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  • So she turned around and walked back into the commonroom and sat down near the hearth.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • The commonroom was unanimous in desiring the election of Mr. Watson, headmaster of the preparatory school; he could hardly be described as already a master of King's School, they had all known him for twenty years, and there was no danger that he would make a nuisance of himself.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Winnington Hall, the scene of these pastimes, is now, I understand, used by Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. as a commonroom or clubhouse for the staff in their great scientific industry.

    The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

  • Winnington Hall, the scene of these pastimes, is now, I understand, used by Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. as a commonroom or clubhouse for the staff in their great scientific industry.

    The Life of John Ruskin 1893

  • They depict some areas of the exhibit modeled after Hagrid's Hut, the Gryffindor commonroom, and a Quidditch viewing stand.

    MuggleNet.com 2009

  • He knew everything about Morgan Tertius’s father, of course; Colston’s was a small place, its paying pupils dissected in the masters’ commonroom all the more minutely because in a starved existence there was so little else to talk about.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • He knew everything about Morgan Tertius’s father, of course; Colston’s was a small place, its paying pupils dissected in the masters’ commonroom all the more minutely because in a starved existence there was so little else to talk about.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

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