sitting room

• “Like the rest of the visitors' quarters of the base, this sitting room between Kirk's room and McCoy's was essentially Karsid in appearance, part of the far older hive of tunnels that base funds had been too limited to refurbish.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

• “Then the sitting room door opened, and through it stepped—”

  Simon & Schuster: Seven Deadly Wonders

• “Rosa, the maid, came into the sitting room where Mrs. Vanross and her daughters were seated, and announced that Dr. Caulfield and a young gentleman were in the parlor, and then sidling up to Lavinia, with whom she was especially familiar, she said slyly, "Deed, Miss Veeny, him de pootiest young gentleman I eber see.”

  A Charleston Love Story; or, Hortense Vanross

• “Thanks for reminding me," said Jury, rubbing his eyes and leaning back in his chair in Plant's sitting room at Brown's.”

  the dirty duck

• “The sitting room was bright and sunny, the walls painted yellow, multicoloured scatter rugs on the polished wood floor, the brown sofa and chairs festooned with an assortment of cushions in autumn colours.”

  Pregnant by the Millionaire

• “I think it's revenge," said Jury, in Melrose Plant's sitting room at the hotel.”

  the dirty duck

• “He has written a superb biography of President Eisenhower Julie verified that the tiny sitting room off the Lincoln Bedroom was the room that her dad had chosen as his upstairs office.”

  Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

• “The tears were still on his face when Morris came into the sitting room to tell her that the Burne-Joneses had sadly decided that they could not move to Red House after all.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Wayward Muse

• “An untidy sitting room was half visible, with the dress Jocelyne had been wearing that evening thrown on an armchair.”

  Maigret and the Pickpocket

• “He led them into a big sitting room where dralon-upholstered chairs and settees were dotted uneasily about on a sea of heavily patterned carpet.”

  No Laughing Matter

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