Such women spent hours every day in their "stillroom" working up attempts to cure what ailed the people under their authority. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Geeks] Reference
But my mother thought the stillroom a very good occupation for me. From Wordnik.com. [Artichoke] Reference
In the first chamber, her stillroom, a half-empty flask stood on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
I had made a short detour to Brother Ambrose's stillroom on the way to my chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
“Every night before I go to bed, I stop by your stillroom and imagine you there.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Sara looked down and then tugged it even lower as she set about readying the stillroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
In fact, I was becoming slightly bored with the round between garden, stillroom, and kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
I had taken on the chores of stillroom and garden, and never dealt with needlework beyond the simplest mending. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Together, they watched as Figgs sent maids for water, clean linen for bandages, and ointment from the stillroom. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
The bedroom in front also was vacant, but I heard a faint shuffling noise from the stillroom across the landing. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
I am partial to the concept of the pantry, garde manger, stillroom, rootcellar, etc., both theoretical and actual. From Wordnik.com. [Toast:] Reference
Morgause's patronage, for which until the night in the stillroom he had been grateful, seemed likely to prove useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
My father had planted it for my mother, and built her a pretty stillroom that backed on to the wall of the countinghouse. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: I, Coriander by Sally Gardner] Reference
I had worked with her, side by side, planting herbs and harvesting them, making simples for the stillroom, explaining their uses. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
It began to rain lightly, drops spattering the long casements, but a small fire was burning on the stillroom hearth, and it was very cozy. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
And the queen's words in the stillroom, with the potions and the scent and the indefinable smell of evil, and the feel of her mouth on his. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
The head housemaid ranks next to the head stillroom maid. From Wordnik.com. [Something New] Reference
The stillroom maids have breakfast and tea in the stillroom, and dinner and supper in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Something New] Reference
His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
While I ate, Boris explained that he was working in the cafeterie of the hotelthat is, in English, the stillroom. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
To be sure, she thought Katie might be in the stillroom, or the linen closet, or the bathroom, and there could be no reasonable cause of uneasiness. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
A small instalment of out kitchen and stillroom riches. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We think it was the little room at the end of the stillroom passage. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Sara had proven that when she’d seduced him so thoroughly in the stillroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
"With a stillroom for you, and a study for me, lined with shelves for my books. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
"I've been wanting an excuse to go through the stillroom and sort out some things. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
She herself had gone to the big house as stillroom maid when she wasn’t but fifteen. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Death]
Since last week’s interlude in the stillroom, he had assiduously avoided her company. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Orossy wakes, senses Lerryn, and finds him hiding in his stillroom. he’s a bootlegger?. From Wordnik.com. [01/01/2006 - 01/08/2006] Reference
An 'she's got a scent about her like our stillroom when we're makin' pot-purry bags for the linen. ". From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
I have spent a long day in my stillroom and herbarium, and will be glad of a chance to stretch my legs — and you have said your brother wishes to see something of our village. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
English, the stillroom. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
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