What is "common rooms"

Usage examples of "common rooms".

Instead of remaining in his room to be tortured he began to stay up late every night in the common rooms, reading and eavesdropping on the adults.

They probably assumed that he had learned his mode of speech when cleaning out common rooms or, it may have been, while waiting on high table.

They were country common rooms, brick-walled and quiet, where watching a brindle cat was the entertainment and the innkeeper herself served table, inevitably a woman with hips that looked as though a man's fingers might break trying a pinch.

By the time they had visited two dozen common rooms, Mat felt as if his eyelids had weights.

I'm a shepherd, and I play the flute in common rooms - but the soldiers turned from their talk to listen, and the officer closed the wooden cover of the book he had begun reading.

It was mornings and evenings when common rooms filled up like this.

Even when they had to sleep in the attic, merchants preened in the common rooms of inns, smoking their pipes and telling what they knew that no one else did.

I'm a shepherd, and I play the flute in common rooms -- but the soldiers turned from their talk to listen, and the officer closed the wooden cover of the book he had begun reading.

Put the sleeping quarters near the furnace, the common rooms in the middle, the kitchen at the other end.

She led the way down warmly painted hallways and up interior staircases and through common rooms to the private areas on the crater-side of the domi complex.