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  • "I always wanted to do this tour because it's so beautiful there," he explains, leaning back against the wooden settle of a dark-panelled West End pub.

    Bill Bailey's Highlands fling 2010

  • The original building had comprised four spacious rooms: an all-purpose sitting room at the front, a grand fireplace and dark-panelled walls, and beside it a smaller room that had served as my father's bedroom in his bachelor days, converted into a billiards and smoking room after my mother came.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • The original building had comprised four spacious rooms: an all-purpose sitting room at the front, a grand fireplace and dark-panelled walls, and beside it a smaller room that had served as my father's bedroom in his bachelor days, converted into a billiards and smoking room after my mother came.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Holmes caught up a candlestick and lit its taper from a lamp on the table, and I followed him out of the warmth, through a dark-panelled passageway (my stockings squelching on the thin patches in the carpeting), and up what by the wavering light appeared a very nicely proportioned staircase lined with eighteenth-century faces.

    The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

  • It was high summer and the gardens had been stripped to deck the sizeable chamber with flowers which provided splashes of colour to lighten the dark-panelled room and whose scent mingled with the good savoury smells coming from the kitchens.

    The Frozen Heart Cassidy, Laura 1995

  • That night, behind thick curtains, in a dark-panelled room lit by heavy candles that threw their flickering light on a crucifix of gold, the Marques de Casares el Grande y Melida Sadaba prayed.

    Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

  • Ashurst, a low, dark-panelled, chintz-furnished room, with an ever-pervading scent of dried rose-leaves, and fresh flowers, and with long windows opening on to the little lawn, all shut in with trees and shrubberies.

    My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

  • His appointed task was not yet done and he returned to the study, a long, low, dark-panelled room, looking on the garden.

    The Invader A Novel

  • We loved the dark-panelled room where we were always made so happy.

    Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

  • I had very comfortable bachelor quarters in an ancient and rather grimy house, with an old fashioned dark-panelled sitting-room,

    The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895

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