She sent in her card, sat down in the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
He made for the waiting-room, still carrying his man. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Joyce turned sadly, wearily, towards the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Fortunately for me two young students entered the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
That door's open and there's a fire in the waiting-room, you see. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
The women fared as well as those who chose the waiting-room route. From Wordnik.com. [Health: Dial-Up Doctor] Reference
And the only empty seat in the whole waiting-room was next to mine. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
The bell sounded, and the waiting-room became a scene of confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
Christopher came out of the waiting-room and at sight of him it fell again. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
In a waiting-room, which projected over a vast cliff, Boris faced his captive. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
The tables are waiting-room tables and the tomes are as Mr. ASQUITH has described them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
When Tranter returned to the waiting-room, he found Monsieur Dupont asleep in an armchair. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
There was twenty minutes difference between the one in the office and the one in the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
In the waiting-room her attention had been attracted by the efforts of a man to annoy a little girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
At her house she found in the waiting-room the marketwoman, who had come to present a bouquet to her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The custom-house contains one waiting-room for the first and second class, and another for the third. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Besides, at any moment you may blunder into some very secret waiting-room labelled "Serjeant-at-Arms.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
We went into a private waiting-room where Captain Robinson signed a paper for the Lieutenant-governor. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
We carried him into the waiting-room, laid him on the cushions there, and sent hot-foot for the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
The shoeblack's platform, of more than ordinary proportions, occupied a good fifth of the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Both men were talking, and as they entered the waiting-room Alex heard the evidently still unsuspecting. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
Christopher ordered them to carry the little form into the waiting-room, where it was laid on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Wade standing near the door of the big rotunda waiting-room and I had hard work to keep from calling out. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
I had stared indifferently at several ladies in turn who were yawning in the corners of the waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
While waiting for the train I was furnished with a sofa by the kind matron who kept the ladies 'waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
With hunger gnawing at his vitals he saw a beautiful dinner laid out in a waiting-room for some staff officers. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
When he was seated in the medical man's waiting-room, it seemed to him that the doctor was going to pronounce his doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
The days passed quickly until Wednesday, and the afternoon of that day found Archie in the waiting-room of Mr. Depaw's office. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
Like a waiting-room it is furnished with chairs and tables, and like a cell its door is provided with a strong, self-acting lock. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
They spent it in the waiting-room, Mrs. MacDougall having first procured for Elsie as comfortable a tea as her means would allow. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
With no delay, and also with no haste, we entered what appeared to be a smaller apartment opening out of the general waiting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
On reaching the station I happened to look into the third-class waiting-room, and there I spied a figure alone that looked familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
She was exasperated at being obliged, with her talent, to climb all those stairs, to hang about in the waiting-room, she, Lily Clifton!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
In a little waiting-room an iron-faced jail attendant handed him his watch and knife and some money taken from him when he was locked up. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
The waiting-room is deserted, except by some such lounger as yourself, or a passenger left by the last boat or "too previous" for the next. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The detention room of a London police station is a compromise between the comparative luxury of a waiting-room and the harshness of a cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
At Lucerne while waiting for the train, I turned over the book in the waiting-room that describes the construction of the Gotthard railway. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
I was met at the Pittsburg depot with passes, and conducted to the waiting-room for a few moments, when the young man came to assist me on the right car. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
When he reached the station he found no depot and only a few houses; a box car had been set beside the track and in it was a tiny waiting-room with a fire burning. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
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