retiring-place

This room you will use as you please; no one will share it with you; and you need a retiring-place for a breath of rest when you can get it.

Daisy in the Field 1869

This room you will use as you please; no one will share it with you; and you need a retiring-place for a breath of rest when you can get it.

Daisy in the Field Susan Warner 1852

While I am reading he conducts the correspondence, and his great delight is to show me seventeen or eighteen letters when I come, exhausted, into the retiring-place.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841

When the king arose, Asaph Khan carried me with hint to his retiring-place, where we first translated the inventory of our goods into Persian, to shew the king an hour after.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784