How To Use Parlour In A Sentence
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And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
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Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
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Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid.
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The house comprised a kitchen, a little hall, lower parlour, pantry, two cellars, a hall above stairs, an upper parlour and four chambers with cocklofts above.
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The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.
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Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney.
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The new parlour is capable of milking the cows in 50 minutes.
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Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
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The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
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The Mayor, Cllr John Walsh, welcomed the guests for coffee and biscuits in his parlour, describing the town as ‘the jewel of the North-west’.
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The growth and development of Munster is illustrated in a series of scale models found in the Stadt Museum, built round a tempting ice cream parlour and above shops.
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It has to be down to the tattoo parlour to check the age.
The Sun
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With the guilty discretion of a massage parlour, the gym hides itself above a parade of shops.
Times, Sunday Times
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He worked for a while in a funeral parlour, and then on a cattle ranch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rare is the folk album that is comfortable referencing the Neighbours theme tune alongside obscure Victorian parlour music.
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please give me a tag lin, or punch line for my beauty parlour which is named "angel" with a word girl in the line?
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it.
Sketches by Boz
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A parlourmaid's job is relatively easy, even more so than a housemaid's job and I was given more freedom and more responsibility.
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Hard drugs are peddled to misguided youth and more than a few backdoor ‘massage parlours’ are in operation.
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Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals.
Medieval People
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The arrival of the parlours coincided with the precipitous drop in Japanese fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those unable to attend were invited to the mayor's parlour to accept the gifts.
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The parlours of the hotels were well furnished.
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This included a chapel, bedrooms, parlours, and a dining area together with a hall where operettas, plays and musicals are produced annually.
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She duped a tattoo parlour in Frankfurt into providing its services without charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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It leapt to the ledge above and slid in front of the windows to the Mayor's parlour, where staff tried to grab it, but it was just out of reach.
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/[Page 394] /parlour is new-papered and painted, it should be done properly, and proper painting takes a prodigious time; but I will see somebody to-morrow, to speak at least concerning the outside.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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There seldom passed much talk between them: Linton learnt his lessons and spent his evenings in a small apartment they called the parlour: or else lay in bed all day: for he was constantly getting coughs, and colds, and aches, and pains of some sort.
Wuthering Heights
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Moll took a moment to try to decipher it, feeling like she was playing an odd parlour game of charades.
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These suites are decorated with period furnishing such as oriental carpets on teak, marble and tiled floors, and all have private parlours and dining areas.
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On that boulevard of the bagnios, she bought a small parlour house from Mattie Silks and began recruiting the most seductive brides of the multitudes.
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Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up.
Gatlinburg
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My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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There seldom passed much talk between them; Linton learnt his lessons and spent his evenings in a small apartment they called the parlour; or else lay in bed all day; for he was constantly getting coughs, and colds, and aches, and pains of some sort.
Wuthering Heights
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These suites are decorated with period furnishing such as oriental carpets on teak, marble and tiled floors, and all have private parlours and dining areas.
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There was a knock at the door, and a parlourmaid entered with the tea-trolley.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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It will mark the end of an era for the religious order of sisters, who 31 years ago set up the centre in the parlour of their convent.
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Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind – legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly.
Oliver Twist
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The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
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From the coal fire in the parlour to the outside privy, it was like stepping into a different universe.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not greet or talk to anyone. We went straight to the funeral parlour.
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[(Our superior had an apartment within her parlour, she called her auditory) 29.1 (; thither)] TJ
Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
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Cows are fed a total mixed ration and those yielding over 25 litres are fed concentrates in the parlour.
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He said there was a photograph of her in the mayor's parlour in Bolton Town Hall of her visit to HMS Dido, which was Bolton's adopted ship.
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He also plans to re-open the Parlour tea room, which is part of the complex, as a coffee and sandwich bar.
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Cohen saw potential in a beauty parlour where women could get make-up done, have eyebrows plucked or false eyelash extensions applied.
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They will about occupy three _cheffonier_ shelves; -- or what delightful volumes for fire-side shelves, or a "little book-room," or a breakfast parlour opening on
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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On the doorstep are canoeing and a medieval castle, as well as bookshops galore and an ice-cream parlour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Mayor and Mayoress will host a reception in the parlour for guests before the Remembrance Sunday service followed by lunch at the Artillery Barracks.
