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  • Several people, Poirot amongst them, remained in the dining-car. The communal life was felt, at the moment, to pass the time better.   (source)
    communal = in a group
  • Every morning my father trudged up a flight of stairs to the communal shower in nothing but a small white towel.†   (source)
  • Ringed with dense vegetation, this island formed a protected sanctuary where herds of herbivorous duckbilled dinosaurs laid their eggs in communal nests, and raised their squeaking young.†   (source)
  • With no running water, we'd started using the apartments we'd broken into on the fifth floor as the communal latrine to maintain some sanitation.†   (source)
  • Thus was born the golden age of the prefabricated, cement-walled, five-story apartment building—and the four-hundred-square-foot living spaces with ready access to communal bathrooms boasting four-foot tubs (after all, who has time to lie down in a bath when your neighbors are knocking at the door).†   (source)
  • Once she had floured the dough, she wrapped it in a moist cloth, put on a hijab, and set out for the communal tandoor.†   (source)
  • After their mother's death, the two boys were sent off to a small hotel in the Connecticut woods where several families shared a large cabin and a communal kitchen.†   (source)
  • Most had dressed with the same communal propriety they felt on Sundays before attending church services, and since the courtroom, however stark, mirrored in their hearts the dignity of their prayer houses, they conducted themselves with churchgoing solemnity.†   (source)
  • We're not asking for anything but permission to remove an eyesore and transform a communal place.†   (source)
  • In the far left corner of the locker room was a small doorway that opened into a communal shower stall.†   (source)
  • There were four floors of boys' rooms, the communal showers and urinals and crapper stalls on every floor, and one faculty apartment at the end of the hall on each floor, too.†   (source)
  • He described the village for the infected as a huge set of rings within rings, with all the communal areas—cafeteria, infirmary, recreation facilities—located in the middle and then row upon row of poorly built housing encircling them.†   (source)
  • For a moment it was as if the silence had fallen across the entire planet ....everyone in front of their TVs rigid, a communal holding of breath.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when he went to big village meetings or communal ancestral feasts he allowed Ikemefuna to accompany him, like a son, carrying his stool and his goatskin bag.†   (source)
  • Communal sing-alongs had a faintly coercive quality—that way strangers had of catching each other's eye as their voices rose—which she was determined to resist.†   (source)
  • All the neighbors were saying that a knife had been found in the communal garbage bin.†   (source)
  • He sat down among the evidence at a barren communal desk in the basement of the station.†   (source)
  • The Marxists worked from within the communal divides, never challenging them, never appearing not to.†   (source)
  • Massachusetts tried to kill off the Puritans, but they combined; they set up a communal society which, in the beginning, was little more than an armed camp with an autocratic and very devoted leadership.†   (source)
  • "You didn't have to pour it on my head," I said, fumbling for my specs and reaching for the first pair of pants I saw from the communal heap of dirty laundry on the floor.†   (source)
  • All the girls at Wickshire, it was like they'd been raised communally—the lingo, the clothes, the hair.†   (source)
  • The image that remains in my mind from that first year is an unusually communal one: the night we gathered on the Commons to watch the seedship leave.†   (source)
  • To risk sex in these surroundings was to risk shameful humiliation at the communal breakfast table the next morning.†   (source)
  • It had electric light and gas, But no water; water was fetched from a communal tap on the landing, and the communal lavatory was there too.†   (source)
  • When I finished putting my clothes in the old pine dresser, I took my bag of bathroom necessities and went to the communal bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, they sit at a communal round table, drinking punch and eating cookies, taking naps on little orange cushions on the floor.†   (source)
  • Again, he is not interested so much in the individual sufferer as he is in the communal aspect and the philosophical possibilities.†   (source)
  • I drag a couple of patio chairs in from the communal kitchen down the hall.†   (source)
  • As he was entering his teens, Saeed's father asked Saeed if he would like to accompany him to the weekly communal prayer.†   (source)
  • Most of them are accessed via a communal loading dock that leads to a maze of wide corrugated-steel hallways and freight elevators.†   (source)
