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[5] That the eldest was cruel & moreover that he always preferred the second, though he has never given the slightest hint & did not go near her at the Opera, not even in the crush-room.

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

At twelve o'clock, be in the little room behind the chimney-place of the big crush-room.

The Phantom of the Opera 1911

Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from a mad whirl of dancers in which he was caught for a moment, he at last entered the room mentioned in Christine's letter.

The Phantom of the Opera 1911

He wanted to dart forward, forgetting Christine; but the black domino, who also seemed a prey to some strange excitement, caught him by the arm and dragged him from the crush-room, far from the mad crowd through which Red Death was stalking ....

The Phantom of the Opera 1911

As Raoul once more passed through the great crush-room, this time in the wake of his guide, he could not help noticing a group crowding round a person whose disguise, eccentric air and gruesome appearance were causing a sensation.

The Phantom of the Opera 1911

I thought even the crush-room lovely, and the brilliant gaslight, the mysterious little boxes, with their red-velvet curtains, filled with handsome men and pretty women, which I think Lady Blessington describes as "rags of roues, memoranda books of other women's follies, like the last scene of the theatre; they come out in gas and red flame, but do not stand daylight."

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

He was in the pit and it was crowded; not a seat vacant anywhere, and many persons standing packed in the crush-room at the back.

The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892

Politics require the whole of energy, bodily and mental, during half the year; and leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush-room of the Opera at night.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

I promised her heartily I would not be guilty of letting our intimacy drop, and handed the ladies down to the crush-room, where I saw my father leading Lady Edbury to her carriage, much observed.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Compelled to think of them as not serious members of our group, he assisted at the crush-room exit, and the happy riddance of the beautiful cousins dedicated to the merry London midnights 'further pastures.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868