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  • One must never smoke a pipe in the streets; one must never smoke at all in the coffee-room of a hotel.

    Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • Don't you remember, she said, that day in the coffee-room when he thought I didn't know what going out meant?

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • Then I went up and had a bath, and dressed, and came downstairs an hour later to my breakfast in the coffee-room.

    Movie Night 2010

  • It was the same on the drive to the hotel, with Joe on the box, and at breakfast in the coffee-room; she either ignored my remarks or replied in cold monosyllables, staring past me.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • While they talked the friend offered him coffee (coffeecake, whispered my brain) and himself sipped some coffee (coffeecake) and our hero looked around the coffee-room (coffeecake) …until finally I just had to get up and look up coffeecake recipes.

    Here a Trigger, There a Trigger | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • This intimation was sufficient for Mrs Harrel, whose love of the Opera was merely a love of company, fashion, and shew; and therefore to the coffee-room she readily led the way.

    Cecilia 2008

  • She sent him immediately into the coffee-room, to enquire if either of the gentlemen were then in the house.

    Cecilia 2008

  • He recites walking to and fro in the middle of the coffee-room, stopping only now and then, when the expression requires some emphatical attitude.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Meanwhile the ladies were now making way to the coffee-room, though very slowly on account of the crowd; and just as they got near the lobby,

    Cecilia 2008

  • The young stranger who had officiated as mediator between the disputants, in a few moments followed her with a glass of water, which he had brought from the coffee-room, begging her to drink it and compose herself.

    Cecilia 2008

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