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"Dressing room" Quotes from Famous Books

... debutante may receive with his wife, but his duty is more to see that all the women have partners, and that the chaperons are taken into supper. He also sees that the gentlemen do their duty as dancers instead of remaining in the dressing room to smoke and chat. The hostess does not dance at all, or if she does, it is usually late in the evening. She remains at her post at the door, welcoming guests and seeing that all shy men get partners and all the young girls have ...

— Book of Etiquette • Lillian Eichler

... exactly the same position every day during the show year. I'll pick out a place for you, and every morning when you come in you will find your baggage there. Let me see. I guess we'll place you up at the end, next to the side wall of the dressing room. You will be more by yourself there. You'll like ...

— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... curtain for the third act, Jack Travers worked his way back through the props to my dressing room.... ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... of detached attention, as if it were all a dream or something in which I had no personal interest whatever. Challenger sat at the centre table with the electric light illuminating the slide under the microscope which he had brought from his dressing room. The small vivid circle of white light from the mirror left half of his rugged, bearded face in brilliant radiance and half in deepest shadow. He had, it seems, been working of late upon the lowest forms of life, and what ...

— The Poison Belt • Arthur Conan Doyle

... of blood and dried somewhere. When the doctor had finished sewing and patching Bryce showered and dressed in a small dressing room beside the emergency ward, where he found his clothes hanging neatly in a ...

— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye

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