32 Verbs to Use for the Word salon

It was Mr. Oxford's chauffeur, waiting patiently till his master should be ready to re-enter the wheeled salon.

We are holding a distinguished salon, are we not?"

During the earlier part of his Venetian career he had continued to frequent the salon of the Countess Albrizzi, where he met with people of both sexes of some rank and standing who appreciated his genius, though some among them fell into absurd mistakes.

It was for her poetry that she was best known from 1775 to 1785, the period when she lived in the fashionable and literary world, and which she adorned by her wit and brilliant conversation,not exactly a queen of society, since she did not set up a salon, but was only an honored visitor at the houses of the great; a brilliant and beautiful woman, whom everybody wished to know.

The whole world, fashionable, political, and diplomatic thronged his salons, and invitations were eagerly sought for not only by the French people, but by the many foreigners who passed through Paris at that time.

J'étais descendue pour cela dans ce salon, et devinez qui j'ai trouvé tout à l'heure devant mon chevalet, et regardant votre portrait?...

It was possiblenay, probablethat in those days Lady Maulevrier would herself re-appear in society, establish her salon, and draw around her closing years all that is wittiest, best, and wisest in the great world.

We now find the sixth salon, to see Verrocchio's David, of which I have already spoken.

There was the serious circle around Madame de Tessé, where new ideas were advanced and discussed, and there was the gay circle of Madame de Beauharnais, whose chief attractions were her delightful dinners, and who, the wits declared, had "intended to found a salon, but had only succeeded in starting a restaurant."

As I opened the door of my guest-room, and stood aside to let him pass, I found that he had paused halfway up and was giving my raftered green salon and the library beyond a curious glance.

He haunted salons, and was graciously received by perceptive ladies, who never made a boredom of virtue.

There are few houses with the privilege which this enjoys, that of having the salon, as it is called, the apartment where we receive company, upon the first floor.

They invaded our salon, drank beer at eight o'clock in the morning, and looked on the wholein spite of their rosettes of black, red, and yellowas disreputable a lot of individuals as ever turned religion into farce.

C'est juste ... c'est le salon!...

As Helen was about to leave the salon Casimer appeared.

Between this Salle d'Attente and the den in which he slept, ate, smoked, and received his friends, lay the studioonce a stately salon, now a wilderness of litter and dilapidation.

For what do I need a salon and a parlor, a cook and a footman?

They occupied a grand salon, rich in moldings and gildings and poor in furniture.

Its leaders were at this time the Girondists, bent on the suppression of royalty, and headed by Brissot, who agitated France by his writings in favor of a republic, while Madame Roland opened her salons for intrigues and cabals,a bright woman, "who dreamed of Spartan severity, Roman virtue, and Plutarch heroes.

During this time the King, the two Queens, and the Duc d'Orléans had made their entrance, and were slowly passing round the several salons uttering courteous welcomes to the assembled guests, and the royal party had no sooner swept by the group to which we have alluded, than the Duc de Guise exclaimed disdainfully, "Richelieu has learnt to fear at last!

To reach the salons of semi-literary and semi-fashionable people, where rank and wealth were balanced by wit, became the desire of the young Mademoiselle d'Aubigné.

Some of his pupils were destined for a professional career; but many, men and women of rank and fortune, sought to learn from him the means of rendering their brilliant salons yet more attractive.

Yesfor over the vulgar multitude which sticks fast to the soil there soars, like beings of a higher nature, England's nobility, to whom their little island is only a temporary resting-place, Italy their summer garden, Paris their social salon, and the whole world their inheritance.

Chamfort makes the excellent remark that societyles cercles, les salons, ce qu'on appelle le mondeis like a miserable play, or a bad opera, without any interest in itself, but supported for a time by mechanical aid, costumes and scenery.

The purpose of this clever scheme was that the "pigeons" who visited the luxurious salons of the baroness, and whose money paid the expenses of these salons, should not have the smallest grounds for suspicion that the dear baroness's apartment was nothing but a den of sharpers.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  salon