191 Metaphors for room

I suppose, however, that the rooms we have taken are the best?" "The choicest, my lady," said Bowles, bowing.

A little Room adjoining to the Hall is a kind of Arsenal filled with Guns of several Sizes and Inventions, with which the Knight has made great Havock in the Woods, and destroyed many thousands of Pheasants, Partridges and Wood-cocks.

Thus the two rooms had been the scene of some events quite queer, if not really strange; but the queerest that ever they presented, I guess, was 'Sieur George coming in there one day, crying like a little child, and bearing in his arms an infanta girlthe lovely offspring of the drunkard whom he so detested, and poor, robbed, spirit-broken and now dead Madame.

The school-room is the place in which the principles of work are implanted: thoroughness, grasp, speed, decision, and definite purpose.

"That room they gave me is an inferno.

This room should be about 2.25 m in height and 1.25 m in length.

The lecture-room becomes a laboratory, where the mind of the hearer, in immediate contact with that of a man mature in the ways of study, of one whose whole life seems to have prepared him for the present hour, assimilates to itself more than knowledge.

Dalrymple's room was a monograph of himself.

To give for a moment his own account of it: "You know that room was the rummiest thing.

There was a lookin'-glass, the biggest I ever sid before, and the room was a blaze o' light.

The room is the parlour off the shop.

Lippo Lippi, and Giotto, andwhy, Orcagna painted on graveyard walls; and I can almost fancy, sometimes, that this room is a vault, a tomb, a dungeon, where they torture people.

The living room is belowhere!" I descended a ladder into a cellar ten feet below the gun level, where some of the gunners were lying on a thick carpet of perfectly dry straw.

But this bit of garden adjoining her own rooms was her especial pride, and contained the choicest plants she had been able to secure.

Even in that one small room there were enough things of price to buy a release from her most pressing cares; and the great house, in which the room was a mere cell, and the other greater house in Burgundy, held treasures to deplete even such a purse as Moffatt's.

The first room really was an office, a merchant's room with files for papers, maps, a safe for stocks, and various tables.

The adjoining room was Sir George's snuggery; and it was here that the cosy little round games after supper were always played.

" Opposite the Old Speech-Room was the interior of the Chapel, with its roof still echoing the thunder of the Parting Hymn; and the pulpit with its unforgotten pleadings for truthfulness and purity; and the organ, still vocal with those glorious psalms.

What a dreadful disorder all the rooms must be in!

After my death you must show him all the chambers, halls, and vaults in the castle, and all the treasures which are in them; but the last room in the long corridor you must not show him, for in it hangs the portrait of the daughter of the King of the Golden Palace; if he sees her picture, he will conceive a great love for her, and will fall down in a swoon, and on her account undergo great perils, therefore you must keep him away."

Her room is a jumble of disorder.

Sit down here, Norman; my room looks cool enough, does it not?" In its way her room was a triumph of art; the hangings were of pale amber and whitethere was a miniature fountain cooling the air with its spray, choice flowers emitting sweet perfume.

Round this room were loopholes in the walls, at such an elevation, that the men would be obliged to stand on benches in the event of their being required to oppose an attack of musketry.

The elegantly proportioned drawing-room (to which a fourth wall has been since added) was the subject of special mention in several leading newspapers after the production of Epigrams at the Niobe Theatre; while each of the twelve bedrooms represents some recent triumph in the Problematical Drama.

This room we're in is not a cell block-it's a dormitory.

191 Metaphors for  room