"Living-room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I saw Crillon, planted in the living-room downstairs. He held out his arms, and shouted. After expressing good wishes, he informs ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... now enjoying his corn-cob pipe. Aun' Sheba also liked a good square meal as much as any one, and she had the additional satisfaction that she had earned it. At this hour of the day she was usually very tired, and was accustomed to take an hour's rest before putting her living-room in order for the night. Although the twilight often fell before she returned from her mercantile pursuits, she never intrusted Uncle Sheba with the task of getting supper, and no housekeeper in the city kept her provisions under lock and key more rigorously ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... ways: I remember an engraved roster of names, headed by the words "Addams' Guard," and the whole surmounted by the insignia of the American eagle clutching many flags, which always hung in the family living-room. As children we used to read this list of names again and again. We could reach it only by dint of putting the family Bible on a chair and piling the dictionary on top of it; using the Bible to stand on was always accompanied by a little thrill of superstitious awe, although ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... of his exultation, he reached the nunnery, and entered his big, bare living-room, to find Heywood ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... was born in a mud house on the shore, near the old church at Ballaugh. The house had one room only, and it had been the living-room, sleeping-room, birth-room, and death-room of a family of six. Davy, who was the youngest, saw them all out. The last to go were his mother and his grandfather. They lay ill at the same time, and died on the one day. The old man died first, and Davy fixed up a herring-net in front ...
— Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon - 1893 • Hall Caine
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