Its great besetting sin is not of self-growth, for it comes of the slavish adulation offered by those beneath it,-the grovelling worship of the would-be fine folk, who would leave friends and home and hearth to be admitted even to the antechambers of the great.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
I was in one of the antechambers at the time, talking to a couple of gentlemen and to one of the Queen's Portuguese chaplains who knew a little Italian, when I heard the music playing, and ran out in time to see him go past from the way that led from his own lodgings.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson
I have seen exalted ladies in this position at Madrid, and it is very common in the antechambers of the Court and the palace of the Princess of the Asturias.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt