Example sentences of "[art] servants [unc] quarters " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the family sitting-rooms and bedrooms were heavy with drapes and solid mahogany , the servants ' quarters in the attic were small and bare . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the old days — the good good old days — a member of the family would never even consider entering the servants ' quarters or the kitchens . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 7 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 10 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 11 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 12 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |
| 13 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 14 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 15 | The servants ' quarters ? |
| 16 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |