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  • She finished buttoning her shoes and went out to the sittingroom where her breakfast was waiting for her as usual.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Many fantastic digital images lingering on computer hard drives could stand out on an office wall, the reception or in the sittingroom at home.

    New Gift Ideas from printing 1: Photo on Canvas Thatsnews 2006

  • Many fantastic digital images lingering on computer hard drives could stand out on an office wall, the reception or in the sittingroom at home.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • Not in the kitchen where I sometimes put it while doing the washing up; not in my bedroom where I usually take it off at bedtime; not in the bathroom where I hardly ever put it anywhere; not in the sittingroom with the rest of my hand accoutrements rings, bracelets.

    I seem to have mislaid my watch cleanskies 2004

  • Mr. Heathcliff did not explain his reasons for taking a new mind about my coming here; he only told me he wanted me, and he was tired of seeing Catherine: I must make the little parlour my sittingroom, and keep her with me.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sittingroom, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when I went to call them to supper, I could discover them nowhere.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • On this afternoon Lady Albury did not go to sleep, but contrived to get Ayala alone upstairs into her little sittingroom.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • I heard him go across the hall, and guessed he was making for the sittingroom.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • I pushed myself off the floor and went into the dining-room, and it was there that the significance of the bare sittingroom forced itself into consciousness.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • He it came swiftly from the sittingroom in his dark blue uniform, took me by the arm and swung me strongly and unceremoniously back towards the door.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

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