41 Metaphors for chambers

The chamber in which this brief dialogue took place was a meanly-furnished apartment in a small house situated in the suburbs of Manchester.

Item, That, when any strainger goeth hence, the chamber be drest vp againe within 4 howrs after, on paine of 1d.

Sir, they are in tribes like Jewes: the Kitchin and the Dayrie make one tribe, and have their faction and their fornication within themselves; the Buttery and the Landry are another, and there's no love lost; the chambers are intire, and what's done there, is somewhat higher than my knowledge: but this I am sure, between these copulations, a stranger is kept vertuous, that is, fasting.

In the first place, this dowdy chamber is in one view a perfect denno carpet, whitewashed walls, loose windows that have the shaking palsy, fire-red hearth, blue paint instead of white, or rather a suspicion that there was once some blue paint here.

The room adjoining the sealed chamber was a large hall, utilized only for rare important events.

No one could manage Mrs. Markham as well as Melinda, and it was owing to her influence wholly that the large, pleasant chamber, which had been Richard's ever since he became a growing man, was renovated and improved until it presented a very inviting appearance.

Even this chamber of pain was a haven of refuge to these broken men after long jolting rides over execrable roads.

The church had come to the poor girl in her narrow room, or her chamber had become a church.

As soon as I was attired we went to the dancing hall and the first thing that I saw in that tall, scintillant chamber was the huge form of Singanee standing among the dancers and the heads of the men

The Representative Chamber of France has undoubtedly been the source of those hostilities, which I should not have despaired of seeing averted through the pacific disposition of the French King.

Mr. Holmes' chamber is the snuggest room in the house, so full of books that you can't be lonely in it, and then the fire on the hearth is company.

The reader may not remember that the central chamber of the women's apartments, next to which was Eunané's, had been left vacant.

No; my chambers are some doors further downnumber 6A"and he turned to point out the house as we crossed towards Crown Office Row.

The adjoining chamber was his library; its windows opened on a balcony looking on two lofty and conical hills, one topped with a convent, while the valley opened on the side and spread into a calm and very pleasant view.

A long chamber in the middle of the house was the shop, always smelling of woolen shreds.

This small chamber is the private cabinet of Sir Giles Mompesson.

The chamber in which he is confined is a marvel of decoration, light streams into his home through panes of beautifully stained glass.

The Chamber is a legislative anarchy from which a few honest and patriotic men occasionally emerge as ministers through a chance combination, to disappear again with the first tumult, and the influence of the chief of the state was never such as to guide it out of the chaos.

On the top of Helvellyn she wrote the following lines in a sketch-book: How softly the winds of the mountains are saying, "No chamber of death is Helvellyn's dark brow;" On the "rough rocky edge" are the fleecy flocks straying, And "Red Tarn" gleams bright with a thousand stars now.

Round the central chamber are the coal hoppers, and from each of these gas is distilled, passes into the central chamber, where the ware is stacked, and meeting with an adjusted supply of air as it rises, it burns in a large flame, which extends through the whole space and swathes the material to be heated.

This chamber, then, was the temple of her mother's woe, the tomb of her baffled affections and bleeding heart.

But my fatal eyes, behind the glasses, followed and entered with him, and saw that the chamber was a chapel.

Her gentlewoman, Victoire, persuaded her that her prudent course was, as she could not fly, to receive the troops as though she suspected nothing, and that her chamber was the best place wherein to await them.

The Chamber was not the only secret of the asteroid which Lurton had retained for himself, but it was certainly the best one.

On the floor there were four large rooms, with kitchens opening out behind, and above there were, of course, chambers in proportion and in the little garden there was a pond and a big bath-house, and there were coach-houses and stables;so that it was quite a mansion.

41 Metaphors for  chambers