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  • The roofs of all these buildings formed broad walks running inside the upper ramparts; on this level, at the west end, there was even a little house with a porch, for the commandant, and a billiard-room, dammit-which Gratton had sworn to, and I hadn't believed-with the pills still lying on the baize.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Sitting in the billiard-room I more than once heard the sound of voices raised, and I had a pretty good idea what the point was which was under discussion.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • For well over a decade the fort flourished, and at its peak was as Flashman describes it-a great citadel on the prairie, with its fIne rooms, stores, shops, smithy, wagon-park, billiard-room, and the rest; every Westerner of note was familiar with them.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The depths of depravity for him, it seemed, was a billiard-room, so he had made for this one and been quickly inveigled and fleeced.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • We talked little, and I for one was glad when the meal was over and we were able to retire into the modern billiard-room and smoke a cigarette.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Two men stood in the billiard-room of an old country house, talking.

    2010 January | Scary For Kids 2010

  • It only burned for a few minutes, but sparks must have reached the roof of the billiard-room, for presently it began to flame, and the invalids had to beat a retreat, roaring for more water If the Indians had come in then, in one spot, neck or nothing, we'd have been done for.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "You mean last night, sir - in the billiard-room?"

    Watershed 2010

  • She turned short round, and entered a large apartment at the head of the stairs, called the billiard-room, where she resolved to wait and watch ere she ventured any further.

    Camilla 2008

  • Under legislation signed by Mayor Bloomberg last week, businesses with fewer than three pool tables will no longer need a billiard-room license.

    It���s Eight and Out for Billiards Licensing Law 2007

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