| 单词 | parlor |
| 例句 | Earlier, while he was trying to fall asleep, Lazlo’s first thought was to make an elegant sort of parlor to receive her in if she came. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The two of them sat in Jack’s parlor and talked into the night while Jack cooked big plates of soul food, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato pies, and biscuits for us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When we had drained the Cokes, we went to the parlor to say our Hail Marys together for the first time since May had died. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hurried into the parlor and pulled back the curtain. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Sherry in the parlor before lunch,” Luke said amiably. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z When she went back in- side she heard voices coming toward the front hall, and she ducked into the parlor to hide. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s harsh breathing and the hushed voices in the parlor filled the silence. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The day after my father died, we drove to a South Side funeral parlor—me, my mother, and Craig—to pick out a casket and plan a service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You can carry her home for now. The funeral parlors are already full. It’s gonna be a while before we get to everybody. ” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I followed behind her at a very creaky pace until we were in her parlor, the door of which was even older and mustier than she was. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I finally found him standing in front of the beauty parlor, staring through the glass at a woman with a drier over her head. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Week after week, wherever he went—be it chess club, restaurant, cafeteria, or billiard parlor—there was the blue box. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I could hear them in the parlor and I clawed my hands against the wall. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Garfield invited them into his parlor, where they sang several spirituals for his family and neighbors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ambling out of the parlor, he came over to me, grinning, and touched my shoulder. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Harry lurked between the parlor and the hall so that he could watch the front door for the great arrival. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When we were pulling away from the funeral parlor I saw Peaches and her girls taking down their signs. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We meet in the spacious parlor room of the wealthiest lady in the group, who lives in a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I could tell she just got back from the beauty parlor because her hair was frizzed like she had just rammed her fingers into an electric socket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Winnie’s mother and grandmother sat plaintive all afternoon in the parlor, fanning themselves and sipping lemonade, their hair unsettled and their knees loose. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We stopped under the tree by the parlor window. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That first morning, Miss Susan told her to go and sweep the parlor and dust it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The name of the tattoo parlor,” he said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Then she turned and ran toward the funeral parlor in an odd dancing sort of way—skipping and clapping her hands and spinning around. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the parlor, a few teacups stood out white against the charred furniture. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z That afternoon of her arrival she sat in the front parlor of a boarding house waiting for a man named Franklin B. Sanborn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained that at midmorning, the tea-man arrived in the front parlor with tea on a tray and a number of cups. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The parlor was almost ready for the party. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But she did not seem displeased by his recovery, and clapped when he reached the bottom step, and led him into the parlor, there to rest and take tea. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Sunday morning before the convention, four of the five women gathered around a circular mahogany table in McClintock’s parlor to plan the program. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A woman seen in the mirror of a beauty parlor, half her hair wound neatly in curlers, the other half streaming loose in a tousled swirl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z TTie door opened directly into the parlor; there was no side entry. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z They went into a parlor where no one but Mrs. Cobb had stepped since the century had turned over. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Between the ringing doorbell and the booms, she had managed time for the beauty parlor and the sunlamp. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In the little parlor she could hear, without raising her eyes, Theodora’s small irritated tappings and the quiet sound of the chessmen being set down. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z When I used old words like parlor instead of living room, they thought I was trying to act superior. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She stood up and closed the parlor door in Ash’s face, and Ash heard Ana break into laughter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Serena’s parlor, with the dried flowers, on the Chinese carpet, his thin body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Men stand on comers, outside general stores, outside small banks, outside beer parlors with gray asphalt shingles on the walls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Had it right in the parlor with little sprigs of flowers painted all around the sides. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I walk up to the front parlor, open the French doors slowly so they won't squeak and wake up Dad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother sat in the parlor reviewing her housekeeping accounts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sounds of laughter came from the parlor as the cousins and their parents listened to one of the radio shows, and Ophie’s heart burned with the injustice of it all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They’d get tattoos in the parlors or propose to their sweethearts right on the sidewalk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I went to the parlor one afternoon, where Mother was sewing, and I said, “I have a terrific idea. Why don’t we have a ham this year for Thanksgiving?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then they’d process down the hall and into the parlor, and Mrs, Cobb would sit in her chair, Turner at the stool, and Lizzie on the floor against the horsehair chair, and Turner would begin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z After dinner, the conversation continues over coffee and brandy in the parlor, until an hour most of the guests deem extremely late but Tsukiko points out that it is comparatively early for the circus girls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But there was something else—little sounds from behind the closed parlor door. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Half went into the front parlor, and the other half into Lockton’s library. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam Claire shows me the beautiful breakfast veranda and the game salon and tea parlors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then I wouldn’t see him until we came in from school and he’d be laid out on his bed in the parlor room where Cecile slept when my father and uncle first took her in. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The ice cream parlor was packed with men in shirtsleeves and women who had gotten out their summer dresses early. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There were dramatic readings of poetry in the parlor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She had joined a group of his friends sitting around a filthy plastic table in a beer parlor off campus. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There are no people in the front room of the tattoo parlor, but the Pit is crawling with people, most of them drunk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A low parlor stove was built into a black marble fireplace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She has to remind her father to come out of the parlor for meals, though lately he has refused more and more often, barely leaving the room at all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It lay in the parlor for an hour. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before I blew out the candle I asked, “Why were you crying in the parlor today, before Becky and me came in? Did Madam hurt you?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a parlor from some other time, with faded love knots in the wallpaper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When May died, Ob and me had to talk business with the funeral parlor, religion with the preacher, and make small talk with dozens of relatives and people we’d hardly ever seen before. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z And just as in Mrs. Bedlow’s parlor, chairs had been pulled away from the tables and girls were chatting and sewing and reading in the living area. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Rosaleen and I sat in the rocking chairs in the parlor, while he stood before us holding a small notebook, ready to capture every word. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Was she going to be a schoolteacher or a librarian or maybe open a beauty parlor down there on Black Mountain Road? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter where she’s from,” said a girl with fancy curls that looked like they were done in a beauty parlor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z My theft complete, I descended the stairs as softly as I might and passed silently through the parlor towards the back of the house and escape. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It disturbed him that the plants thrived and filled the fenced patch with bloom like a funeral parlor, but would not set fruit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest girls serve pumpernickel and goose liver on the house’s last unchipped plates while the portly vice minister and his severe-looking wife inspect the parlor like lords come to tour some distasteful gnomish cottage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Wes remembered leaning back in the black, padded parlor chair and taking a puff on his blunt as the tattoo artist sealed the ink into his skin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The only room that really feels like both Henry and Bea is a small parlor on the second floor converted into a music studio. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wondered if she were back in the library or in Millsburg at one of the funeral parlors. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I washed up in the cold water bucket, quickly pinned on a clean apron, checked my kerchief was on proper and followed Becky to the parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Or would Mr. Tuttle have sat in our parlor and argued about it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Colonel Smiths face disappeared from the parlor window. