Sentence examples for mess room from inspiring English sources
You eat your meals with the crew in the mess room.
When not playing chess in Henry's cabin or the mess room, I rest in my coffin until Homer lulls me into dreams a-billow with sails of Athenians.
They gather downstairs in the calm of the mess room, where the muffled blare of the ship's huge engine sounds like the throb of a distant club night.
At the beginning of my novel "The Whispering Muse," the two main narrators meet for the first time in the mess room of a freighter on its maiden journey from Denmark to the Black Sea.
As we swayed along, I suddenly recalled a passage from Shackleton's book, South, recounting the Endurance expedition: "May 24, Empire Day, was celebrated with the singing of patriotic songs in the 'Ritz'" – their nickname for the mess room.
"The officers' mess room with wooden boards and panelling lends itself to the traditional-style library where students can get used, perhaps for the first time in their lives, to an hour of study," Evans says.
Faslane has a hospital, shops, naval mess rooms and civilian canteens.
We gaze, from the upper walkway, in astonishment at Bausor's control panels, bed bunks, cabins, mess rooms, and the towering, periscope-like "search".
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, January 16 , 1943P. 59 LETTER FROM LONDON about: the new National Service bill; the Beveridge Report not allowed to be discussed in mess rooms; utility furniture for young couples; utility clothes... View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By Jia Tolentino By George Packer.
Though Anne doesn't write much about her day-to-day work in naval surveillance at Bletchley, the physical conditions are vivid: the food, the mess rooms, the "continuous running between the watch and our room to check up on maps and cards".
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, January 16 , 1943 P. 59LETTER FROM LONDON about: the new National Service bill; the Beveridge Report not allowed to be discussed in mess rooms; utility furniture for young couples; utility clothes... View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Joan Acocella.