  • They have a communal head, a kind of a pit, out on the edge of the houses.†   (source)
  • Twenty cabins lined the central green where the communal hearth fire glowed cheerfully.†   (source)
  • In accordance with his instructions, his ashen body was mingled with others in the communal cemetery and was not seen by anyone who loved him.†   (source)
  • I hadn't thought anybody but the doctor himself would ask me that, and the communal waiting room was full of other patients waiting for other doctors, most of them pregnant or with babies, and I felt their eyes on my flat, virgin stomach.†   (source)
  • Thus do you remain immersed in the communal tau.†   (source)
  • And as he'd assured Paul and Sandy, Brookline was no longer an asylum; it had closed its doors in 1972 when the college purchased it to make a functional dorm with co-ed floors and communal bathrooms.†   (source)
  • Exercising my only option, I unclipped from the communal safety line and stepped aside.†   (source)
  • Not in a communal House of Rock anymore.†   (source)
  • They feel a sense of renewal, of communal recognition.†   (source)
  • The doors were not locked in the dormitory-style housing, which consisted of bunk beds, lockers, and a communal bathroom.†   (source)
  • Warnings were delivered communally, for even though there was usually the offending daughter of the moment, every woman's character could use extra scolding.†   (source)
  • We ate with our fingers from this communal dish.†   (source)
  • He must have barely known him, always being up to his neck in communal affairs and not knowledgeable in family matters.†   (source)
  • There was no lamp; instead, a single bulb protruded from the ceiling and the communal bathroom was down the hall.†   (source)
  • They were going to a communal kitchen for supper for all.†   (source)
  • But Zanmi Lasante had built schools and houses and communal sanitation and water systems throughout its catchment area.†   (source)
  • We have a communal kitchen with human-sized jars of oil and cooking fat, enough to burn for a month without our skipping a single fried meal.†   (source)
  • Extracurricular prison cooking happened primarily in two communal microwaves that were placed in kitchenette areas between the Dorms; their use was a privilege the staff constantly (and with great enjoyment) threatened to revoke.†   (source)
  • My guess is that one of them is for sleeping, another for communal use, and maybe the small one for storage.†   (source)
  • Already without family, she was further isolated from her people, for, except for the relative bliss on the island, every other resource was denied her: partnership in marriage, confessional friendship, and communal religion.†   (source)
  • For two years between the ages of eight and ten, you lived in a communal home while your parents were searched for.†   (source)
  • It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger public, or communal identity.†   (source)
  • But I found myself strongly drawn to the idea of a classless society, which, to my mind, was similar to traditional African culture where life was shared and communal.†   (source)
  • "Exercises?" came the communal groan.†   (source)
  • After road work, there were Turkish baths, where jockeys congregated for mornings of communal sweating.†   (source)
  • They had time for everything they wanted, but no time for people or for any communal campus activities.†   (source)
  • I've come to appreciate once again that communal reflection about life's deeper matters is sustaining and uplifting and provides a consistent nudge in worthy directions.†   (source)
  • A lot of cooking was done communally too, with all the girls gathering to roll dumplings, which were steamed and then dipped in soy sauce mixed with lemon juice and chili oil.†   (source)
  • They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.†   (source)
  • Some had chosen to entomb the remains of their loved ones in niches in the walls of communal mausoleums.†   (source)
  • Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.†   (source)
  • The late money says it's the Indians, who so despise Korean competition, it's the Jews envious of new Korean money, Chinese hateful of Korean communality, blacks who want something, anything of justice, it's the uneasy coalition of our colors, that oldest strife of city and alley and schoolyard.†   (source)
  • A communal protest this time, the first of my socialist tendencies.†   (source)
  • For some school paper, my daddy once wrote, "Between farmers, there is that communality of souls.†   (source)
  • A cordon of waist-high bookcases lined three walls, their shelves cram-jammed and literally sagging with books—children's books, textbooks, second-hand books, Book Club books, plus an even more heterogeneous overflow from less communal "annexes" of the apartment.†   (source)
  • The Horvath are a very monolithic and communal culture.†   (source)
  • She was assigned a private room—the former quarters of a junior Syrian officer—and that evening, after prayers, she took her first meal in the communal dining hall.†   (source)
