sitting-room

• “I have only the faintest recollections of Pa, mainly, I think, as an enormous pair of highly polished brogues, which I recall studying intently at floor level in the sitting-room at 18, Denham Place.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “Captain Haskett-Smith seems to be holding his own camera, and leans against the window-sill of a charming small sitting-room which, eighty years later, Naomi Miller and I used as an office when together we worked as aides to Davis McCaughey, certainly the most beautiful, tranquil, and comfortable I shall ever occupy.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Having told Gabi to come up, she moved the tray of half-eaten food from the sitting-room table of her suite and placed it outside the door.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

• “The sitting-room sofa should therefore be the ideal vantage point from which to enjoy the proceedings.”

  The Guardian: Rewind TV: OK! TV; The British Academy Film Awards; Champions League Football; Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence

• “I burn a grate fire in my sitting-room at Berkeley.”

  Chapter XV

• “It was almost two rooms in one, the one he was in evidently the sitting-room, and the one he could see into, the bedroom.”

  Chapter XVIII

• “Dominating their sitting-room was the largest bottle of Scotch (or of anything else) I have ever seen.”

  Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “He also demonstrated one of the home's architectural quirks: a hidden bar, accessible through a secret door in the sitting-room bookcase.”

  The Huffington Post: How They Passed Health Care: Ted Kennedy's Seduction Process And The Utter Shamelessness Of Kent Conrad

• “On Bodmin Moor, meanwhile, he points out some nondescript stones that are actually the remains of someone's prehistoric sitting-room.”

  The Guardian: The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor

• “She retreated through the sitting-room door, and Cormac emerged a second later.”

  Simon & Schuster: FALSE MERMAID

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