Disraeli Sybil|volume=II|page=166|passage=The division bell was still ringing; peers and diplomatists and strangers were turned out; members came rushing in from library and smoking-room; some desperate cabs just arrived in time to land their passengers in the waiting-room.
1891, w:Oscar Wilde, w:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Chapter The Model Millionaire, That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
Wharton Codman Decoration|page=151|passage=The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; ...
1924, w:John Buchan, w:The Three Hostages Chapter Our Time is Narrowed, I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place.
1932, Alec Waugh , That American Woman , He saw marriage as a settling down to the serious business of life; a settling down that was symbolized in the large stuccoed house in St John's Wood Park, with its long mahogany dining-table, its family portraits, its oak-panelled smoking-room, its leather-bound books running in long, dusty rows from floor to ceiling; its drawing-room whose heavily brocaded windows looked out on a trim garden, its thick carpets, its kitchened basement, its high, wide bedrooms, its airy nursery.
1972 , , To-day - Volumes 5-7 , The most chairful of chairs are to be found in the smoking-rooms of clubs.
