1997 examples of parlor in sentences

They "wanted to see the company down stairs;" so they have dressed themselves, and come back to the parlor.

Just then Grace came and stood in the parlor doorway.

Ma doesn't allow that cage in the parlor.

Aunt Madge was walking the parlor floor, and Horace sitting on the sofa, as rigid as the marble elf Puck, just over his head.

The whole party were tired, and Horace's gloom seemed to fill the parlor like a fog, and make even the gas look dim.

Nathaniel, the waiting man, ushered into the parlor a droll little old woman, dressed in a short calico gown, with gay figures over it as large as cabbages; calf-skin shoes; and a green pumpkin hood, with a bow on top.

" "Horace, I can't find auntie anywhere in this house," said Prudy, appearing at the parlor door.

She opened the parlor-door; and stood looking in, with the strange imperceptive gaze of a sleep-walker.

He is waiting for you in the parlor.

She took his hand, for he was hanging back as they came near the parlor-door, and led him in.

The mother and son sat, hand in hand, before the little glinting blazing parlor fire, with the unlighted candles on the table behind.

Either it is my Lord Eldon who sits on the wool-sack, or the young curate bids his Oxford laurels against a head-mastership of a public school and covers his baldness with a mitre, or Jones Lloyd steps from his back parlor into the carriage which is to take Lord Overstone to the House of Peers.

Now "Mose" brings his Bowery Boys into our parlor, or Cromwell Judd recruits his Ironsides from the hamlets of the Kennebec.

On reaching there, she wrote to her husband: Here we are, sitting by the fire in our dear little parlor.

One man stood on the front steps, and another slipped the hasp to one of the parlor windows, stepped in, took a very valuable French clock, given me on my silver- wedding day, and all the hats and overcoats from the hall.

Little did I think, when she loaded me down that last day with all I could carry, then ran down to the parlor to show me some choice articles there which she knew would give me pleasurelittle did I think that I should see her again no more!

She remained in the parlor, talking with me and the boys, and reading the paper, until the girls returned from the Wednesday evening meeting.

After tea she sat with us in the parlor for some time and then, kissing M. good-night, omitted Hatty and the boys (a most unusual thing), remarking, as she left for her chamber, "Well, I'm not going to kiss all this roomful.

He came very soon and she received him in the parlor.

She wouldn't listen to Agony and her wise-sounding talk, withdrew to herself a great part of the time, and for lack of other supporters spoke out her mind to the portrait of Elizabeth Carver, hanging serenely over the harp in the long parlor.

I had been faintly aware of a buzz of conversation in the parlor, but had not at all awakened to its import until these sentences fell, or, I might rather say, were hurled upon my ear.

I presume the young people had either not seen me lying there,the Venetian blinds opening from the parlor windows upon the piazza were partly closed on account of the heat,or else in their excitement they had forgotten my proximity.

Albert led her into the parlor, for the parlor was always private enough on a pleasant day.

Albert led her into the parlor, for the parlor was always private enough on a pleasant day.

To Albert the parlor was full of associations of the days in which he had studied botany with Helen Minorkey.

1997 examples of  parlor  in sentences