What is "annexes"

Usage examples of "annexes".

Our two Annexes, as we call then, appeared to be interested in the project, or fancy, or whim, or whatever the older heads might consider it.

The first thing I noticed, the other evening, was that the Tutor was sitting between the two Annexes, and the Counsellor was next to Number Five.

The two Annexes whispered together, and the American Annex gave their joint result.

The two Annexes turn towards the mystic urn as if the lots which were to determine their destiny were shut up in it.

The two Annexes hurried out their pocket-handkerchiefs, and I almost expected a semihysteric cataclysm.

She brought the two Annexes with her, and I gave my three visitors a lecture on carbon, which they seemed to enjoy very much.

One of The Teacups, to whom I have slightly referred, is an accomplished pianist, and the two Annexes sing very sweetly together,--the American girl having a clear soprano voice, the English girl a mellow contralto.

There is no mistaking the interest with which the two, Annexes watch all this.

One of the Annexes, as I have said, has had thoughts of becoming a doctress.

Of course the Annexes know nothing about this, and they may think, as he professed himself willing to lecture on medicine to women, he might like to take one of his pupils as a helpmeet.

Something which she had pleasantly said to him about the two Annexes led him to ask her, more or less seriously, it may be remembered, about the fitness of either of them to be the wife of a young man in his position.

Perhaps he finds consolation in the company of the two Annexes, or one of them,--but which, I cannot make out.

He arranged it so that he should have the two Annexes under his more immediate charge.

The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse.

The rest of us had been soberly sipping our tea, and when the Doctor and the Annexes stopped talking there was one of those dead silences which are sometimes so hard to break in upon, and so awkward while they last.