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room and next
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
Winston had heard because he was setting up the liquor tray in the next room.
There were three -- one leading to a bathroom, one to the hall, and one to the room next door which was immovable -- locked or bolted on the other side.
And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.
The next morning, while Dolores was out of the room, he went to her bureau drawer, took out a pair of nylon lace pants, and tenderly dropped them next to his shorts.
The front room serves as a living room used to receive visitors, the next room is the parents ' bedroom, and the third is for unmarried daughters.
Here, in a supposedly smooth step from one room to another, the Tramp loses his hat in one room, but it is instantly back on his head as he enters the next room.
However, he has a habit of treating his patients in bizarre and often disturbing ways, such as prescribing heroin for a cold, making a man with a headache jump up and down in order to make his penis swing ( while mirroring the patient's bewildered jumping himself ) and making a patient leave and go in to the next room so he can examine him over the telephone.
The objective of each level is simply to locate the exit room that leads to the next area, marked with an exit sign and / or a special kind of door, while surviving all hazards on the way.
The next day he returns to the store room and is shocked to find everything as he had found it the day before, including the Whipper and the two agents.
The Chief Clerk emerges to join the conversation, but K. is called away by Leni, who takes him to the next room, where she offers to help him and seduces him.
He's tracked down at a hotel room the next morning by F. B. I.
However, the “ actual sounds that she hears are accounted for by the efforts of the faithful servant to communicate with her, there is still a hint of supernatural in her dream, inspired, it would be seem, by the fact that she is on the spot of her father ’ s murder and that his unburied skeleton is concealed in the room next hers ”.
By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room.
In 1962, DEC donated the engineering prototype PDP-1 to MIT, where it was placed in the room next to its ancestor, the TX-0 computer, which was by then on indefinite loan from Lincoln Laboratory.
Often profits were so high the owners were able to buy the house next door to live in, turning every room in their former home into bars and lounges for customers.
Then, after putting the matter to God in prayer, he determined that the first person to enter his room the next morning should be the next Emperor, and that person was Justin, the chief of his guards.
When Godai refuses, he wakes up the next morning to find her gone and her room empty.

room and theirs
Ed and Bobby visit Lewis ' hospital room to make sure Lewis ' version of events is consistent with theirs.
McKibbin argues that the Labour government had very limited room to manoeuvre in 1929-31 it as well as could be expected ; it handled the British economy better than most foreign governments handled theirs, and the Great Depression was less severe in Britain.
Initially Jonathan was only brought in to investigate because he was asked by Maddie due to her having a professional connection to the crime in her role as a journalist, or because it involved an old friend of theirs ( Such as one case featuring Jonathan being contacted by an old friend of his mother's after her husband was impaled by a sword in a sealed room ).

room and was
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.
He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
He ran for the sick room, found his pistol was broken, and threw it away.
Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
He settled on the sofa with his coffee, warming his hands on the cup, although the room was heavy with heat.
He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

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