antechamber

How To Use antechamber In A Sentence

• The main room was a rectangle with various antechambers and vestibules branching off down its length.
• Two female slaves were tending a small fire in a brazier in the antechamber, and when Burun entered they veiled themselves.
• Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
• When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
• There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
• The hatch opened into a small antechamber that led into the main hall.
• Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood. Men of Iron
• To the north a curved antechamber led to two rectangular rooms about 12 metres long, while a smaller antechamber led to yet another rock-cut chamber to the south.
• At last he went to the palace one day, and, being informed that the Caliph was making his ablutions prior to his prayers, sat down in an antechamber.
• So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card. The Lady Paramount