  • Moreover, their desire for domesticity and the companionship of other adults, as well as pups, is apparently met by the communal nature of the family group.†   (source)
  • "If this disturbs you," Mark said, choosing his words carefully, "we can build a large communal grave and in it we can place all the boxes and the broken carvings.†   (source)
  • Around the little fires where communal stew bubbled there was all manner of talk and only the personal was unmentionable.†   (source)
  • Bird can call to bird, and animal to animal; mother dingoes can sacrifice themselves for their young; termites can live in highly-organized communal tovms.†   (source)
  • His paper, with its report of a herd of ten thousand duckbilled dinosaurs living along the shore of a vast inland sea, building communal nests of eggs in the mud, raising their infant dinosaurs in the herd, made Grant a celebrity overnight.†   (source)
  • Abdullah gathered an armful of slim branches and carried them to a growing communal pile nearby.†   (source)
  • The hallway had become our communal living room, a place to gather together and chat.†   (source)
  • I expected the dogs to be running free in unbridled, communal harmony.†   (source)
  • My final request was to be taken out to the communal head for a pee.†   (source)
  • They lived communally and believed that physical and spiritual deanliness were intimately connected.†   (source)
  • Everyone wore plastic bibs, cracking crabs from the communal buckets and eating with their fingers.†   (source)
  • The precolonial practice of enforced communal labor was greatly extended.†   (source)
  • That was her communal pet name for whoever was in her favor.†   (source)
  • On Mondays we gathered at the nurses' quarters for a communal dinner at their invitation.†   (source)
  • At Pollsmoor, Iwould wake up at five and do an hour and a half of exercise in our communal cell.†   (source)
  • We are both communal and uniquely ourselves, not either/or.†   (source)
  • There was a dressing room adjacent to a communal shower, and there was a lot of steam.†   (source)
  • She slept in the main dormitory over the communal kitchen.†   (source)
  • The people of this region are their own communal grouping, connected to but not of the cities.†   (source)
  • Abdullah, who spent hours every week lugging buckets of water from Shadbagh's communal well, marveled at a life where water was just a twist of the hand away.†   (source)
  • There was a communal gasp.†   (source)
  • Shopping was forbidden on the Sabbath—I'd never purchased so much as a stick of gum on a Sunday—but Mary casually unpacked eggs, milk and pasta without acknowledging that every item she was placing in our communal fridge was a violation of the Lord's Commandments.†   (source)
  • Most communal ceremonies took place at that time of the day, so that even when it was said that a ceremony would begin "after the midday meal" everyone understood that it would begin a long time later, when the sun's heat had softened.†   (source)
  • He and Nyssa had spread war maps across a card table and were shouting targeting coordinates, while Chiara, Damien, Paolo, and Billie rushed to set up ballistae around the communal hearth.†   (source)
  • After the first two weeks of the cholera epidemic, the cemetery was overflowing and there was no room left in the churches despite the fact that they had dispatched the decayed remains of many nameless civic heroes to the communal ossuary.†   (source)
  • And at iftar, when the sun dipped in the west and the cannon fired from the Shir Darwaza mountain, the city broke its fast, and so did Mariam, with bread and a date, tasting for the first time in her fifteen years the sweetness of sharing in a communal experience.†   (source)
  • Saeed would seek her out in the mornings, when he arrived for work, and they would talk and smile sidelong, and she might touch his elbow, and they would sit together at the communal lunch, and in the evenings when their work was done for the day they would walk through Marin, hike up and down the paths and the streets that were forming, and once they walked past Saeed's shanty, and he told her it was his, and the next time they walked by she asked to see the inside of it, and they went in, arid they shut the plastic flap behind them.†   (source)
  • Then, there in the middle of the communal catharsis, I found it: a public apology from the young driver, Jamie Bardol.†   (source)
  • The main hallway had become a communal space, with couches serving as beds toward each end and chairs arranged around two coffee tables in the middle.†   (source)
  • Everything here is communal, including the cooking, so I guess everyone was just crowded in together in the undamaged houses, out of the rain.†   (source)
  • When the flames take hold, she fills a pail with water from Shadbagh's communal well and sets it to heat.†   (source)
