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Chamber

noun

A natural or artificial enclosed space.

An enclosed volume in the body.

A room where a judge transacts business.

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly.

A room used primarily for sleeping. Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room.

verb

(past & past part. chambered; pres. part. chambering)

Place in a chamber.

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"Chamber" Quotes from Famous Books

... said swiftly, on a sudden inspiration, "will you add one more kindness to your long list? Will you hide in here for a few minutes?" So saying, she showed him the secret chamber. ...

— The Slowcoach • E. V. Lucas

... consoled ourselves that at least it had been drawn by one who was there. Else how could he have done it so accurately? For the likeness of Daniel was splendid. The great prophet of Babylon must have looked just like that. He must have sat on a boulder in the middle of the rocky chamber, his eyes fixed on the ceiling, one hand resting languidly on the head of a mighty lion, a sandalled foot using another hoary mane as a footstool. There were lions all around him, and how they loved him! You could see it in their eyes. Tip Pulsifer once ...

— The Soldier of the Valley • Nelson Lloyd

... there arise prophetic voices from field, forest, mine, and workshop, fortelling the grand stirring into life of extended commerce, enterprise, and capital. Her products have increased and multiplied in kind and in variety, till we hear in the Senate chamber of Congress an eloquent plea for the protection of her interests in the country's political economy. We hear from the lips of the Kentucky Senator a full recognition of our worth, our greatness and alas! the tardy ...

— Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War • Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... die. The fever spent itself at last and there followed long days of utter prostration both of mind and body. Dyce's cheery patience never failed. Her sunny nature diffused a bright hopefulness throughout the sick chamber, until Evadne would lie in a dreamy content, almost fancying herself back in the old home as she listened to the musical tones and watched the dusky hands which so deftly ministered to her comfort. One day after she had lain for a long time ...

— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black

... regions unknown, leaving me to walk soberly with Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Yet with all our free, frank talk, there was all the while that in her gentle courtesy which kept me from venturing into any chamber of her life whose door she did not set freely open to me. So I vexed myself about her, and when Mr. Craig returned the next week from the Landing where he had been for some days, my first ...

— Black Rock • Ralph Connor

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