"Common room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lazily off the field, and made several purchases in the preserved fruit line, and then adjourned to their common room for refreshment. ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson
... demon cry:—[25] "Is this a time for distant strife to pray, When all my power is melting fast away, Like mists dissolving at the beams of day, When masters dare their ancient rights resume, And bold intruders fill the common room, Whilst thou, poor wretch, forsaken, shunn'd by all, Must pick thy commons in the empty hall? Nay more! regardless of thy hours and thee, They scorn the ancient, frugal hour of three.[26] Good Heavens! ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various
... means! let me go with you," Mrs. Barclay answered; and Lois opened a door and ushered her at once into the common room of the family. Here Mrs. Armadale ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... Wednesday, at —-; have ventured ten five-pound notes—shouldn't say ventured either—run no risk at all, because why? I knows my birds.' About ten days after this harangue I called again, at about three o'clock one afternoon. The landlord was seated on a bench by a table in the common room, which was entirely empty; he was neither smoking nor drinking, but sat with his arms folded, and his head hanging down over his breast. At the sound of my step he looked up; 'Ah,' said he, 'I am glad you are come, I was just thinking about you.' 'Thank you,' said I; 'it ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... knew the man; his face was flushed, his eyes sparkling as if they saw more than the common room and mean street. But as I stared the glow faded, and he said in ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
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