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At one end is a large marble staircase leading to the upper floors, which contain nine bed and bath rooms, private sitting-rooms and servants' quarters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sybil came laughing to one of the smaller sitting-rooms that evening, a room warm, softly lighted, one ordered as one chose at Coombe Regis.

From The Oyster by Peer

Thus I can live quite undisturbed, although I can reach the sitting-rooms through a passage by a few steps.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

Both rooms were furnished like sitting-rooms, but they differed utterly in style.

From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Reed, Helen Leah

All morning we sat in Madame de Trafford's bedroom or mine, and in the evening in the sitting-rooms.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.