"Front room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instruction. My husband was seized with a heavy cold, accompanied by a severe cough, that was increasing; yet he was able to be about the house and barn, giving directions, as to outdoor work, but nothing appeared alarming, when I was aroused by a startling dream of a coffin being brought into our front room by four men, of whom I inquired who was dead. The answer was, "A connection of yours." "I want to see him, for that coffin appears to be for a small man," was my reply. "He is a small man," was the rejoinder, "and you shall ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... ato-glass and began to study one of the sections. But the lamp was not very powerful, and insufficient for the tiny details. Sutter abruptly remembered the four-position lamp in the sitting room. He took the shell and the ato-glass and went to the front room, hoping that Travail was ...
— Made in Tanganyika • Carl Richard Jacobi
... eyes shone in their wrinkled sockets. Delia remembered a recent visit to Miss Toogood's tiny parlour behind the front room where she saw her few customers and tried them on. She recollected the books which the back parlour contained. Miss Toogood's father had been a bookseller—evidently a reading bookseller—in Winchester, and ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... front room of the stone house were men of the type with whom he had once foregathered—men not of his class or kind, but interesting because of their very differences—human ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... step into the front room, Miss Lacey?" asked Mrs. Lem, with a grand air, "or would you prefer to go directly upstairs ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
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