  • While this laver of nativeness was not vast in proportion to the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it, and unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils, and to which Saeed in particular was attracted, since at a place of worship where he had gone one Friday the communal prayer was led by a man who came from this tradition and spoke of this tradition, and Saeed had found, in the weeks he and Nadia had been in Marin, this man's words to be full of soul-soothing wisdom.†   (source)
  • I talked to the steady stream of visitors who showed up to pay their respects, interviewed locals who remembered the force of the explosion, sat with a woman who had lost her daughter in a car accident and who came to the crash site to find solace in communal grief.†   (source)
  • that prayer linked him to, and it was so important to express it, and somehow he was able to express it to the preacher's daughter, the first time they had a proper conversation, at a small ceremony he happened upon after work, which turned out to be a remembrance for her mother, who had been from Saeed's country, and was prayed for communally on each anniversary of her death, and her daughter, who was also the preacher's daughter, said to Saeed, who was standing near her, so tell me about my mother's country, and when Saeed spoke he did not mean to but he spoke of his own mother, and he spoke for a long time, and the preacher's daughter spoke for a long time, and when they finishe†   (source)
  • They watch Pirates of the Caribbean, the boys, delighted by the technology, sitting on either side of him, eating from the communal bucket of popcorn on his lap.†   (source)
  • Behind their communal tent I found Mrs. Matsui, crouched over a dented washing pail of gray water, wringing undershirts.†   (source)
  • The smell was still distinct, completely reminiscent of his Soviet experience, only less farshtinkener than his personal output, a bit toned down, and it was not coming from a sewer main break or a communal toilet of the homeless.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal of reshuffling to be done in Jeb's caves, and the move to the big game room-now the communal sleeping quarters-was good preparation for more permanent arrangements to follow.†   (source)
  • She wondered whether someone's diapers hung on a clothesline made of the motor's missing wires-whether its wheels had become a rope pulley over a communal well-whether its cylinder was now a pot containing geraniums on the window sill of the sweetheart of the man with the whiskey bottle.†   (source)
  • The great work of containing the blaze went on, a labor that seemed as old and lost as cathedral-building, the men driven by a spirit of lofty communal craft.†   (source)
  • They saw a man who'd cut his eyeball out of its socket because it contained a satanic symbol, a five-pointed star, and Edgar talked to this one, he'd popped the eyeball from his head and then severed the connecting tendons with a knife, and she talked to him in English and understood what he said although he spoke a language, a dialect none of them had ever heard—finally flushing the eye down the communal toilet outside his cubbyhole.†   (source)
  • This was the best way to be penitent, to pour my energy into the communal meal that we would all be sharing soon, even though most of us would rather be someplace else.†   (source)
  • WOMEN LIKE YOU
    (the communal poem—Sigiri Graffiti, 5th century)
    They do not stir
    these ladies of the mountain
    do not give us
    the twitch of eyelids.†   (source)
  • That's what I meant when I said the robes are a distraction—the robes, the shaved heads, the earrings, the visible communal enclaves.†   (source)
  • There were people already there and others started arriving and there was a pungent trail in the air, the root aroma of marijuana rolled and toked communally, and a sense of some event not unlike the showing of a midnight film, only not SO loose a group—a little beady-eyed, these people, wary of their own anticipation.†   (source)
  • When the three fools found the communal kitchen, whose main job was to make lunch for workers in the slaughterhouse, everybody had gone home but one woman who had been waiting for them impatiently.†   (source)
  • Baby sister Fifi and my sweet-natured cousin Carmencita were everyone's favorites, a helpful little pair, good for errands, turning jump ropes, and being captured when the large communal yard we played in was transformed into the old West by cowboy Mundin and cowgirl me.†   (source)
  • Only Heinrich stayed away, either because he distrusted wholesome communal pleasures or because he believed there was something ominous in the modern sunset.†   (source)
  • In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism.†   (source)
  • You may be looking upon our cities as sort of communal groups for which the people of this region are gatherers.†   (source)
  • He could see the clusters of trees that marked the sites of Cange's communal water fountains, connected to the sparkling clean underground river.†   (source)
  • The scent on his clothes, on his person, was a coarse, communal odor that made me sad, because it spoke of his degradation.†   (source)
  • In many ways I was more prepared to live in close quarters with a bunch of women than some of my fellow prisoners, who were driven crazy by communal female living.†   (source)
  • It is like communal sleep.†   (source)
  • It's a form of communal ego.†   (source)
  • He could see some of Père Lafontant's communal latrines, which had all but eradicated typhoid in this village.†   (source)
  • As a government-appointed chief, he was eligible for a stipend as well as a portion of the fees the government levied on the community for vaccination of livestock and communal grazing land.†   (source)
  • The engineers devised a plan to use the force of that river to carry its own water in a pipe up to communal water spigots that would be constructed in Cange.†   (source)
  • The two convents reopened and their communal life was resumed.†   (source)
  • The vision of a communal world had sunk down into his soul and it would never leave him until life left him.†   (source)
  • precede him as he dismounted and out of which he said 'Well, daughter' and stooped and touched his beard to Judith's forehead, who had not, did not, move, who stood rigid and still and immobile of face, and within which they spoke four sentences, four sentences of simple direct words behind beneath above which I felt that same rapport of communal blood which I had sensed that day while Clytie held me from the stairs: 'Henry's not ?'†   (source)
  • They stopped just west of the pueblo a little before sunset,—a pueblo very different from all the others the Bishop had visited; two large communal houses, shaped like pyramids, gold-coloured in the afternoon light, with the purple mountain lying just behind them.†   (source)
  • He explained that the decadence of architecture had come when private property replaced the communal spirit of the Middle Ages, and that the selfishness of individual owners—who built for no purpose save to satisfy their own bad taste, "all claim to an individual taste is bad taste"—had ruined the planned effect of cities.†   (source)
  • This Escalator-Squash champion, this indefatigable lover (it was said that he had had six hundred and forty different girls in under four years), this admirable committee man and best mixer had realized quite suddenly that sport, women, communal activities were only, so far as he was concerned, second bests.†   (source)
  • She and the Pattons and the fellow who was stuck on her, and God knew who else, were going to pile into the car and drive forty miles to La Grange, a joint in the next county, on the road to the city, where there were a few dice tables and a couple of roulette wheels and where the best people rubbed shoulders with the worst and inhaled a communal blue fog of throat-lacerating tobacco smoke and illicit alcohol fumes.†   (source)
  • never reached the church since the daughter (the woman of thirty now and looking older, not as the weak grow old, either enclosed in a static ballooning of already lifeless flesh or through a series of stages of gradual collapsing whose particles adhere not to some iron and still impervious framework but to one another as though in some communal and oblivious and mindless life of their own like a colony of maggots, but as the demon himself had grown old with a kind of condensation, an anguished emergence of the primary indomitable ossification which the soft color and texture, the light electric aura of youth, had merely temporarily assuaged but never concealed—the spinster in homemad†   (source)
  • At Malpais he had suffered because they had shut him out from the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized London he was suffering because he could never escape from those communal activities, never be quietly alone.†   (source)
  • The first year, he sowed wheat on his share of the Communal land, and had a good crop.†   (source)
  • So it's both anonymous and communal," Hans Castorp said.†   (source)
  • Nothing keeps them in order but their own communal court and their village elder.†   (source)
  • But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.†   (source)
  • It was indeed miserable to be poor—to look forward to a shabby, anxious middle-age, leading by dreary degrees of economy and self-denial to gradual absorption in the dingy communal existence of the boarding-house.†   (source)
  • He appealed to them most civilly, but they still went on: now the Communal herdsmen would let the village cows stray into his meadows; then horses from the night pasture would get among his corn.†   (source)
  • The superintendent was a bookish, underfed man who worked hard at rousing artificial enthusiasm, at trying to make the audience cheer by dividing them into competitive squads and telling them that they were intelligent and made splendid communal noises.†   (source)
  • He now gazed out across the room where people were coming and going: early breakfast was not a strictly communal affair.†   (source)
