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He was evidently a sociable and lively member of the combination-room.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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The majority of my fellow dons who look at me with secretive faces in hall and court and combination-room are in just the same case as myself.
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The little dark-roofed chapel, where I have a stall of my own; the galleried hall, with its armorial glass; the low, book-lined library; the panelled combination-room, with its dim portraits of old worthies: how sweet
From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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So, as Kennedy took cap and gown, and walked across the court to the combination-room, he became pretty well aware that a very heavy sentence was hanging over his head.
Julian Home 1867
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_flowers_ in the combination-room, and at Christ's College in
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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_hall_ or combination-room; and then I was never near enough to hear, and hardly to see him.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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