baignoire

Example Sentences

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She found no play too tedious, no entr'acte too long, no baignoire too hot, no tissue of incidents too complicated, no situation too unnatural and no sentiments too sublime.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

I sat alone and hidden at the back of a baignoire in the auditorium.

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

It consists of the following single and rather singular statute: "Il est expressement d�fendu aux gar�ons de permettre � deux hommes de se servir de la m�me baignoire."

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

"You mean the young lady below stairs, in a baignoire in a pink dress?" said Newman.

From The American by James, Henry