He held back the heavy portiere screening the door of the living room.

They had come to a heavy portiere; Hiram thought it masked a doorway.

Dorfling was there, and received his guests as the waiter lifted the heavy portiere.

He bowed, and the heavy portiere fell behind him as he passed from the czarina's sight.

As the heavy portiere fell into place behind him, the doctor turned to Ruth, still seated in her chair.

The heavy portiere dropped noiselessly behind the son, and he went up the wide, curving stairway to his own room.

The room was at the head of the stairs, and one of the doors was open, and had a heavy portiere hanging across it.

But the next instant he had passed out of the hall through the heavy portieres and stood inside the drawing-room.

Heavy portieres hung over the doorway into the hall, over another into a back room and over the bay windows.

On the other side of the heavy portieres that cut us off from the living room I could distinguish low voices.

He held the heavy portieres back for Bab as she stepped into the hall and accompanied her to the vestibule door.

The doors on the landing-place were screened by heavy portieres of Genoa velvet, richly embroidered in gold with the ducal crown and cipher.

In the midst of the comedy, to which neither made reply, the heavy portieres were suddenly drawn aside and Blakeman's trained voice rang out:

"At last!" she murmured, and crept down the stairs, pausing behind the heavy portieres at the entrance to the living room.

"Come this way, please," said the maid, and Bab followed her across the square hall and through a door hung with heavy portieres.