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I have been forced to fix a personal quota of funerals if I am not to be on the move to and from burials and funeral parlours all year long.
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Anyone watching television coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show this past week can't have failed to notice a splendid specimen of abutilon, an exotic small shrub also known as Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple and Indian Mallow.
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George supped with her, and the two of them sat matily in the parlour behind red curtains, and with a baize-covered parrot between them on the table, when the meal was over, George smoking, and Mrs. Bradley knitting a shapeless garment slowly and very badly.
St Peter's Finger
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'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.'
The Pickwick papers
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Liszt returned his attention to where Caroline was, but he saw not the girl, but an old parlourmaid of the queen.
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Please give me a tag lin, or punch line for my beauty parlour which is named "angel" with a word girl in the line?
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Thus came the parlour songs, which at first were a mixture of folky adaptations and pastiches of operatic arias; verses of gentle melancholy were set to simple melodies accompanied by an Alberti bass or arpeggios.
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The presentation took place at the mayor's parlour, in the Civic Offices, in Euclid Street.
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There is a hoary parlour game in which participants are challenged to name ten famous Belgians.
Times, Sunday Times
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I even got up early to play sims before school. then after school me and holly played till 9. haha woohoo. well my bathroom meter is a little low .. gotta go fill up green! nous parlour, ahkikiki * runs to the bathroom*
Poontang Diary Entry
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The old folk would still keep on with their whist in the parlour, and the young ones would play lant loo in the houseplace.
From the archive, 26 December 1903: A farmer's Christmas in the Dales
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That was how they wanted me to dress because it was a daytime parlour game.
Times, Sunday Times
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He led, I followed; he opened the door of a breakfast parlour -- "_Tenez, madame, voici le monsieur qui m'a renverse hier au soir_.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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There are always friends who are ready for a chat in the coffee shop, ice cream parlour or fast food joint around the corner.
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The ex-owner of a failed West Reading tanning shop-cum-tattoo parlour said he had huge amounts of drugs in his Whitley home because he was "disorganised".
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This meant that she greeted the LVA in the mayor's parlour, and then saw them leave to enjoy the boxing without her.
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Many households bought parlour pianos and needed music and songs to play and sing.
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Marianne Willoughby sat in her sun-drenched parlour, her face pale with shock.
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Cohen saw potential in a beauty parlour where women could get make-up done, have eyebrows plucked or false eyelash extensions applied.
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WHEN summoned to tea, Camilla, upon entering the parlour, found Sir Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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With all family hands on deck, by mid October the installation of the plant had commenced and by the end of January cows were being milked in the new parlour.
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The farm is down to clover leys for grazing and silage plus oats, wheat and beans for feeding out of parlour in a total mixed ration, with all cows receiving the same amount of feed.
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Here is a parlour game of political identification.
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He relied too much on metathetic parlour tricks and inconsistent sound changes for me to respect his academic judgment.
The Tower of Babel
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Funeral parlours should be licensed and an independent regulatory body appointed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another item of interest the team will inspect is a small silver-encased prayer book in the mayor's parlour - Queen Katherine Parr's Book of Devotions.
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I found myself in a small, sunlit parlour with bright floral curtains.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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Out on the town we played Space Invaders or PacMan down at our local video parlour.
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It also runs pharmacies, funeral parlours, solicitors, farms and even a car dealership.
The Sun
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They had indeed arrived in the dining-parlour of the mansion, where the table was superabundantly loaded, and where the number of attendants, to a certain extent, vindicated the sarcasms of the young nobleman.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
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The arrival of the parlours coincided with the precipitous drop in Japanese fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new parlour is capable of milking the cows in 50 minutes.
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It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood; its poetry is that of a pastoral New England before the motor car.
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This would involve combining the ground floors of the town hall and Wiltshire College into one open plan area, and demolishing the current stairway to the mayor's parlour.
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The Causeway farmer said since the new parlour was installed milk yields have increased by 180 gallons per cow and it is still rising.
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As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches.
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She has just had her legs waxed at the local beauty parlour.
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As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook.
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He worked for a while in a funeral parlour, and then on a cattle ranch.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the starboard were a number of guest rooms arranged in suites of parlour, bedroom, and bath, while at the crown of the arch was a large dining-room in which fifty persons could sit down to dinner comfortably.
