Sentence examples for billiard house from inspiring English sources

This reporter added it to a little pile of objects she had accumulated on the red velvet and rosewood sofa, part of a suite of furniture that in all likelihood had occupied the same spot in Ms. Schwartz's front parlor since 1925, when her grandmother bought the place, which was built in the mid-19th century as a billiard house, an extension to the gaming club next door.

He wrote them, or at least parts of them, at a table in a third-floor billiard room in his house in Hartford, where he and his family lived for about 17 years.

One or two still house the billiard halls that the teetotal Montague Burton liked to house above his shops, in the belief that they kept young men from drinking.

Mr. Hunt has developed other high-class establishments, including Amsterdam Billiards, a billiard parlor.

The eye-popper of the moment was Altissimo, a dazzling red climber ascending the walls of the tearoom, a charming little house (formerly the billiard room) where tea, thin sandwiches and pastries are served in the afternoon.

The 2.14-acre property, which is on Lee Avenue, one of the grandest streets in the already ritzy Hamptons, features a ten-bedroom house containing a billiard room, library and seven fireplaces, as well as a children's playhouse and heated swimming pool.

Plans call for other dining options, a bar, theater, billiard room, fitness center, spa and pool.

The ground floor on each of the end houses had a billiard room and a footman's station; the entertaining rooms were on the floor above.

Basketball courts, in-house gyms and billiard rooms are just a few examples of how companies are investing in their staff's well-being.

Nor did Patience Gray, learning to cook in the billiard room bedsit of a Gothic house, and later living "wild" in Apulia, "wizened and witchy-looking", skinning foxes and harvesting weeds.

Which one of these big houses will you and your many children -- plus grand piano and leather-topped billiard table -- call home?