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Jack London at his desk in the cottage "work-room" where he wrote his later novels, such as The Mutiny of the Elsinore and The Star Rover.
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Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.
The Master Builder 2008
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Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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A plainly-furnished work-room in the house of HALVARD SOLNESS.
The Master Builder 2008
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Except that I shot them on 16mm, and projected them with a little toy silent hand-swing projector that only had seen Mickey in Arabia pass through it since my early childhood, onto a sheet of drawing paper pinned to the beams in Børge's attic work-room wall with two push pins.
Archive 2007-05-01 Hans Perk 2007
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Except that I shot them on 16mm, and projected them with a little toy silent hand-swing projector that only had seen Mickey in Arabia pass through it since my early childhood, onto a sheet of drawing paper pinned to the beams in Børge's attic work-room wall with two push pins.
All about Leica Reels Hans Perk 2007
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The whole fabric of that other universe sways for a moment as I come into his room, into his clear and ordered work-room.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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Lady Constantine thought she would remain to hear his report, and for this purpose withdrew, and sat down in a nook of the adjoining work-room of Swithin, the doctor meeting her as he passed through it into the sick chamber.
Two on a Tower 2006
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