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  • Breteuil, surnamed "the Proud Spirit" -- who, with great dignity, was holding before the brazier the ample tunic of linen (called dormitorium in the Latin of that time, and night-rail in the Saxon tongue) in which his lord was to robe his formidable limbs for repose

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The first dormitorium, with its door wide open, was untenanted.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • I’ve worked out a way the body might be removed without raising suspicion among the others in the dormitorium.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • “There’s a dead man in the stables, lying in a far corner of the dormitorium where Viscount Skellhaven’s lackeys are bedded down.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • If you’d told Vra-Kilian that I have his book, he’d be here in the dormitorium with his henchmen trying to drag me out of bed.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • Nearly an hour later, hearing the sound of distant cheers through the latrine’s loophole, he closed the small volume with a sigh and returned to the dormitorium.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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