How To Use Antechamber In A Sentence
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The three entered the castle, walking down the main hallways until they reached a small antechamber near the end of the hallway.
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A colonnaded court, hypostyle hall and antechamber led to two doors, beyond which were two precincts and two naos, or inner sanctums.
From This Beloved Hour
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On either side of the interior door of the antechamber was a turnstile or tourelle, which enabled the inmates within to receive anything from the outside world without being themselves seen.
The Golden Dog
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Late that evening, the Lady Betriz called him up to the office antechamber that was rapidly becoming a place of hectic nightmare.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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The stairs creaked, the attic was spooky, the cellar dim and creepy; there were storage antechambers to every room.
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Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the reporters chattering nervously.
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The only article of furniture in the antechamber was a wooden bench on which Pierre perceived two female patients awaiting their turn in the charge of a young hospitaller.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
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Patroclus was in constant attendance on the King and used to stand all day in his antechamber.
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The most succulent treats are left here by pilgrims who crowd into a small antechamber accessible only to the temple priests.
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Brydon placed Shevyn on a cushioned settee in the antechamber furthest from the door.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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First, an ante-chamber, at the farther end of which was a winding wooden staircase, behind which came the kitchen; on either side of the antechamber was a dining-room and a parlor panelled in oak now nearly black, with armorial bearings in the divisions of the ceilings.
Sons of the Soil
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The room looked to be an antechamber, there was a gas-light lamp in the centre of the room, hanging from a ceiling.
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There's no comparison," Steep said, still searching the ashes in the antechamber.
SACRAMENT
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However, in all but the most basic temples, other elements are present, at least a porch, and often an antechamber or antarala, a hall or mandapa, a dwajasthamba or a flag-mast, usually a pillar fixed outside the main shrine in the sanctum.
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She imagined silent antechambers, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets, with two tall footmen in knee-breeches sleeping in large arm-chairs, overcome by the heavy warmth of the stove.
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As soon they reached the narthex, a small antechamber built off of the western gate's wall, Rachel twisted the handle to the room, and the door groaned open.
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It spilled out, a sickly ribbon of yellow jaundice that crept from the antechamber in a ghostly thread.
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Echoing Myhrvold, we might charitably say that de Grey's proposals exist in a kind of antechamber of science, where they wait possibly in vain for independent verification.
The Speculist: July 2006 Archives
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The young man found himself almost jogging after the proud soldier as he marched down hallway after hallway, through antechambers, past armed guards and down stairwells into the depths of the ministry building.
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The family filtered through into an antechamber and the friends passed by us all one at a time, saying their piece.
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Of her influence we need no better evidence than the fact that her salon was called the antechamber to the Academie Francaise.
The Women of the French Salons
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People would halt the progress of whatever parley they were engaged in and turn to stop him in aisles and antechambers, demanding an instant jape or trick from him.
Knell Quarternion
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Evidently they still had a whole labyrinth of corridors and antechambers to negotiate before they reached the forgotten chamber with its prized relic.
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She arranged the room to resemble a Venetian antechamber, or private salon, and it contains many Venetian objects as well as paintings and pastels by James McNeil Whistler.
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The sculptures that would not fit into the great gallery were installed in the antechamber and salon of the large glass conservatory.
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The conservatory opened into a library, and from the library you reach the antechamber, thus completing the 'giro' of one of the prettiest houses in St. Petersburg.
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete
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This room, which you describe as a tomb, or an antechamber of hell, might have been an inner sanctuary, from which blessings might flow out over the whole neighbourhood.
Uncle Max
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Clearing the objects from the Antechamber was like playing a gigantic game of spillikins.
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When I was led into the antechamber to drop off my coat and bag before getting into the sterile gear, I looked to my left - and behind a partition was Gilly.
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Joanna spun around, fled into the antechamber, out into the snow.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The doors of this secret apartment, and the adjacent antechamber, were guarded by six deformed Nubian slaves, whose writhen and withered countenances formed a hideous contrast with their snow-white dresses and splendid equipment.
Count Robert of Paris
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We crept into an antechamber lined with red velvet and faced a woman who appeared the archetypical brothel madam.
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In preparing to write or speak upon a subject of which the details have been mastered, I gather, after some inquiry, that the usual method among persons who have the gift of fluency is to think cursorily on topics connected with it, until what I have called the antechamber is well filled with cognate ideas.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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They moved from vestiary to antechamber, copy room to meditation hall, breaking down doors when they found them locked.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
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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.
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It was to be held in the antechamber to the casino's strongroom, which lay directly beneath the dais in the centre of the main gaming floor.
Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners
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From inside the bedroom there came the sounds of industrious clearing up and the sound of water sluicing into a large tub filled the antechamber.
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London became the antechamber to Hades, lackeyed by idle dreams and peopled by mistakes.
The Voice in the Fog
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His cold, dark grey eyes scythed across the bare antechamber, coming to rest upon a small, wrinkled old hunchbacked man who had come through the door at the opposite side if the room.
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There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
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Discovered in August 1989, this tomb's main chamber had been robbed in antiquity, and yet its antechamber yielded the richest finds in terms of gold.
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Finally, she heard the sound of voices in the grand foyer and scuttled over to the door of the antechamber.
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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
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Following the sound, he passed through a small antechamber into the largest room he had yet discovered, and the most littered.
SACRAMENT
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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.
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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
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The hatch opened into a small antechamber that led into the main hall.
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There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
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When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
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Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
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Two female slaves were tending a small fire in a brazier in the antechamber, and when Burun entered they veiled themselves.
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A lone larger work hung in an antechamber.
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The antechamber which he entered was filled with silent N'pani.
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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The family filtered through into an antechamber and the friends passed by us all one at a time, saying their piece.
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The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber.
Ulysses
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After each lifetime they meet in the bardo, the antechamber to eternity, to have their karma assessed and a judgment made against them which will determine the nature of their next life.
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In the Antechamber leading to the Assembly of Iron, the Rune Etched Sentry's ability, Flaming Rune, does considerably less damage over time in both difficulty modes.
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The next small room, unified by the square format of the paintings and their palette of light green and blue, served as an antechamber to the final gallery.
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There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
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The main room was a rectangle with various antechambers and vestibules branching off down its length.
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On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, -- "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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Instead of following their way back to the waiting room they turned right and went down a flight of steps into an subterranean antechamber, filled by a long table laden with exotic foods and striking chinaware.
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Lovely because it suggests that there was a time before history began, when people hung around in a kind of antechamber waiting to be called forth to kick off the human story.
The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
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The main room was a rectangle with various antechambers and vestibules branching off down its length.
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The moment we stepped over the threshold, on the right hand of the passage we found ourselves ushered into what in other countries would be called the antechamber; the ground floor, however, was muddy and filthy, a large fire was burning,
John James Audubon
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Camp and king's antechamber and embassage and battle made the arsis and thesis of his poetry, and his poems are a picture of Edward III's age, accurate as if a king's pageant passing flung shadow in a stream along whose bank it marched.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.