the drawing-room: there were three lots.

8. She went into the drawing-room and sank down into a chair.

9. The drawing-room had not yet been invaded by the decorators and was still in its original cluttered and faded ragbag splendour.

10. The large drawing-room is reached through a garden room, its terraces leading to a Jacobean rose garden.

11. Sometimes Dolly marched out of the drawing-room, slamming the door and striding out of the house.

12. She marched into the drawing-room.

13. The drawing-room was a cool silver green.

14. The Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the Park.

15. The books scattered about her drawing-room.

16. The drawing-room is handsomely proportioned.

17. Mostly he played drawing-room pieces and he pounds the piano in the latest fashion with gobs of pedaling and no emotion beyond the soft pedal.

18. Feeling as though she had been punched in the stomach, she staggered into the drawing-room and sank on to the sofa.

19. She ran indoors, past the old servant, and hurried into the drawing-room.

20. Here everyone lived enfamille; there were swimming parties, excursions by boat, and in the evening charades or drawing-room dances.

21. Mars and Saturn could now be gazed upon in any nineteenth-century drawing-room.

22. And it is men and women in relation to each other, and in relation to nature, that really captures the imagination of these drawing-room philosophers.

23. When he had finished eating, she followed him into the drawing-room and watched him open her present.

24. He's off abroad or swigging sherry in some London drawing-room.

25. The main bedroom has balconies over the west-facing stone loggia and the bay window of the drawing-room.

26. The old dining-room is now a brass rubbing centre and the drawing-room is used for meetings and lectures.

27. The Collector and half a dozen Sikhs were still managing to hold the door into the drawing-room[Sentence dictionary], but only just.

28. She fell asleep to the sound of music drifting upwards from the drawing-room.

29. Once more, the manservant was there to show me into the drawing-room.

30. I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe!

31. When Mr Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came the animals were still unfed.

32. The back drawing-room has never produced a company of comedians so intensely and ostentatiously conscious of their own funniness.

33. As we sat together by the drawing-room table, to pass the last few moments en famille, it never occurred to me that a sad moment was impending.

34. But when she sailed into the drawing-room, Edward jumped up in surprise.

35. In the 17th century scaled-down carillons are introduced into the drawing-room: the musical clock contains a row of bells which are played by a pro grammed cylinder just like the tower carillon.

36. April 13. - An extraordinary coincidence: Carrie had called in a woman to make some chintz covers for our drawing-room chairs and sofa to prevent the sun fading the green rep of the furniture.

37. Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room , but also slept in the beds.

38. She submitted cheerfully to the purple satin and yellow tuftings of the Welland drawing-room, to its sham Buhl tables and gilt vitrines full of modern Saxe.

39. Cathy entered by the casement window of the drawing-room, and glided noiselessly up to where I awaited her.