1 For the most part, his task of reading was performed in a recumbent position in the anteroom; which circumstance ended by causing his mattress to become as ragged and as thin as a wafer.
2 During the brief time that they are traversing the hall, the anteroom, and the dining-room, let me try to say something concerning the master of the house.
3 The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom.
4 There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.
5 and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put on cloaks or mantles, and drive away.
6 And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.
7 This door led into a back anteroom.
8 A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.
9 Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.
10 As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage with lanterns, standing at the entrance.
11 Anton, a man who had looked after Prince Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom.
12 Boris, hearing a strange voice in the anteroom, came out to meet him.
13 Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.
14 In Marya Dmitrievna's anteroom the footman who helped him off with his fur coat said that the mistress asked him to come to her bedroom.
15 Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.