portiere

He went downstairs and asked the portiere where the nearest post office was.

It lay along the floor under a heavy portiere which closed off the doorway to a rear room.

And, at the same moment, a girl's sprightly voice sang out from behind the portiere.

He waited patiently, holding back with one hand the curtains of the portiere.

She looked again, and then drew back behind a nearby portiere, her heart beating wildly.

Only a thin portiere screened him from their view.

"Good for you, my lady," whispered Delia from behind a portiere.

For a moment she stood there, one hand still holding back the heavy portiere, quite still, taking in the company at a glance.

An archway, filled by a beaded portiere, led into the living room, now dark.

Everyone turned and looked at the portiere that hung between the ballroom and the sitting room.

"Then you must swear-" The portiere at the far end of the room parted.

We were in Milverton's study, and a portiere at the farther side showed the entrance to his bedroom.

Eve walked forward, and drew aside the portiere.

He moved to one side behind a heavy portiere and waited, his gun along his side.

It proved to be a curtain or portiere, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses.

And without another word or look, he threw open the velvet curtains of the portiere, and disappeared behind them.

"Disorder in the house I'll live with the tosses And watch the sundown through the portiere."

A hand drew the portiere aside.

From behind the half- closed portiere of stamped velvet a little pale face peeped out, half-curious, half-frightened.

Merchandise selection expanded: "We carry anything good, from a pickle to a portiere," members of the New York exchange proclaimed in 1879.

The portiere, an over-weight, ill-tempered man of sixty, shouted into the courtyard and a few seconds later his grandson Aldo arrived.

Il Papa Portiere.

The more staid people played cards all night long in the "Pompeiian" sitting room, curtained off from the ballroom by a heavy portiere on bronze rings.

The portiere barked some instructions at the boy and made Sandison to understand that Aldo would see to it that the letter got posted.

Behind a portiere in Mr Davenheim's study stands a safe, and that safe had been broken into and rifled.