common-room

This is either a ridiculous little school kid regurgitating what his moronic father blathers on and on about at the dinner table or an inmate at an asylum who just sneaked on to the common-room computer.

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Just then a head peeked round the common-room door.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

I was in the true-blue horrors when I came up from that stable, with Joe looming at my heels, and was no way cheered by the celebration taking place in the common-room.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Then he called us all into the common-room, and brooded at us like a vulture on a tombstone.

THE NUMBERS 2010

But the strangest thing was when a brace of wrens flew into the common-room where lie was writing, fluttering about his head.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Just then a head peeked round the common-room door.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

I've seen a dozen of us at dinner having to lift the cloth at a moment's notice and carry it off, dishes, scoff, and all, from the big common-room off the kitchen, up into the sleeping loft.

THE NUMBERS 2010

By way of a shared common-room, communal kitchen, and unisex bathroom facilities, students were pressed into close quarters and forced to learn how to achieve balance and harmony in their day-to-day relationships with their peers.

Judith Merril…Sci-Fi Writer. A visionary talent! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

Respectable academics in libraries, looking up from the books they are reviewing, allow themselves expletives they would never considering using in the common-room.

Speak Thyself 2008

I like to see them over the Morning Post in the common-room; with a “Ha, I see Lady Rackstraw has another daughter.”

The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006