Crossword-Solution: DRAWINGROOMS 12 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The Waddy will tell the female Bent facts and fictions about The Dancing Master and The Dowd.’ ‘Lucy, I should like you better if you were not always looking into people’s back-bedrooms.’ ‘Anybody can look into their front drawingrooms; and remember whatever I do, and whatever I look, I never talk as the Waddy will.

Not on Ilion's plains; how much less in Mayfair's drawingrooms! Not in victory over poor brother French or Phrygians; but in victory over Frost-jötuns, Marsh-giants, over demons of Discord, Idleness, Injustice, Unreason, and Chaos come again.

They do not appear ever to have received the smallest sensation of ocular delight from any natural scene, but would have lived happily all their lives in drawingrooms or studies.

The reception rooms are grand, and disposed in an original way, a surprise to us who are accustomed to the modern pattern of “front and back drawingrooms.” Some of these old mansions offer a pleasing study, and excite admiration from their good effect.

The fact that the world (in part) was busy about feasts and pleasures, that there were drawingrooms lighted for receptions, diningrooms for dinner, ballrooms for dancing, and that I was nowhere included, was an aching thorn.