Thomson Widows and Widowers|volume=I|page=187|passage=Mr. Lawson conducting Adeline, they passed into the morning-room, from the windows of which the varied features of the Dale were seen.
Wilde Dorian Gray|page=187|passage=It was almost nine o’clock before he reached the club, where he found Lord Henry sitting alone, in the morning-room, looking very much bored.
1984, John Martin Robinson, The Latest Country Houses Chapter Mods and Baroquers, It is significant, for example, that Evelyn Waugh in a Handful of Dust treats a Syrie Maugham-type scheme as a temporary aberration wholly inimical to the spirit of the house when Tony Last allows his wife Brenda to employ the horrible Mrs Beaver to destroy the Victorian morning-room at Hetton Abbey and replace it with a horror of chrome plate and white sheepskin.
