The falling rate of profit, the tendency to monopoly … how wrong could that old reading-room attendant have been? ❋ Unknown (2009)
He wrote prolifically, intensely, from morning till night, and late at night, except when he broke off to go to the reading-room, draw books from the library, or to call on Ruth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was with regret that he ceased from writing to study, that he ceased from study to go to the library, that he tore himself away from that chart-room of knowledge or from the magazines in the reading-room that were filled with the secrets of writers who succeeded in selling their wares. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He went to the free reading-room and looked through the files of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unswayed by the presence in the council chamber of a double-page "pin-up" in colour of the Swedish film star Anita Ekberg, Oxford City Council yesterday refused by a substantial majority to ask the Library Committee to reconsider its decision not to take "Picture Post" in the reading-room of the public library. ❋ Unknown (2012)
He toiled on till dark, when he went out to the reading-room and explored magazines and weeklies until the place closed at ten o'clock. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Go to the reading-room balcony to meet Ms. Melendez's mother and father, aunts and uncles, and many cousins. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Two years later a similar article on the Reading Room grumbles about the open access issue where “some people who are neither scholars nor students find their way into the reading-room,” and goes on to describe such visitors as “necessary evils ... to be endured” and as “dead flies which spoil the ointment.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Then I got such a real painful tolchock on the nose that I said to myself to hell to hell, and I opened my glazzies up and started to struggle to get free, which was not hard, brothers, and I tore off creeching to the sort of hallway outside the reading-room. ❋ John Myles Aavedal (2010)
I settled down there in the reading-room, and because I was tired and feeling not so well the stream of tumblers came and went beside my elbow, for the bell was at my side. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It seemed but a moment till I was sitting writing again, and yet I must have lingered over my dinner, for it was nine o'clock when I sat down again in the reading-room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was very still and silent in the reading-room, still with the silence of an empty London club at night, muffled in repose. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After dinner at the Reform Club yesterday I took a seat in the reading-room beside the open fire. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The other was a lady, who, being in London, and having a great desire to see the famous reading-room of the British Museum, was assured by the English family with whom she stayed that it was unfortunately impossible, because the place was closed for a week, and she had only three days there. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Suddenly, without a formal waiting period and in response to an informal application on my part, which was immediately walked "upstairs" by a reading-room assistant and signed by the senior in-house archivist, I was granted permission to photocopy documents. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In addition, the visitor might find a billiard-room, a bagatelle-room, a chess-room and most certainly the ubiquitous reading-room. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Athenaeum, which the Liberal party had set up in accordance with the advanced spirit of the age, and perhaps in opposition to the aristocratic old reading-room, into which the Edinburgh Review had once scarcely got an admission, and where no tradesmen were allowed an entrance. ❋ Unknown (2006)
❋ Chechevitsa (2003)
Bob spent a [good deal] of time in [the christian] science reading room after eating that bad [shellfish]. ❋ Roqlobstr (2011)
Read the room, James. No one here is [interested] in [talking politics] right now.
Read the room [Matt] .What is everyone doing right now ❋ NewsINFreehold (2019)
1. Tom [read the room] prior to speaking, knowing that Sarah’s kitten had died yesterday.
2. Tom what the fuck, why would you talk about the [ballgame] when my cat died yesterday? [Read the room] [for goodness sake]! ❋ SuchAFunnyLife (2021)
[Olivia] and [Rachel], [read the room]. We don't want to talk yo you. ❋ 1he2he3he (2020)