L.P.M. : the end of the Great War
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She arranged her skirts decorously and, mere seconds later, the butler entered the parlour and presented Mr Brown-Lee to the group.
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I let go of her hand and she led us through to the sitting-room out behind the original parlour Sallinon had used as his storefront.
FOOLS GOLD
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The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour.
Waverley
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Everything is on one floor, so from where I sit I can see the locker room, a small parlour area, and a whirlpool, which fits a dozen comfortably.
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The only fan in Motherhouse is in the parlour and is meant for visitors.
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o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.'
The Pickwick Papers
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As well as housing all the council offices, except education, it also contained a council chamber, committee rooms and Mayor's parlour.
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The little front parlour, which is the old lady's ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yellow muslin; the table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees '- waxed, an operation which is regularly commenced every other morning at half-past nine o'clock -- and the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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The young librarian helped the fatigued-looking wine into the two glasses, where it lay as if thoroughly exhausted by the effort of getting there, and then languidly left the parlour, turning his bulging head over his shoulder to indulge in a pathetic _oeillade_ ere he vanished.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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There was a knock on the door and the parlourmaid Katie came in.
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There were domestic service agencies all over England who supplied scullery maids, kitchen maids, parlour maids, chambermaids, cooks general, cooks, butlers, housekeepers, nannies and companions.
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He found the restaurant just shutting, and Daddy apparently on the wing for the 'White Horse' parlour, to judge from the relief which showed in Dora's worn look as she saw her father lay down his hat and stick again and fall 'chaffing' with David.
The History of David Grieve
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He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, and built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop.
The History of Mr. Polly
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They are located at one end of the farmyard and are used for the purposes of a milking parlour, dairy, calf shed and granary.
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The roome, which was a low parlour, being well searched with candles, the top of my great boothose was found at a hole, in which they had drawne all the rest.
A Legend of Montrose
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She withdrew to the empty parlour, unlocking the door with one of her dress pins.
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But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city?
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Largely because of the legal grey zone in which they thrive, pachinko parlour operators are not listed on the stock exchange. The producers of the machines, however, are tipped to perform strongly.
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She told her name, and was shewn, by a little shabby footboy, into a parlour.
Cecilia
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Beauty parlour becomes hairdressing operation failure, how should the client demand due compensation?
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The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie’s little parlour.
Waverley
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Outside, Nell balled her hand in a fist and bravely knocked on the grand oak door leading into the parlour.
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Reading and parlour games such as charades are preferred.
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He was warmer to Gaullists, especially military ones, rather than the parlour variety ‘who poured oil on the fire while remaining in their slippers’.
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In a stuffy room on the third floor of an ageing hotel behind an ice cream parlour in a smart Lahore suburb yesterday sat the men who threaten to bring Pakistan to its knees.
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The plans include extending the tearoom into the milking parlour, relocating the milking parlour into another building, and improving the kitchen, visitor toilets, staff room and disabled access facilities.
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Outside, Nell balled her hand in a fist and bravely knocked on the grand oak door leading into the parlour.
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The Victorian fashion for turning parlours and libraries into museums of preserved flora and fauna spoke of a resistance to decay, a denial of mortality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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a very zealous friend to Government --- The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour.
The Waverley
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It includes houses with a parlour room - a dining room.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arrival of the parlours coincided with the precipitous drop in Japanese fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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As she panted towards her second floor apartment, she clenched her palms against the banisters, as she had done in the parlour.
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[Page 41] "Uppercross" the old-fashioned parlour is spoken of "with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the present daughters of the house were giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano and a harp.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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A neat parlour-maid received him in a comfortably-furnished hall and took his hat and greatcoat and magnificent bouquet.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
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Much of this money came from Japan's ubiquitous pachinko parlours, gambling shops frequently operated by ethnic Koreans.
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Each registers a distinct floral note — the lilies and gladioli for the funeral parlours, irises and tulips and birds of paradise for the wives of contrite husbands, pink and crinoline-white carnations for the velvet lapels of hopeful prom kings, thorny roses for the lovers and poets and perky daisies and mums and marigolds for the pick-me-ups and get-well-soons.
