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  • The linen-room closet, tucked behind the chimney, was about as far from the library schoolroom as they could find.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • The linen-room closet, tucked behind the chimney, was about as far from the library schoolroom as they could find.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • ONE morning in February, when I was helping Hannah look for her mothers wedding dress, Emmeline appeared at the linen-room door.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • ONE morning in February, when I was helping Hannah look for her mothers wedding dress, Emmeline appeared at the linen-room door.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • She kept the maids stirring, and the footmen to their duty; had an eye over the claret in the cellar, and the oats and hay in the stable; saw to the salting and pickling, the potatoes and the turf-stacking, the pig-killing and the poultry, the linen-room and the bakehouse, and the ten thousand minutiae of a great establishment.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • He explained to me that the place to which Gilberte had gone was the linen-room, offered himself to shew it to me, and promised me that whenever

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • With that apology for the veteran, Mrs. Drake led Magdalen first to the pantry, and next to the linen-room, installing her, with all due formality, in her own domestic dominions.

    No Name 2003

  • I imagined her behaving like that, at home perhaps, in the linen-room, with the young man whom I had seen escorting her along the Avenue des

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • Usually I spend a little time in the linen-room which adjoins the treatment-room sorting the clean laundry as soon as the patient is over the worst.

    A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963

  • Beyond were lavatories, linen-room, house-maid's room and every requirement of a well-ordered home.

    Peggy Stewart at School

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