Like many other successful men in that country, Acton had begun life in a three-Roomed shanty, and now, when, at the age of fifty, he was in possession of a comfortable competence, he would have been well content to retire to his native settlement in the wilderness.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
It was approached by a drive between ancient oaks, limes, and evergreens, and at the entrance was a two-Roomed thatched cottage, long occupied by a hearty old couple employed on the place, so careful and watchful that an amusing incident occurred one day when our father and mother were away from home.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
As he Roomed upstairs, he could be found here at any hour of the day or night.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith