Example sentences of "[art] servants ' quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 2 | In his post-war writings authorial intention , banished to the servants ' quarters by Richards and the American New Criticism , was restored to a dignity it should never have lost ; and his abandonment of discipleship to Richards now looks with hindsight both belated and inevitable . |
| 3 | Whereas the family sitting-rooms and bedrooms were heavy with drapes and solid mahogany , the servants ' quarters in the attic were small and bare . |
| 4 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 5 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |