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  • Reading-room, but no word could he get from the editor.

    Chapter 28 2010

  • Reading-room — I to Central Africa and — who knows?

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Educational Reading-room, and how it was that the observant

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • Marian — who looked pale and ill — addressed a question to him about the work she would ordinarily have pursued to-day at the Reading-room.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • The Reading-room was his true home; its warmth enwrapped him kindly; the peculiar odour of its atmosphere — at first a cause of headache — grew dear and delightful to him.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Oh, I knew her by sight quite well — had seen her at the Reading-room.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Perhaps once a week she allowed herself to stray about the alleys of the Reading-room, scanning furtively those who sat at the desks, but the face she might perchance have discovered was not there.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Reading-room of the British Museum, but have no acquaintance to whom I can refer in the ordinary way.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • One afternoon he went to the Museum Reading-room, and was busy for a few minutes in consultation of a volume which he took from the shelves of medical literature.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Mr Quarmby laughed in a peculiar way, which was the result of long years of mirth-subdual in the Reading-room.

    New Grub Street 2003

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