ground-room

The Club is about a hundred and fifty, and near eighty of them were then going to dinner at two long tables in a great ground-room.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Nobody was in the ground-room floor, nothing, except the untidiness left by half-a-dozen rough men, and I mounted the narrow stair and tried the room above.

The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

The Club is about a hundred and fifty, and near eighty of them were then going to dinner at two long tables in a great ground-room.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

When the ground-room was ready for occupancy, it was not a cheerless place.

The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871

He keeps his poor shivering clerk in a small tank-like ground-room till the last minute of his stipulated time, and then dismisses him with an angry growl.

Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840

The Club is about a hundred and fifty, and near eighty of them were then going to dinner at two long tables in a great ground-room.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

'Tis in the third storey of a tower, of which the ground-room is my chapel, the second storey a chamber with a withdrawing-room and closet, where I often lie, to be more retired; and above is a great wardrobe.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

'Tis in the third storey of a tower, of which the ground-room is my chapel, the second storey a chamber with a withdrawing-room and closet, where I often lie, to be more retired; and above is a great wardrobe.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14 Michel de Montaigne 1562

Aunt Peg told me she should go to work and clean up the ground-room, and if father had any old "chunks of wood he could spare, Plint could come over and get 'em, and when that new nigger came, there'd be a prospect awaitin '."

The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871