dining-rooms

Elegant, but not too serious or solemn, some of the dining-rooms let out a genuine feeling of warmth.

Bedroom Design Ideas from Hulsta 2010

The modification of old-fashioned rules in this regard has made the lines faint, it is true, and there is no book on etiquette that does not reprehend as “unbecoming a gentleman” smoking in drawing-rooms, boudoirs, dining-rooms, restaurants, where now men not only are allowed, and invited, to smoke, but where highly respectable women have been known to join them.

Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade 2010

David T. Vynn preferred dining-rooms to offices, first because no 'bugs' could be listening and second because he was permanently hungry.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

The parlours are gorgeous in the extreme, and there are two superb dining-rooms to contain 600 people each.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Four dining-rooms, twenty bed-rooms, two marble colonnades, a store-room upstairs, a bed-room where I sleep myself, a sitting-room for this viper, a very good room for the porter, a guest-chamber for visitors.

Satyricon 2007

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill and in the newspapers, televisions and dining-rooms of the nation, the band plays on.

And the Band Played On 2007

No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage.

The Sound of a Million Elves Celebrating « Whatever 2007

People lay in their dress clothes, in dining-rooms, restaurants, on staircases, in halls, everywhere just as they had been overcome.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

We had taken over the various “great houses,” as they used to be called, to make communal dining-rooms and so forth — their kitchens were conveniently large — and pleasant places for the old people of over sixty whose time of ease had come, and for suchlike public uses.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Instead of living in great complete houses and dining at home, people lived in smaller houses or flats and dined in collective dining-rooms or restaurants.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006