Virginity
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Nearly 200 residents visited the two-day exhibition at the mayor's parlour organised by developers Wainhomes last Friday and Saturday.
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It has an in-house tattoo parlour and cycle shop where all the bikes are made from recycled parts.
The Sun
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A factory worker's family spent a quiet evening at home, all dressed up, in a parlour choked with ornamental plants, under a great silk lampshade.
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It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood.
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They peered in at the malthouse, but saw only her mother and sisters; they peeped in at the parlour, but only her brothers were there.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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Only the funeral parlours will do well out of this for years to come.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Barbauld wrote the following lines on a scroll within a kind of wreath, which hung over the chimney, the whole parlour being decorated with branches of ivy, which were made to run down the walls and hang down every pannel in festoons, at a country place called Palgrave:
Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Above this parlour is a small room, whose low ceiling is supported by beams, which was, in all probability, Madame de Broglie's bedroom.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill-favoured jackanape, that was
Redgauntlet
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She duped a tattoo parlour in Frankfurt into providing its services without charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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So then he turns found to me, and says, "Ikey, put two mould candles in the back parlour, and charge 'em to this gen'lm'n's account," vich I did.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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The passage was so narrow that two people were a tight fit in it; and, were more than two in waiting, they had to be furnished with seats in the little parlour to the back, pokier, this, than even the surgery, and very dark — Richard called it the
The Way Home
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The elegant parlour features an entire mantlepiece and alcove made of marble that's more like a small sitting room.
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A parlourmaid's job is relatively easy, even more so than a housemaid's job and I was given more freedom and more responsibility.
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Vanstone dies, and Magdalen, disguising herself as a parlourmaid, penetrates the house of the trustee of his will to find the document which reveals the legatee.
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Modest storefronts sell everything from custom-made hats to bulk candy, and there are endless pizza parlours.
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To these may be added the calefactory, the parlour, or locutorium, the almonry, and the offices of the obedientiaries; but these additional buildings fitted into the general plan where they best might, and their disposition differed somewhat in the various monasteries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The craze for ferns and the craving for grubbing in rock-pools at the seaside, popularised by Gosse's engaging handbooks, went hand in hand with the plant display cases and marine aquaria that festooned countless parlours.
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Although the small massage parlour she ran from her home was not yet open, she headed downstairs in her dressing gown.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the rest of the family snoozed in a post-dinner stupor, I sneaked into the front parlour and helped myself to another glass.
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As a rule of thumb, it's hard to go wrong with classics like the parlour palm, dracaenas, rubber plants, aspidistra (I've always fancied a variegated one), cacti, succulents and the umbrella plant.
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He has more needle than a Brixton tattoo parlour.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston.
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She's got two girls employed in the ice-cream parlour, and one lubra.
A Town Like Alice
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Where the heroes of the Risorgimento met in the nineteenth century, this rather glitzily restored café with gilt pilasters and an immense chandelier combines a restaurant and ice cream parlour.
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The superfan immediately headed to a tattoo parlour to immortalise the autograph.
The Sun
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Doubtful which might be the clarionet – stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat.
Little Dorrit
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_ Show him into the Parlour -- _Senior tome vind sueipora; cete
The Busie Body
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They played practical jokes on each other in the open streets; they read the local newspapers to extract the feeblest of gossip; they had a game which they called polities, and which consisted in badging themselves with blue or yellow, according to the choice of their fathers before them; they affected now and then to. haunt bar-parlours and billiard-rooms, and made good resolutions when they had smoked or drunk more than their stomachs would support.
A Life's Morning
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It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood.
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He worked for a while in a funeral parlour, and then on a cattle ranch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ray Parlour committed four fouls himself before he got his first booking.
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Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.
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We've been busting our humps schlepping our out-of-town visitors to tattoo parlours and stockyards.
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At the appointed hour on the appointed morning, the Yorkshireman appeared in Great Coram Street, where he found Mr. Jorrocks in the parlour in the act of settling himself into a new spruce green cut-away gambroon butler's pantry-jacket, with pockets equal to holding
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
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John she at once attacked for his past coolness and unneighbourly conduct in abstaining from ever calling upon her; and he, when he had entered the parlour, and was met by Eleanor with just sufficient confusion and reserve to make her more than ever interesting, and with a warmth that quite overcame him, felt the old fire in his heart burning with redoubled fury.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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Already this has been a tour where attempting to explain the inexplicable has become a parlour game.
