"Dining room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment. Making a dart at the table, she secured the coffee, which she immediately spilled, thereby making ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... that it was necessary to leave it for the parlor: the Committee of the Biological Society, had scarcely a corner of the table on which to draw up their account of the proceedings. The parlor even was crowded with people, the dining room too, and so out to the court yard of the house. Friends, strangers, people not at all known to the family, elbowed each other and waited in silence. But the silence of a crowd is not much less noisy than the rolling of the sea. Fat Doctor Martout, apparently ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About
... the dining room was sombre in its massive furnishings of Flemish oak. Very different from the one at home, with its sunshine and flowers, its overflow of books from the study, and the odds and ends of pottery picked up by father and Cousin ...
— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard
... Ruth Fielding let herself down until she could see into the open doorway of the dining room. Two men were squatting on the ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson
... servant put a light in the dining room, and returned to Lilian. Her look excited ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing
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