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The term "chamber" carries a versatile resonance in literature, signifying everything from personal spaces to technical compartments. In some narratives it describes intimate retreat spaces—the private sanctuaries where characters confront emotion or isolation, as seen in the sleeping quarters of figures in [1], [2], and [3]. In others, it evokes a sense of foreboding mystery or symbolic seclusion, lending a haunting air to scenes in [4] and [5]. The word also finds itself appropriated in depictions of public or institutional settings, such as the grand halls of commerce or governance noted in [6] and [7]. Moreover, its use extends to technical contexts—demonstrating a practical precision in scientific descriptions as in [8] and [9]—further underlining its rich adaptability across genres and themes.
  1. I must take out the work?—A likely piece of work that you should find it in your chamber and not know who left it there!
    — from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
  2. She retired to her chamber, but did not soon fall asleep, nor then very profoundly.
    — from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. My Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-chamber, being laid up of the goute.
    — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
  4. Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.
    — from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  5. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat louder than before.
    — from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. The Chamber of Commerce resumed its sessions in the upper long room in 1779, having been suspended since 1775.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  7. I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
    — from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift
  8. The jet chamber is often surrounded by a jacket, through which part of the hot exhaust gases circulate.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  9. Simultaneously the inflation of F forces the gas in chamber D also through the outlet.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams

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