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As the Van Doren family play their favourite parlour game - trading Shakespearian quotes across the dinner table - an arriviste young lawyer watches, open-mouthed and clearly intimidated.
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Another reason for cows producing more is that the music may dull any bangs or other noises in the parlour, which might upset them.
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Indeed, in metropolitan districts, koban are necessarily situated near porno shops and pin-ball parlours.
The Perry Legacy
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A visit to the Mayor's parlour in the town hall provided just one of many cross-Atlantic experiences for exchange teacher, Miss Barbara Miller.
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Now, I will introduce to my readers a new game of parlour kayle-pins, that can be played across the table without any preparation whatever.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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Was this just a parlour game used by lecturers to involve the class?
TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
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He got a job washing dishes in a pizza parlour.
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But Mrs Lucas often spent some of her rare leisure moments in the smoking-parlour, playing on the virginal that stood in the window, or kippering herself in the fumes of the wood-fire as with streaming eyes she deciphered an Elzevir
Queen Lucia
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At one time she invited Bronson Alcott, one of the leaders of a similar movement, to preside over some conversazioni in her parlours, where he could elucidate his favourite subject.
Memories and Anecdotes
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Surgeons have called for the scrapping of a scheme designed to offer some protection against unscrupulous practices among clinics and beauty parlours that provide cosmetic injectable treatments, such as botulinum toxin and cosmetic fillers.
Latest headlines from BMJ
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In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.
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Two problems interfere: insufficient variety and the funeral parlour acoustic.
Times, Sunday Times
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He liked to think he was consorting with all sorts of men — so he beheld coalheavers in their tap-rooms; boxers in their inn-parlours; honest citizens disporting in the suburbs or on the river; and he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society.
The History of Pendennis
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“And now that you are come in, Mr Henry,” said the cross old woman, “what for do you no tak up your candle and gang to your bed? and mind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a’ the house scouring to get out the grease again.”
Old Mortality
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Its tone is one of parlour room titillation blended with out and out Lynchian weirdness - a fantastically inventive and darkly funny film that unsettles and unnerves the audience.
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He has more needle than a Brixton tattoo parlour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
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Katherine led the way out of the ballroom and into the drawing room across the parlour.
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He added: ‘It went really well considering we set up cameras in a milking parlour and only one cow piddled on someone.’
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In one, which I think they call his parlour, is a very antique cupboard; where, it is supposed, he deposited some precious part of his literary treasure.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
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As a result, tattoo parlours have for the past few months experienced a surge in business.
Times, Sunday Times
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The star was snapped with the cheeky garment on an outing to a Hollywood tattoo parlour.
The Sun
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She withdrew to the empty parlour, unlocking the door with one of her dress pins.
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He was warmer to Gaullists, especially military ones, rather than the parlour variety ‘who poured oil on the fire while remaining in their slippers’.
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But what of the more serious accusation - that he is, if not a parlour anti-Semite, certainly a writer who has given them succour?
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This east alley "was used as a passage between the church and the farmery, and the later Abbot's lodging; out of it also opened the parlour, chapter-house, and dorter door.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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He has more needle than a Brixton tattoo parlour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Victorian fashion for turning parlours and libraries into museums of preserved flora and fauna spoke of a resistance to decay, a denial of mortality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She spent her entire life shucking oysters at her mam and dad's Whitstable seafood parlour.
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Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage.
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Although rare, beauty parlour syndrome has been written about in case study reports in medical journals for more than a decade.
Times, Sunday Times
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A nurturer by nature, Olivia parked him in the most comfortable chair in the parlour and disappeared to the kitchen, reappearing several minutes later with a loaded tea tray in her hands.
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Let us find out what really happens, and we can do that by removing the laws that drive that activity underground - by removing the laws that the activity hides behind, such as the Massage Parlours Act.
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The beauticians at Montreal Barber & Beauty Parlour claim that, as men face more pressure and stress at work, the quality of their skin is degrading due to insomnia and hypertension.
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Through a parlour scented with incense, I stepped towards beautifully lit showcases, displaying collections of stainless steel and titanium jewellery.
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The wrong woman's body was cremated after an identification mix-up by a funeral parlour.
