bed-sitter

• “The line about boarding a plane, was a reference to Australian and US soldiers being flown to join the war in Vietnam, which was at its height in 1968. would find me living in a bed-sitter in Willesden Green, North London.”

  Some thoughts on political songwriting

• “Suzie who had taken a secretarial course in the year she left school grabbed a job as far away as possible: at a solicitor's, Jonas, Jonas & Jennings, in Cambridge, where she rented a bed-sitter, put up with the monotonous routine work and spent most of her spare time being squired by desirable undergraduates.”

  Bottled Spider

• “I looked up over the ivy-covered frontage at the big bedroom windows, then further to the next storey where there was a suite of rooms where in the early days, we had had our bed-sitter.”

  Every living thing

• “That meant that when she had put down the seven shillings rent she was paying for her bed-sitter she had just thirteen shillings left to see her through the rest of the week.”

  Wells and Women

• “The female observer is happy with fewer properties: between one and four persons, with bruised lives and fine understandings, can be interestingly arranged in and around a Manhattan apartment or Kensington bed-sitter, and provided with a variety of brashly or discreetly erotic motivations.”

  Mixed Company

• “In my mind I have always envisioned a room overlooking the Grand Canal, a bed-sitter in London, a cheap little inn in Japan.”

  Lance Mannion

• “Each is suffering, abused, entombed, and the wallpaper in one bed-sitter sings a song of lament to these women.”

  Taipei Times

• “They delivered a pine kitchen set to a young woman in a tiny the bed-sitter ....”

  Internet Archive: Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum

• “At present, he told Uncle Gib, he was sleeping on the floor of his friend’s bed-sitter.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “I staggered across the small bed-sitter I was renting and opened the front window, letting in the biting breath of winter, and hollered, "It's all right!”

  Fault Line

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