"Common-room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entered the great hall which formed the common room of the establishment. Its arrangement was similar to that of the room at the inn, with its raised dais for the master, his family, and guests, while the rest of the room was devoted to the retainers and servants. ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... rendered only the more complex, riddles having to do with the nature of the universe and with man's place in the universe. Nor did he rouse himself from his meditations until the door of the inn had closed behind him and he found himself in its common room. Then he became the Emanuel Swedenborg of benignity, geniality, and courtesy, the Swedenborg whom all ...
— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce
... entered the room. "Make way for the double-first—the hero of the age, gentlemen! I am told that they mean to put up an alabaster statue to him in the Common Room at Trinity. However, I will vote for nothing ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... under the porch of the inn, occupied in washing, to the great amazement of sundry beer-drinkers, who observed him with curious eyes from the large common room in which ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... the music from the common room, or hall, summoned to the dance. The musician was an old gray-headed negro who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century. His instrument was as old and battered as ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving |
