I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there isnot room enough to swing a cat.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  Letter from Matthew Bramble, 8 Jun, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.

The light in the window seemed perpetual Where you stayed in the high room for me

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'The Room AboveThe Square'.

And as she looked about, she did behold, How over that same door was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold† At last she spied at that room's upper end Another iron door, on which was writ Be not too bold.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto11, stanza 54.

'There is no terror, brotherToby, in its looks, but what it borrowsfromgroans and convulsionsöand theblowing of noses, and the wiping away of tears with the bottoms ofcurtains, ina dying man'sroomöStrip itofthese, what is it?'ö'Tis better in battle than in bed,'said my uncle Toby.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Of death.Tristram Shandy, bk.5, ch.3.

As an Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen, I retired to my room.

-Sterne, Laurence
  A SentimentalJourney,'Preface. In the Desobligeant'.

Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not a sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Peter Quince at the Clavier', pt.1.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Songs ofTravel (published1896), no.11, stanza1.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

-Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
  Letter, 26 Oct.

The way to ensuresummer in England istohaveitframed and glazed in a comfortable room.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter toWilliam Cole, 28 May. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; 892 early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  'An Englishman's Home'.

There is always room at the top.

-Webster, Daniel
On being advised against joining the overcrowded legal profession, attributed.

She was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  The House of Mirth, bk.1, ch.2.

She keeps on being Queenly in her own room, with the door shut.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  The House of Mirth, bk.2, ch.1.

Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  A Room of One's Own, ch.1.