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"Roomful" Quotes from Famous Books

... Of the roomful, Dike and old Ben were the only quiet ones. The others were taking up the explanation and going over it again and again, ...

— One Basket • Edna Ferber

... in itself so terrible, because he had quite made up his mind that sooner or later he would take a coward's revenge for the slights he had been made to endure at her hands. But that he should have been flouted in the presence of a whole roomful of people, that he should have been deliberately left for another man, was a different matter altogether. His first impulse when Jeanne left him, was to walk out of the house and have nothing more to say to the Princess or Jeanne herself. The world was full of girls perfectly willing to tumble ...

— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... from violence," said Jessie. "I suppose men ARE braver—in a way—than women. It seems to me-I can't imagine—how one could bring oneself to face a roomful of rough characters, pick out the bravest, and give him an exemplary thrashing. I quail at the idea. I thought only Ouida's guardsmen did things ...

— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells

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