The private rooms (14 doubles, 6 with double bunks, 2 with private heads, and 2 singles) have head-room enough to stand tall, each is equipped with a washbasin, hot and cold running water is standard. ❋ Nancy Clark (2010)
Our cupboards are at least 2 feet above the counter, so there was plenty of head-room. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2008)
MR. MCCURRY: We're not, because very prudently the senior staff here determined early in the year that they had to manage those resources more effectively so we can now, even with the planned travel we have, we've got I think $40,000 or so in sort of head-room, cushion between now and the end of the fiscal year. ❋ ITY National Archives (1997)
'Some people make a point of head-room, but I never mind much about it. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
The line extending westward from Bergen Hill had to be established so as to give ample head-room at the numerous bridges over the railroads and highways which it crosses. ❋ Charles W. Raymond (N/A)
Tripod drills, standing on the bench, drilled the usual holes, but, owing to the lack of head-room, steels long enough to reach the bottom of the bench could not be used. ❋ James H. Brace (N/A)
Then we open paths, renew our society, enlarge our work, make elbow-room and head-room enough in the world. ❋ Various (N/A)
The driver is provided with a small orifice through which he is able to obtain a clear uninterrupted view of the road ahead, while the armouring over the tonneau is carried to a sufficient height to allow head-room to the gun crew when standing at the gun. ❋ Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (N/A)
She had even had the nets heightened on poles to give more head-room. ❋ Unknown (1939)
For four persons a 12 × 14 is commonly used; but a 14 × 14 with 4-foot walls and a 9-foot center has double the head-room of the standard 12 × 14, and 2-1/2 feet more space between cots, if these are set lengthwise of the tent, two on a side. ❋ Girl Scouts Of The United States Of America (1918)
There were six feet of head-room below, and she was crown-decked and flush-decked. ❋ Unknown (1913)
"I want head-room for the morning after," he had said. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)
As ultimately worked out this design was for a cutter, to be of twelve feet beam, forty feet long on the load-water line, and of such a depth as would not only afford comfortable head-room in the cabins, but also give the craft a good hold of the water and make her very weatherly. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Lord -- seemed to be singularly struck with the model of the _Water Lily_; the only fault he found with her being the deficiency of head-room below. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
This was a most excellent arrangement, for otherwise, the vessel being extraordinarily beamy and very shallow, there would have been scarcely head-room enough abaft in the ship's run for cabins; whereas the addition of the four-feet height of poop afforded delightfully lofty and airy cabins for the size of the vessel. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
But once past the entrance the cave widened out until its interior was as spacious as that of half a dozen forecastles knocked into one, with head-room of ten or twelve feet. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
At any rate, I can mind a man doing something o 'the sort -- a man in a cord jacket, with a basket of tools; but, Lord bless ye, we don't gi'e it head-room, we don't, such as that. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Both of these rose about three feet above the deck, and were sunk sufficiently into the hold to afford head-room. ❋ Joshua Slocum (1877)
