bed-sitter

In my mind I have always envisioned a room overlooking the Grand Canal, a bed-sitter in London, a cheap little inn in Japan.

Questions of travel 2009

In my mind I have always envisioned a room overlooking the Grand Canal, a bed-sitter in London, a cheap little inn in Japan.

Lance Mannion: 2009

The line about boarding a plane, was a reference to Australian and US soldiers being flown to join the war in Vietnam, which was at its height in 1968. would find me living in a bed-sitter in Willesden Green, North London.

Some thoughts on political songwriting 2003

Suzie who had taken a secretarial course in the year she left school grabbed a job as far away as possible: at a solicitor's, Jonas, Jonas & Jennings, in Cambridge, where she rented a bed-sitter, put up with the monotonous routine work and spent most of her spare time being squired by desirable undergraduates.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

I looked up over the ivy-covered frontage at the big bedroom windows, then further to the next storey where there was a suite of rooms where in the early days, we had had our bed-sitter.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

That meant that when she had put down the seven shillings rent she was paying for her bed-sitter she had just thirteen shillings left to see her through the rest of the week.

Wells and Women West, Anthony 1985

The female observer is happy with fewer properties: between one and four persons, with bruised lives and fine understandings, can be interestingly arranged in and around a Manhattan apartment or Kensington bed-sitter, and provided with a variety of brashly or discreetly erotic motivations.

Mixed Company Bergonzi, Bernard 1965

In my mind I have always envisioned a room overlooking the Grand Canal, a bed-sitter in London, a cheap little inn in Japan.

Lance Mannion 2009

Each is suffering, abused, entombed, and the wallpaper in one bed-sitter sings a song of lament to these women.

Taipei Times 2009

They delivered a pine kitchen set to a young woman in a tiny the bed-sitter ....

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