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that, a flower shop, headstone engraver, and funeral parlor offered to sponsor me in national tournaments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a decadent atmosphere for me whose previous experience of dating had been mixers and parlor calls from boys at prep school. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “You will need to speak to Lord Ashton about that. I am much too ill to make any decisions,” Lady Constance replied, retreating back inside her private parlor. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Back in the parlor, I looked at my grandfather's Omega and saw that there was no time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The front parlor of the Big House was strangely quiet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z After a judge was awakened to administer the oath, Arthur and several witnesses gathered in his parlor. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I walked through the front door, weighing the cost of telling versus not telling, when I was saved from making a decision by Mother calling me into the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Leale gently encouraged her to leave the room and wait in the front parlor. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosaleen reminded me of the statue of Our Lady in the parlor, and I thought, If August is the red heart on Mary’s chest, Rosaleen is the fist. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear voices in the parlor, but not what they said, and I could tell that nobody was saying a whole lot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One afternoon when she was trying to put the parlor in order, Úrsula asked for the help of the soldiers who were guarding the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She wasn’t deaf or anything, like her brother, but I was hoping if Miss Love had any ears left, she would hear me and run sit down prim and proper in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In the laboratory, which adjoined the parlor, Dad, his movie cameraman, a nurse, and Dr. Burton were converting a desk into an operating table, and setting up the cross-section background and lights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Rush was never shy with his opinions, and standing there in the LeMaigres’ parlor, he boldly announced that the disease they now confronted was the dreaded yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Before leaving, he spoke to me privately in the small parlor he had converted into his study. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Caroline seemed intrigued by the idea through the entire length of tea in the cushioned, flower-wallpapered calm of their grandmother’s Cambridge parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nel went to the funeral parlor, but was so shocked by the closed coffin she stayed only a few minutes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She still carefully shows me the parlor, the large country kitchen, the formal dining room, all six of the bedrooms, two of them masters. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’d finished the hand, Inej had suggested they speak in one of the private gaming parlors to spare him the embarrassment of being fired in front of his friends, but Rojakke wasn’t having it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Past a new tattoo parlor and the Armed Forces Recruitment Center, then the Burger King, and, familiar and unchanged, Olsen’s Drug Store, and at last the yellow-brick facade of Wendell’s Funeral Parlor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Hazel worked as a helper in a beauty parlor for eight dollars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A week later Mrs. Meier was sitting in her parlor talking to a friend. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a visitor for you in the parlor, Ma says to tell you. A gentleman.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As I ran up the front steps, I noticed the parlor draperies were pulled to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then they would sit all afternoon in her parlor, playing cards and telling indecent jokes, and making the air foul with whisky and smoke. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Finally she led me to a small beauty parlor she owned, not far from Speed’s Grocery. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Soaking from the rain, without saying a word, they searched the house room by room, closet by closet, from parlor to pantry. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I have no memory of how we got out of church and into the parsonage next door, but in that overstuffed parlor, Bailey and I received the whipping of our lives. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked in the opposite direction to the parlor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which one?” she asked, and stared out the window toward the funeral parlor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z With the nursery door closed they realized all at once how much darker it had become, and Theodora said restlessly, “Let’s get downstairs to our parlor; I can feel those hills pushing in.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Christina announces that she and I will meet Al and Will at the tattoo parlor and drags me toward the clothing place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She made her way into the parlor while Mama went to the kitchen to put something together for supper, even though it would most likely be lean. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once inside, Booth sat on a sofa in the front parlor, then reclined. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally we were taken to Chinese restaurants or Italian pizza parlors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment the great portal swung open, and, as it closed behind him, a gentle voice sang out: “Right this way; I’m in the parlor.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wilson came running down the block from the beauty parlor where she worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My parents met them at the door, and I could overhear the bright chatter of introductions before Mother led everyone into the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Doctor Warren moved into the empty parlor of the inn away from the noisy group in the taproom—telling over and over of their great deeds. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My family’s old furniture had been shined up into an impressive dowry and placed in the front parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Wearing considerably more, Perry, one balmy evening in wartime 1945, found himself inside a Honolulu tattoo parlor having a snake-and-dagger design applied to his left forearm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturdays, she and Ofelia went to the beauty parlor and returned with identical helmets of girlish curls, which they protected fiercely with hairpins and kerchiefs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom had been called in from the beauty parlor and was still wearing the white smock with her name, FRAN, embroidered on the front. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, they put food on the table by teaching chess, giving exhibitions, operating chess parlors, selling chess sets, and writing books and magazine articles that received small advances. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He sat back in his chair in the Fosters’ spotless parlor, crossing his long, thin legs, and the suspended foot began a rhythmic jiggling. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you all right, Miss Love? You rather go in the parlor?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I enter an adjacent tea parlor to peek into the party room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She lifted me by the forearm, hurried me across the room through a door into a dark parlor, and plunked me down on a stiff cane-back chair. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I saw a honey jar back at the store, and the man said ...” “Oh, you’ve come for honey. Well, why didn’t you say so? Come on in the front parlor. I’ll get August.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandi and Mrs. Fanning found themselves in a pretty little parlor with a couch and lamps and a stack of perfumed towels. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I like to think of that moment in Mrs. Croft’s parlor as the moment when the distance between Mala and me began to lessen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They seized him, hustled him downstairs roughly, and confined him in the parlor. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls sat yawning in the parlor until two o’clock, waiting. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the parlor, a fire was burning in the hearth, but the room was still chilly. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I said again, looking first in the parlor and then in the kitchen. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When those places were not available, she would slip into the seldom-used parlor, or even up to her bedroom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t stop the reporter who was haunting the parlor, looking for more flesh to add to his story. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Lina disappeared into the parlor where we had all been delivered that first day by our mothers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The furnishings in the parlor had been savaged with an ax. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He looked around the front hall, took in all the signs of cleaning, ambled over and peered into the parlor, and put on an exaggerated mock expression of being impressed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I found it laid across a table in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When the parlors became too crowded, they moved to church halls, and it was not long before hundreds of people attended their speeches. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In the parlor, the women gathered, waiting for the contagion to enflame their chaste frames. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When he came back, long after nightfall, and she put him to bed and went through his pockets, she found nothing, or almost nothing, and she sank helplessly to the parlor floor and cried. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He imagined himself recounting his adventures to her, back at Wall, in front of a blazing parlor fire; but somehow all of his tales seemed a little flat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I guess I didn’t know enough about tattoo parlors to imagine one at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Music floated out of parlors where the doors had been flung open, and men and women lounged on couches in little more than scraps of silk and gaudy baubles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When we were so full that what we needed was a nap, we went to the parlor and sat with May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Uneasily, I remembered the faint sounds behind the parlor’s closed door and the terror I’d felt as I ran through the dark cellar. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z While the other girls pulled their chairs from the table and scraped them about to form little circles in the parlor area, Lyddie dragged herself from the table and up the stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At first, the Grimké sisters were invited by the American Anti-Slavery Society to discuss their experiences with slavery with small groups of women in private parlors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Prince Dain awaits her downstairs in General Madoc’s parlor. He commanded me to fetch her and not to mind whatever state of dishabille she was in. He said to carry her if I had to.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When she realized she was going to have to go downtown to the courthouse, Anthony excused herself and went upstairs to change clothes, leaving the flummoxed marshal waiting in the parlor. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The window frames in the front parlor leaked terrible during the storm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody had gone over the entire parlor with it, a big room with fringed throw rugs, an old piano with a lace runner, and cane-bottom rockers draped with afghans. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love had raised the parlor windows by time I got back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A woman in the beauty parlor waved to me and I shot up real close to the window. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “There’ll be plenty of room in the parlors and folks can mingle.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting in the parlor writing in the new notebook Zach had left at my door, setting down everything that had happened to me since Mary Day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie tried to keep her eyes from straying toward the copies of the weekly, which were thrown with seeming carelessness on the parlor table. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Walking to board the parlor car, we had passed a dining car toward which he jerked his head, “I used to work on that thing.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Later, Don Gustavo at the funeral parlor wanted us to switch them into something fancy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By then Mom had already gone to the beauty parlor and left me a pill to take and a note telling me to just stay indoors all day. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as I tried to stare Georgie down, I remembered those sounds in the front parlor again, the little rustlings and whisperings behind the closed door. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Halliday appears to have digitally re-created the funeral parlor set and then inserted himself into it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I bet if we go around to the parlor window we can see something.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The master and Madam moved their bedchamber to the downstairs front parlor and gave the library over to Colonel Hawkins, a high-ranking officer whose favor Lockton sought. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He would spend whole hours with Rebeca in the parlor listening to the music on the pianola. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He went through the darkened parlor with its low early evening spatter of conversation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If Grandmother raised the heat off their gambling parlors, or said the word that reduced the bail of a friend waiting in jail, they knew what would be expected of them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Spink led her into a dusty little room, which she called the parlor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “I’m glad to hear that,” said Nero, with the smile that had been known to render parlors full of ladies mute and dazed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The week before Christmas is often a quiet one in a funeral parlor, Shadow learned, over supper. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Her mother called it the ladies’ parlor, because it was where she entertained her friends, where they laughed and hailed each other by their nicknames—Art! Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Bobby went less frequently to sit in the Kidwells’ tiny, cozy parlor, and when he did go, Sue seemed not as welcoming. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A fat candle glowed on a parlor windowsill of a house on a corner, set there to guide someone home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire in the little parlor was bright, and Theodora sat down beside the coffee tray while Luke brought brandy from the cupboard where he had carefully set it away the night before. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I know she’s not in the kitchen or the living room or out at the pool and I just dusted fancy parlor number one and number two and vacuumed the bear. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When Dad came in the parlor to get Frank, he told Mother to send someone over to Aunt Anne’s for Martha. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach was taking her to the beauty parlor to have her singed hair cut off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Angelo’s taking some cough medicine,” Santa said as she returned to the parlor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Theirs was the Cadillac of clubhouses, sporting several parlors and a poolroom, a bounty of boxing gloves, baseball team jerseys, bats, and cleats, all paid for by their political patron, Frank Ragen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I left the parlor to the accompaniment of the inviting clash of crockery and the light tinkle of teaspoons, and went upstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z About two-fifteen she entered Minnie Franken’s beauty parlor, stayed an hour, and came out with her hair pinned up in tight curls and a silk scarf around her head and tied under her chin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, my heavens!” a voice shouted from the parlor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the parlor a fireplace burns warmth into the long Ohio winter. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny could see that a group of them were playing at cards in the south parlor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This beer parlor has a dingy red carpet and cheesy black tables and plastic-upholstered chairs and scant lighting, and reeks of car ashtray; the other beer parlors we drink in are similar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even more than the movies, Dad liked the shows that we staged once or twice a year in the parlor, for his and Mother’s benefit. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Violet didn’t know anything about the girl at first except her name, her age, and that she was very well thought of in the legally licensed beauty parlor. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was first getting to know her we were in a viewing room at the funeral parlor looking at a new line of cigar-shaped caskets that were called “Time Capsules of the Future.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They sat about in the parlor, as they had the night before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Men and boys who were already in the fields irrigating looked up, laughing, and the women of Milagro watched O. J. come and go from their front doorsteps or parlor windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before, when you were in the parlor of my mind, I only had one or two things to offer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They built an ice cream parlor where the old one was. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The table that had once belonged to Stanton—the one where the Declaration of Sentiments had been prepared—now sat in Anthony’s front parlor. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the stairs, I stole a quick look at the parlor’s closed door. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Grandma and Ruth were out getting things done that needed to be done, going to the funeral parlor, the church. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Fudge strode out of the parlor and Harry stared after him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mother and Father were sitting in the parlor with the door open. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “By golly, I’m shore glad to see you folks!” he said, ushering Miss Love toward the parlor door and ignoring me on the davenport in the hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was kitchen and parlor with a corner for spinning and weaving. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When he looked up, he saw a curtain move in one of the parlor windows and a glimpse of Mr. Crane’s long, sharp nose and close-cropped white hair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm in a beer parlor, drinking ten- cent draft beer, with the other students from Life Drawing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Down you go,” the sour aunt said, “down to the parlor. I'll be right along, once I've prepared your cure. But whatever you do, be quiet. You'll be very sorry if you wake my brother.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A servant showed them into a little parlor and brought them coffee. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Ash slid back into the parlor before her father turned around, and she tiptoed to the front window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He came into the parlor, and when he saw that she was up, he smiled and whispered, “Good! You’re awake. Come on—you can help me catch some fish for breakfast.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner could see that Lizzie was annoyed when he came into die parlor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There was a huge sugar maple in front of what must be the parlor door, and another at the porch, which, from the presence of churns and cooling pans, must lead into the kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the horses stopped, Mr. Birdsong got down from the driver’s seat, went in the house, and asked everybody to leave the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z An elderly couple swept up broken glass and debris along the sidewalk in front of their barbershop/beauty parlor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He carried Robin in and out of halls and chambers, kitchen and parlor, cloisters and outer court; through refectory and almonry, stopping, as always, in the chapel to say a prayer. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In the corner of the parlor I saw a grand piano with its top down, piled with papers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We heard the piano start up in the parlor, a limpid, haunting melody; Harry had been pressed into playing for our visitors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In those days Greek immigrants were beginning to use funeral parlors, but Sourmelina insisted that the viewing be held at home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She tried the garage, the parlor, and the family room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Me and Papa helped carry him out, and rode with him to the big old white-columned funeral parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Halliday now stands at the front of a funeral parlor, next to an open casket.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After the film was developed he put it in the projector which he kept in the parlor and showed us what he had done. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z So my daughter and I are alone in this crowded beauty parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Stood there smiling and did not put his sample case down until the hostess, Alice Manfred, came and told him to come on in the parlor. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The front room, or parlor, is not wasted either, waiting for a wedding reception to be worthy of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The limousine from the funeral parlor would be arriving in thirty-five minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Miss Love had hardly sat down on the daybed in the hall before she hopped up and said maybe we ought to bring the parlor rug in out of the sun. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When we came into the funeral parlor there was Big Joe, lying up front in his casket. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In Hilly’s parlor, a portrait of a Confederate general hangs eight feet tall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He fitted the revolver into a hip holster, shouldered the rifle, and ambled down a hall to the parlor, which was dark except for the flickering television screen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Neil came over most evenings and sat with June in the parlor while the rest of us watched The Fugitive on television in the den. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they were seen at a beer parlor, Ojiugo wearing Nicholas’s large white shirt and nothing below, and Nicholas wearing a pair of jeans and nothing above. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the boudoir and the drawing room, the parlor and the conservatory, the doors and windows were closed, the draperies pulled together, and the darkness back again. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z That’s why Ophie was tensed in the parlor, waiting to see if the cousins would descend upon her like one of the seven plagues the pastor back in Darling always talked about. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A young blond woman I’ve never seen before stands in the parlor, dressed in the clothes of a shopgirl or store clerk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As long as Miss Lilian stayed in the parlor, she had no way to watch the terrace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I was thanking my stars that I’d learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, Kennst Du Das Land, like a big bumblebee. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The only nice room was a parlor on the first floor, which the Huangs used to receive guests. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z From these she made patterns, cutting and sewing silk flowers that she arranged in the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z They lurched so wildly around the parlor that Mother feared for the very pictures on the wall. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I followed her, looking over my shoulder at the parlor door, terrified I’d see it slowly open. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Perilee waved me inside her warm house—a real house, with two doors, a bedroom, and a parlor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They go up to the parlor level, put on their coats. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The funeral parlor vanishes, and the scene changes once again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He fumbled his way back to the parlor and reached around for the organ stool. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Then, after breakfast, after Mrs. Dudley’s entrance at ten, they came without comment, following one another silently, to the little parlor, and the doctor took his position before the fireplace. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He stood, put his hands out in front of him, and groped his way across the parlor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Mrs. Platt’s circumnavigation of her supper table completed, she began to revolve around the parlor, the plates being lain on the mantelpiece or the gaming table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z That action, and a related suit against the ice cream parlor brought by Moore, sparked a six-year battle to integrate the parlor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After we had completed the initial series of tests, she took us one by one into the parlor for personal interviews. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z We went into the parlor, and the men gathered about His Lordship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What you’re doing now is listening to me, in the parlor of your mind, but also speaking to yourself, thinking about the parts of me you like or the parts that aren’t funny enough. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It seemed much too fancy to have in a house, and Ophie thought of the plain polished wood floor in Aunt Rose’s parlor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z On Tuesday and Thursday evenings they commandeered half the parlor of Number Five and hired their own teacher. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then there was a tap on the door of the parlor. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” Eleanor said, but the door she chose led onto the narrow passage to the little parlor where last night they had sat before a fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In the hall, I see that there are more knights here than I am used to, coming in and out of Madoc’s parlor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Etta had been at the kitchen sink, and from there, looking through the parlor, she saw him watching her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A lot of them were time-sharers like stewardesses or nursing students, or guys running dispatch for gypsy cabs and escort services or telephone rigs like astrology or phone-sex parlors. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed the ice cream parlor, where I knew I was never allowed to go. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain came on gray and cold, pattering with hard, metallic fingers at the panes of Mrs. Cobb’s parlor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He stands in the parlor of Children’s House, trying to absorb it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The corporal picks up a book from the parlor table—a children’s book about a talking train—and turns every one of its pages before dropping it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Still, the music brought joy even as the notes evaporated, and playing a rag exhilarated everyone to the point of jumping around the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Johnny and a parcel of boys brushed the deck until it was clean as a parlor floor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He could sit in Herb’s parlor rocking chair, and rock and think. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor, listening outside the parlor door, heard the small irritating noises of Arthur settling down to be quiet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z To make arrangements, as they say in funeral parlors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I turned and forced myself to walk calmly into the parlor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Toting the desk into the parlor, I saw that Miss Love had laid the big Toy family Bible on Granny’s loveseat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “No,” Tara says, now unsure if she remembered to bring the card, or if it is still sitting on a table in her parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The businesses here are hangers-on, relics from about twenty years ago—a sad and very old department store, a shoe store that smells like mothballs, a toy store, a candy shop, an ice cream parlor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Nearby was a pile of dusty ragged sheets that Granny had kept draped over the upholstered parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The old saying is, first the kitchen, then the parlor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z How was Granny going to stay all around Miss Love if she got new parlor draperies? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s a parlor, the kind with a spider and flies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Ash had been sent up to bed, but she had come back downstairs to ask her mother a question, and when she heard her father’s voice, she hesitated in the hall outside the parlor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove the rest of the way to the tattoo parlor in silence. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Like she says one time, she says, ‘I’ve knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor an’ a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they’re running a parlor house.’ Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z At the funeral parlor a few days after, I knelt with my relatives during the rosary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at my face in the beauty parlor mirror. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chelsea says some teenagers came here one night and saw Miss Willis looking out the window of the front parlor,” Lissa went on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Now, mix me my medicine. The beauty parlor was a zoo today.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark rooms grow darker: the parlor needs a struck match to see the face. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the bedrooms, water closet, and winter parlor were fully enclosed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t want it scraped off. I want Camp to be reminded how dumb he is every time he comes in this parlor. Will, I cain’t bear to think I’m married to somebody that stupid.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Armpit looked out at boarded-up buildings, liquor stores, bars, and tattoo parlors. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Look, we need to get to the bottom of all this. If neither of us are in that parlor, they’re going to come looking. I’ll cover for you as long as I can.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Didn’t seem to matter—once more she took me by the hand, and this time led me to a small parlor where she had a fire going, and a kettle on the hob. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Miss Whitlaw thanked us for the apples and graciously asked us to sit in her good parlor chairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the grand preparations, the hours of ladies in beauty parlors, the hundreds of thousands of new and delicate ball gowns, the spike-heeled satin shoes a passing out might sully. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fudge marched Harry along the narrow passage after Tom’s lantern, and then into a small parlor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Truth was I didn’t know what a divining parlor or a den of iniquity was but you can bet I planned to find out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The day after I checked in with Davy I walked down to a pizza parlor and called Dad from a pay phone. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z With Prudence gone and the parlor congested, Amelia was often in the room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after this, I heard the slap and slam of sash weights as SanJuanna threw open the parlor windows beneath my room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We sat in the parlor and looked at each other. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now you go into the parlor, and I’ll send ’em down to you,” with which somewhat involved reply Hannah vanished, chuckling ecstatically. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He was left-handed, and it always fascinated me to see the way he handled things, like a street magician’s parlor tricks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I was expecting to be introduced to a proper Welsh lady and sip tea in the parlor and make polite small talk until the time seemed right to break the bad news. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Violet had the nerve to put it on the fireplace mantel in her own parlor and both she and Joe looked at it in bewilderment. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see right into old parlors and kitchens, and imagined the people who had lived in them the day their world changed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now the hot-dog stands, the ice-cream parlors, the curiosity shops, deerskin-moccasin-and-glove places, were all shuttered and closed, many of them with cards saying “Open Next Summer.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She invited them to sit in the parlor while she called her mistress. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The flower tree by the parlor window wasn’t dark, but the thick trees were. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That night after supper, Aunt Loma, Uncle Camp, us Tweedys, and Grandpa sat in the parlor with the remains and the visitors. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The undertaker came again to report that Johnny was at his funeral parlor and was being fixed up fine and would be brought home that evening. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad's tone of voice makes us all rush for the parlor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I don’t think that he would like me driving illegally to a tattoo parlor or anyplace else, for that matter. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Vivian insists that she take an antique rolltop desk from the parlor and set it up in the bedroom across the hall from hers so she can study for finals. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Hoagie shops, pizza parlors, things like that,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Up until then I had never been particularly disturbed about seeing a corpse—even when I’d have to sit for an hour or so at a funeral parlor when some relative had died. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Ophie tried to follow the cousins out of the parlor, but Aunt Rose stopped her with a heavy hand on her shoulder. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Turning to me, she said, “Dare me to open the parlor door?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z While he makes occasional comments that she should be practicing more, for the most part he ignores her, spending his time alone in the upstairs parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She spoke as quietly as she could, feeling every eye in the crowded parlor turned their way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvetsoft, diamond-gem beauty parlor! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On New Year’s Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of ‘getting ready for the party’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Something decorative and permanent and occasionally useful, yes, but I found it dull and quiet work, suitable for a rainy day with only the monotonous ticking of the parlor clock for company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Bailey finds himself in a room that reminds him of his grandmother’s parlor, only smelling less like lavender. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The parlor was a bit bigger than a big wardrobe and stuffed with museumy stuff. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad came into the parlor, dressed like an Alp again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The front door slams; the children toss in their beds; Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As the bearers shuffled along through the tight passageway, they passed the parlors and stepped into the back room. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce, but they ate sitting about in the parlor instead of around a table. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His office was in Staten Island in a two-family firetrap just four blocks away from the ferry stop and only one block south of a supermarket, three beauty parlors, and two corrupt druggists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “And a private parlor, please, Tom,” said Fudge pointedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s ten years since Dad took over the neighborhood pizza parlor from Uncle Tony. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come off it, Miss Cayla. I can see Mr. Crane up there in the parlor.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Back home, the idea of French had seemed like a parlor game anyhow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Darwin would hold forth for hours at a time at the dinner table and in the parlor afterward with his children and any company as captive audiences. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She steps out into the hall unnoticed, slipping out of sight into the shadowed library across from the parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z From her parlor window, Susan Kidwell saw the white cortege glide past, and watched until it had rounded the corner and the unpaved street’s easily airborne dust had landed again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As they were passing a funeral parlor, Santa stopped to talk to one of the mourners standing out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman in the apartment below, who had a helmet of beauty parlor blue hair, had been complaining to the super since the day the family moved in a few months ago. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She informed me that there was a kitchen at the back of the house, accessible through the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It did still have several churches and a few beauty parlors, but they were rarely open. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were starched cream-colored lace curtains for the windows, a table with a marble top for the center of the room and a three-piece green plush parlor suit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The last Sunday in October, she waited in the parlor for Lizzie, too shaky to stand in the cold. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The parlor door was shut where Granny was, and I could see the flickering glow of lamplight under the door as I walked down the cool dark hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Daughters of Mary showed up each day just before lunch and sat in the parlor with May through the afternoon, telling stories about her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom leaves to get ready for her ten o'clock Introduction to Literature class, and I grab a pen and paper and go to the parlor the minute she's gone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She’ll go just long enough to save money to fix up her mother’s house and add on a room for her own beauty parlor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Well, the Fourth of July was hot but the undertaker’s parlor was air-conditioned. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm about four feet away, looking at them through the French doors that open to the front hall from the parlor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s going to the beauty parlor to get her hair done. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When we get inside the tattoo parlor, I can see exactly why Emery always talked about this place like it was magical. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The man in the yellow suit came into the sunlit parlor. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora got a brief look at the parlor, which was modestly furnished; after Martin’s warnings, the morning light through the window quickened her step. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He’s out in the parlor right now looking at TV. Every afternoon, as right as rain, he looks at that show where them kids dance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then heavy footsteps that ran from Pa’s bedroom into the parlor room where Uncle Darnell slept. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z When Francie went into the parlor, she passed through the bedrooms shuddering and with her eyes shut. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved into the hall and at the door of the parlor she paused, as always, listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned down the passageway to their little parlor and sent the door swinging open with a crash. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She cast about the parlor for two free chairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Before dinner they had ransacked the other downstairs rooms for comfortable chairs and lamps, and now their little parlor was easily the pleasantest room in the house. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Mother called in a cool voice from the front parlor, “Calpurnia, dear, there’s no need to shout. Mrs. Purtle is visiting. Come in and say hello, darling.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Ash saw them lying on the hall table before Lady Isobel took them into the parlor to read on her own. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Boy,’ he said to Johnny, ‘Colonel Smith has a letter to go to Milton. Please go to the parlor and see him or Lieutenant Stranger about it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So he sat for hours in the Lornes’ sunny parlor, the books about him stretching to the ceiling. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the good parlor, where I’ll serve the tea. The drawing room is upstairs. We’ll clean up there later. Open them windows.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The scowl on her dark brown face made it clear that she’d sensed trouble and had come into the parlor after entering the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Moments later, General Grant walks into the parlor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z When she had left the parlor the girls looked at each other and raised their shoulders in bewilderment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, the five of us selected to give our tonsils for motion study assembled in the parlor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every household was a drinking parlor of some sort; those that weren’t had neighbours that were. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s lying in a bed in the front parlor, the window blocked with a black sheet, no sign of light. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew one day I would go back into the parlor when no one was around and touch the Lady’s heart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were back in the small parlor, warm and almost sleepy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt had to take her down to the grown-up beauty parlor but they couldn’t do a whole lot with it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “To what I came here to tell you! The ambulance just arrived and now we have a stranger in the funeral parlor,” she said excitedly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He placed the tray on a table between Fudge and Harry and left the parlor, closing the door behind him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Fifi, there to meet us at the airport, is a jangle of bangles and a cascade of beauty parlor curls held back on one side very smartly by a big gold barrette. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Absolutely right,” he said, and we promenaded slowly around the house on the walk, passing the parlor window where three curious heads swiveled after us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I picked up the other one, and followed her through the parlor and into the kitchen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A funeral parlor was the only place large enough that Brother James X could afford to rent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She had only to push open the door to the parlor to realize that her absence had been longer and more destructive than she had imagined. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z That divining parlor looked to fit the bill. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Now, yes. She is in her private parlor.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then Mom and Mrs. Van Dorn come down the back stairs with the blanket, and we all follow Dad back to the front parlor, me still lugging the oscilloscope. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The beer parlors are divided into two sections. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d noticed that the lakeside town up the road didn’t have a decent ice cream parlor. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Joey from the pizza parlor and the guys he worked with there and the customers who made small talk and left small tips. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The bridge table is set up in Hilly’s antebellum- style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His tree frog lived in the parlor, while his snapping turtle could be found tied to the laundry tub. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Back in the parlor with nobody talking, Loma had had time to consider the situation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a triumphal procession, all pointing and all saying at once, “Look there! Look there!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The door to the front parlor was closed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Found the sound of soulful music echoing from churches, parlors, or someone’s living room window. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Though the undertaker clearly disapproved, they toted Uncle Camp into Aunt Loma’s little parlor as if he had a right to be there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He went down the hallway and stood in the door to the parlor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “August is with Sugar-Girl in the parlor. She showed up crying. Something about Otis using their life savings to buy a secondhand fishing boat.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So after dinner the dads are in the front parlor with the French doors closed, leaning over a big round table, each scribbling away on pads of yellow paper, spinning out theories like madmen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze found a spot farther ahead, in front of a beer parlor, and he eased the car in. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “So how did you get the black Mary statue in the parlor?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Decades later, she still vividly remembered entering the darkened parlor in their home and finding the mirrors and pictures draped in white, a mourning custom of the time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She leaps from the sofa, dances around the parlor like a wild one and runs into the kitchen to douse herself with water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z All over London, seances were being held in parlors and living rooms and at dining tables. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Doors slammed, there was a landslide on the stairs, and we started skidding into the parlor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Meet you in the back of the funeral parlor. But if you plan on looking at this guy, bring a box of tissues because of your nose problem.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Joe was talking to one of the girls in the parlor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She seemed as bored as I was with all the polite talk in that parlor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Anyway, she died in the house—in the front parlor, where she slept because she got too old to climb the steps to her bedroom. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There was, first, a reception in the parlor, animated with the same frisson of excitement that accompanies the tumbling of acrobats in high spaces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Frank, Bill and Lillian, lying flat on the parlor floor and peeking through the doors, bore witness to the proposal and to Anne’s none-too-original rejection. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias had woken bound and tied to a chair in what looked like some kind of gambling parlor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Gitney, one night, called me away from my new duties serving refreshments in the parlor; he instructed that I was to come and see him in the forbidden chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Go into the parlor and dry yourself before the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She gave him a brief explanation and then led him into the parlor and introduced him. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton took charge, making the back parlor of the Petersen house his field office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the doctors, her mother, even her coworkers at the beauty parlor finally persuaded Felicia to send Ivanito to boarding school. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there were houses like Desdemona and Lefty’s, with an overstuffed parlor, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a backyard privy with a European toilet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Like the rest of the parlor, the curtains were a bit dusty and a bit worn, but well loved and comfortable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z With his lower lip protruding and his hands hanging down to his knees, he shuffled up and down the parlor floor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z So I didn’t like to talk patterns and recipes and pour tea in the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There he sat, that Sunday, in Florence’s tiny, fragile parlor, a very rock, it seemed to the eye of her confusion, in her so weary land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Tristran hurried into the parlor and informed Mr. Brown that he would be off now. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I could walk out of that divining parlor right then and be done with it all. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Lizzie grabbed a ginger ale and pried the cap off, and together they went back into the parlor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “All the people—men as well as woman—who work there are. As a matter of fact, the Vietnamese appear to own fingernail parlors all over Florida. They do good work.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was laid out in the parlor beside the box of letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Brown just like me, with shiny, wavy hair like the ladies that come out of the beauty parlor on Saturdays. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z There was a horrific crash in the parlor as the hooks that held up the heavy draperies flew off the wall and landed on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie and Logan got married in Nanny’s parlor of a Saturday evening with three cakes and big platters of fried rabbit and chicken. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Because of the tight quarters—the whole house would have fit in Aunt Ivy’s parlor—the bed had been hinged to the wall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ash stood up and left the cold parlor, and went slowly to the kitchen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed him down to the parlor, where we kindled a fire for the ease of the academicians, who were retiring from the experimental chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He asked me a few questions, then stalked off to the funeral parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He not only didn’t pitch Mr. McAllister out, he shook hands nice as you please, saying where you from and why don’t we go set down in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Inej glimpsed peacock feathers in the parlor, and her heart stuttered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Colin, who is from England, tells us about pubs, where there are fireplaces and you can play darts and stroll around and even sing, but none of that is allowed in beer parlors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I hadn’t yet pressed my hand to the black Mary’s heart in the parlor, and I was too afraid to say all this without having done at least that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She is a sophisticated lady with silver hair freshly teased at the beauty parlor and manicured nails painted red. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Harry was halfway along the passage to the bar, which was now very dark, when he heard another pair of angry voices coming from the parlor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He heaved a porch chair through a parlor window, leaped in after it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The parlor car, packed with businessmen behind their newspapers, commuting homeward after their workdays, was electric with Malcolm X’s presence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We did, and then she decided we should place the parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When the meal was over, the three male members of the family settled in the parlor to watch a televised basketball game. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We quitted the scene, leaving behind us a toppled parlor on the dirt street, table flung with arms wide, clock facedown, chairs jumbled on the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mother lit the parlor lamps, I shoved my handiwork away and dashed out the front door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Salinas had a small ice company, not large but enough to supply the few houses with iceboxes and to service the ice-cream parlors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The next day a messenger came to deliver an invitation stamped with the royal seal, and Ash hovered in the doorway to the parlor as her stepmother unfolded the letter and read it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Seattle and in Sequim, people huddled around radios in their kitchens and parlors stood and cheered when they heard the final salvo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "And he said not to disturb anything in the parlor." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The interior re-created the atmosphere of a classic ’80s pizza parlor and video arcade in loving detail. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She knows several, including her own brother, who say they've seen Miss Willis looking out the parlor window. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Hurrying in, I saw they’d pushed all the parlor furniture back against the walls, Miss Love had put on a new dance record, and by golly she was teaching Grandpa the turkey trot! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That night, while her father and stepmother and stepsisters sat together in the parlor, exclaiming over the gifts he had brought them from Seatown, Ash slipped away from them all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see her at the funeral, a shoddy, low-cost affair held in the basement of some dubious funeral parlor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fleming snapped to attention in the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The horse even had his own parlor game, the first of at least nine. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They came up, hand in hand, from the other side of the Wabash tracks and scrambled aboard the open platform at the back of the parlor car. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We pass grand ballrooms and glass solariums and ornate parlors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They were ushered into the parlor and again served tea. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Beatty, who wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had her hair done at the beauty parlor over in Winnemucca every week, told Mom she needed to discipline her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Plus I had seen Mr. Huffer’s name on the list of people who had bought 1080, and he threw funeral parlor gunk and dead rodents into his trash cans, which were emptied at the dump. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her aunt welcomed him cordially, and in a few moments put her head in at the parlor door, her understanding glance taking in the two silent young people. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He does a round through the parlor and dining room, and then downstairs to the kitchens to make certain everything is in order. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I take the box, trot down to the parlor, scoop up all Dad's notes and diagrams plus the information sheets about the electric blanket, and toss them into the box. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby was asleep in the nuns’ parlor, the room where they received visitors, but Sister Fenella said it would be all right if he was very quiet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z My mother asked, nervous-like, “You want us to all go sit in the parlor, sir?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As summer advanced, the heat came heavy and damp, and Ash sweated through her day's work while her stepsisters sat crossly fanning themselves in the parlor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hattie and Olive were with her in the rear parlor that faced the garden. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He checked the directory and dialed a long-distance call through to the biggest beauty parlor in New Texas City. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, Lee marches up the front steps and takes a seat in the parlor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A parlor with simple but tasteful furniture, things she had seen in the white shops of South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, you can wait here in the parlor, uh...how is it that you pronounce your name, darling?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He would sit in the parlor, sometimes reading, sometimes sitting with his eyes closed, for as long as I would play. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I cradled Jackie, and she put her head on my shoulder as I walked around the parlor. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In Nsukka, he had been the most popular student on campus; his beat-up Volkswagen Beetle parked outside a beer parlor lent the drinkers there an immediate cachet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Do you think they parked their tandem bicycle at the mustache-wax parlor?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I slipped into the parlor and picked up my project, a pathetic pair of socks I’d started back in October when Charlie enlisted. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Just him and her, Mama, in the parlor. He prayed and preached a sermon and they sang hymns and all.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Freeman brought in the necessities and she earned extra money cutting poker games in gambling parlors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Helen said she was sixty-eight years old, old enough to be my mother, but Mrs. Croft insisted that Helen and I speak to each other downstairs, in the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She left the table and almost ran from the room, and Theodora ran after her, laughing, down the corridor and into the little parlor, where Luke and the doctor stood before the fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z My mother was still in the parlor with Mrs. Purtle, pouring tea. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was in this very parlor where Noris had begun receiving callers that the group gave themselves a name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, a blazing glare so thorough and remorseless that even in the Fosters’ parlor, with curtains drawn, it seemed an actual presence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "A pizza parlor," I replied, pretty much stunned after his monologue topped off my last two days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Friday morning, when my first week’s rent was due, I went to the piano in the parlor to place my money on the ledge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At three o’clock that afternoon, in the early hours of the first heavy snowstorm of the season, I greet Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen in Mrs. Murphy’s parlor, with Mr. Sorenson and Miss Larsen standing by. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The next time the psychologist came out from New York, she sat us at intervals around the walls of the parlor, with books on our laps to write on. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your first clients have arrived in the parlor. Tea has been served." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There I was, right in front of the parlor door, and I knew that was the room where she died, and the voice kept telling me to open the door. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z And though Mama wasn’t the kind to ask for things, I’d heard her tell Queenie she was go’n see if her Pa would let her swap our mismatched parlor furniture for Granny’s nice parlor suit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Someone was playing the piano in the parlor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She heard murmurs in the parlor, and then the slamming of the door. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He didn’t notice he was talking as if Granny was in her kitchen, fixing to cook us some grits, instead of laid out in a coffin in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If you’re not careful, this is also what becomes of the parlor of your mind. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But when she peeked into the parlor, her mother was sitting alone at the seance table, her eyes closed, as if in a trance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In his parents’ parlor to an audience of distinguished Bostonians, then in the homes of those distinguished Bostonians, in colored meeting houses and Methodist churches and lecture halls throughout New England. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As we entered the parlor, she lit the dozens of tiny candles on the Christmas tree, and they flickered like fairy lights. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The sunlight in the breakfast room, the south view of the city from the front parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Or him sitting in the tattoo parlor, his ear taped forward so it wouldn’t get in Tori’s way as she drew a snake on his skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In the hot parlor, beside the specter of the pianola shrouded in a white sheet, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not sit down that time inside the chalk circle that his aides had drawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She eyes me suspiciously but says nothing more, and we walk together to the adjacent waiting parlor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z For the month after, Heleen had kept her in golden chains, not even letting her go down to the parlor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We had ridden to Philadelphia in reserved parlor car seats. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was the same size and shape as the parlor, but two of the walls had bookcases built into them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We sit on the low stone wall in front of the funeral parlor so we can both see the pictures, reading and laughing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s going to rain, I think,” she told the prostrate group in the parlor, and the news was received with little moans of gratitude. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When we entered the SnowCap ice cream parlor, a woman in a wheelchair greeted us. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I reckon the bride thought that with the parlor windows shut, nobody could hear it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The porch was separated by French doors from the parlor and by windows from the office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I drop the inane smile as I follow him into his parlor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Far away, in the little parlor, the ash dropped softly in the fireplace. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Her mother seemed back to normal—screaming and angry, throwing things around the parlor while Pluto tried to reason with her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The parlor or front room was The Room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped over the parlor rug, which was in the hall, rolled up like a long log. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The little one might be an amusement in the parlor. The big one could help Becky with the firewood and housekeeping.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a vision of herself trapped forever in the dusty brown parlor reading the Bible to Trotter and Mr. Randolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The room he is in now is much less like his grandmother’s parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A white man stood in front of a Negro recreation parlor near the college entrance gates and waved to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother gasps over a genuine Yankee bullethole in the front parlor, the bullet still lodged in the wood. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Evy took the glass globe from the parlor fixture, coated the outside with soap and attached it to the bedroom fixture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The day after he got to New York, he found a job at an ice-cream parlor in Brooklyn, not far from The Phoenix. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The Daughters of Mary started showing up in the parlor before 10:00 a.m. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was battered by funeral parlor fans, and ladies were picking over long tables. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I locked the door after Helen and walked into the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Following the song to the parlor, as if Miss Love was a Pied Piper, I stopped at the door in pure amazement. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When he looked in, he saw sheets laid eerily over all the furniture and even on the carpet, as if an arctic landscape had lifted itself and dropped into a parlor in Phippsburg. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z "Come in. There's a fire going in the parlor, and I'll fix you something to eat." