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combination-room

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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

  • 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.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • 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

  • 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

  • _flowers_ in the combination-room, and at Christ's College in

    The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

  • _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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