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes followed Father, who was crossing her parlor to gaze out the window. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z So we leave the science guys in the parlor with no one but their adoring wives to cheer them on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the parlor, she would finger a vase as if it were some sort of talisman. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A gasp went up from the girls in the parlor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Nancy was amazed and proud, and her mother, often so timid and distant, had hugged and kissed him, insisting that he wrap up in a quilt and sit close to the parlor fire. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom the innkeeper put three tables together in the parlor, and the seven Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione ate their way through five delicious courses. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He performed concerts to the empty parlor, bowing to silent applause. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When Wash went into the kitchen to see about some milk, his mother came out of the parlor with her arms crossed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a parlor to my right, lined with bookcases and filled with shabby claw-footed furniture. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She took me to a beauty parlor and I had my hair shingled. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had in his pocket and placed on the parlor table the lead bullet they had given him to bite while they cut off his frayed leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I cut through a block in which there were close to a dozen funeral parlors, each decked out with neon signs, all set up in old brownstone buildings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the best way to understand this point is through the popular parlor game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Next I hefted the rolled-up parlor rug over my right shoulder and started out to hang it on the line. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I had canceled the arrangements with the funeral parlor and told them instead to prepare the casket for transport. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Inés Pérdido was sitting up primly on the edge of a cushioned chair in the parlor area directly across from the dining room next to an older woman who looked a lot like her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Maybe, I’ll take time out and get a permanent wave, except that I hate beauty parlors. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but I want to get me some new linoleum for the parlor. You ever used them paper curtains, honey? They don’t look too bad. I seen some nice ones up by Maison Blanche.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s probably always going to cut her hair over the sink instead of going to a fancy parlor. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z A week before the ball, Madam ordered that Lady Seymour be moved to the parlor bedchamber downstairs so she could reclaim the largest bedchamber for herself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today we expect a hundred guests here for music and passed hors d’oeuvres. Then a sit-down lunch upstairs in the parlors on the third floor.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I heard the clock, down in the parlor, striking every hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaves the card sitting out on a table in her parlor for some time, glancing at it whenever she happens to be in the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It spun past us like a small cyclone of ice, taking the flowered hat with it, and whirled up the stairs, leaving us frozen speechless in the parlor doorway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I hand her an envelope with forty dollars from what I’ve saved from the Miss Myrna column, my allowance, money Mother has forced into my hands for beauty parlor appointments I never went to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was alone in his parlor, reading, when the streets below him exploded in confusion. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I had no luck with movie theaters, so I decided to try beauty parlors. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They could run into the parlor, sing fast, pray quick, and be on the road before the rest of Cold Sassy got out its Sunday clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Teens hanging out in Namche carrom parlors are more likely to be wearing jeans and Chicago Bulls T-shirts than quaint traditional robes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z First I had to go ask Mama to clear folks out of the parlor where Granny was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Hit’s all right in the parlor now, son. I best see after Loma myself.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But there it stood in the Nolan parlor, a real true miracle that had come without a wish or a prayer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Joyce got permission from Mrs. Tellwright to switch on the large cabinet radio in her parlor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Glass bowls of red berries were set on small tables in the drawing room, library, and the front parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Definitely the mustache-wax parlor slash art gallery slash microbrewery,” he says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, after Santa had stopped in the parlor to kiss her mother goodbye, the three of them set out for the theater. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning the remaining condolences, Celia takes the card in hand and leaves the room, ascending a winding stair that leads to the upstairs parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the parlor, Frank sat on a velvet sofa, surrounded by vintage family photos, porcelain vases that had been too large for his wagon, and red Chinese calligraphy banners. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Now we three were only outlines in the dark parlor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He still recalled enough of his former schooling to be able to recite entire blatts of the Talmud from memory alone, a parlor trick he’d shown off to the crew’s disbelief and amusement. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t simply a question of parlors and tea trays—though there was that, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All her lethargy fled as the sound of giggles and running feet echoed down the hallway and into the parlor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Ash and Ana and Clara waited in the parlor, watching as the musicians set up in the front hall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another parlor, three times the size of the one downstairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z To mourn is not the same as to be in mourning, which means wearing a black armband and sitting in the parlor, talking to people who call on the bereaved. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The old woman who used to live here died in the parlor,” she went on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The parlor stood ready for company, with surprisingly fine furniture for the neighborhood, and a portrait on the wall. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mother’s in the parlor. Will you be visiting awhile?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Guess who I ran into at the beauty parlor?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “We travel all the way around the world with it and yet never leave our parlor. We have more cards. Would you like to see them?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. D, the camp director, and Chiron were playing a quiet game of cards in the parlor. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It seemed that he drove twice a week to all the local beauty parlors and barbershops, collecting their sweepings and arranging them, strand by strand, as carefully as a wren. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The front hall and parlor were full of neighbor ladies, but instead of it being a gaggle of sound like at church meetings, the talk was all whispered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Emma also played piano for the children—a special galloping tune that made them run around the parlor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning she had a carpenter called who took her measurements for the coffin as she stood in the parlor, as if it were for a new dress. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z First thing Wednesday morning, August 5, a black hearse pulled up in the driveway, and four men in dark suits lifted out May’s casket and brought it right into the parlor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora slapped her hands on the cushions of the parlor car and said the farm suited her just fine. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He misses the sound of rain on the zinc roof above his dormer; the feral energy of the orphans; the scratchy singing of Frau Elena as she rocks a baby in the parlor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As I walked through the divining parlor, I was hopeful that maybe I’d mostly worked off my debt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z So she asked me to go to her beauty parlor, her famous Mr. Rory. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I have had enough of this. I’m going into the parlor to watch the Yogi Bear program. Between wine breaks, bring me a snack of some sort. My valve is screaming for appeasement.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, another girl from Irishtown visited after lunch and the two gossiped in the parlor for so long that afterward Fiona had to speed through her chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Robin followed the verger down the corridor to the parlor, the thud of his crutches alternating with the sound of his soft shoes on the stone floor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Her real name was Stella Huffer and her father owned the funeral parlor, but she made everyone call her Bunny. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At times I tried to picture the world she had been born into, in 1866 — a world, I imagined, filled with women in long black skirts, and chaste conversations in the parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On their way to the ice cream parlor, Katie fell back from the tangle of kids and slipped her arm through Naomi’s. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I ran down the stairs and into the parlor where Weylin lay on a sofa, ominously still and silent. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Spends most of her time in the Chinese restaurant or the beauty parlor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d sit on the rug in the parlor, and Big Mama—that’s what we called her—would tell us the story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised to see the front parlor windows alight when I walked down Wall Street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he tries to leave the kitchen, only place he can go is the “parlor,” and there’s no getting out of the parlor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The room was a parlor with velvet chairs no one would dream of sitting on even if invited, which we weren’t. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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