  • It struck him coming back from the East—the efficiency, the organisation, the communal spirit of London.†   (source)
  • In six years at Mohalis, Martin had gone to less than a score of dances, though the refined titillations of communal embracing were the chief delight of the co-educational university.†   (source)
  • For, though women, as I see them, have little or no feeling of responsibility towards a county or a country or a career—although they may be entirely lacking in any kind of communal solidarity—they have an immense and automatically working instinct that attaches them to the interest of womanhood.†   (source)
  • He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.†   (source)
  • Of the Communal land alone he had three times as much as at his former home, and the land was good corn-land.†   (source)
  • There is no miracle-worker, no Mr. Individual Creator behind it—it is an anonymous, communal work of art.†   (source)
  • Five shares of Communal land were given him for his own and his sons' use: that is to say—125 acres (not altogether, but in different fields) besides the use of the Communal pasture.†   (source)
  • And just before that you mentioned 'anonymous and communal,' which also appears worth some serious thought.†   (source)
  • The peasants had plenty of land: every man had twentyfive acres of Communal land given him for his use, and any one who had money could buy, besides, at fifty-cents an acre as much good freehold land as he wanted.†   (source)
  • But if that was the case, Hans Castorp thought, how did that square with "anonymous and communal"—just to select one of the many contradictions?†   (source)
  • He wanted to go on sowing wheat, but had not enough Communal land for the purpose, and what he had already used was not available; for in those parts wheat is only sown on virgin soil or on fallow land.†   (source)
  • They discussed the communal gift that, following an old institutional custom, would be presented to Director Behrens on Christmas Eve and for which a collection was being started.†   (source)
  • When he stood up from one communal meal, Hans Castorp was already delighting in the next—insofar as "delighting" was the right word, and not too cheery, simple, light, or common a word for the anticipation bound up with being together again with a lady as ill as Frau Clavdia Chauchat.†   (source)
  • His own table was full, except for the seat at the head opposite him, which, as he was told, was reserved for the doctors Because whenever their schedules allowed, the physicians took part in communal meals, but at a different table every time—and a place was kept free for them at the head of each one.†   (source)
  • We dream anonymously and communally, though each in his own way...The great soul, of which we are just a little piece, dreams through us so to speak, dreams in our many different ways its own eternal, secret dream—about its youth, its hope, its joy, its peace, and its bloody feast.†   (source)
  • "To be a soldier, just a soldier!" thought Pierre as he fell asleep, "to enter communal life completely, to be imbued by what makes them what they are.†   (source)
  • When the hope of realising a communal condition of life for all men arose, quite late in the nineteenth century, the power of the middle classes, the then tyrants of society, was so enormous and crushing, that to almost all men, even those who had, you may say despite themselves, despite their reason and judgment, conceived such hopes, it seemed a dream.†   (source)
  • We are acquainted with the sum total of the charges of the State; we know the amount of the departmental expenditure; but the expenses of the communal divisions have not been computed, and the amount of the public expenses of France is consequently unknown.†   (source)
  • Captain Nemo and his men had come to bury their companion in this communal resting place on the inaccessible ocean floor!†   (source)
  • The railway having disappeared, and therewith the various level bridges over the streams of Thames, we were soon through Medley Lock and in the wide water that washes Port Meadow, with its numerous population of geese nowise diminished; and I thought with interest how its name and use had survived from the older imperfect communal period, through the time of the confused struggle and tyranny of the rights of property, into the present rest and happiness of complete Communism.†   (source)
  • These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life.†   (source)
  • Neglecting here the originalities, of secondary importance in old Paris, and the capricious regulations regarding the public highways, we will say, from a general point of view, taking only masses and the whole group, in this chaos of communal jurisdictions, that the island belonged to the bishop, the right bank to the provost of the merchants, the left bank to the Rector; over all ruled the provost of Paris, a royal not a municipal official.†   (source)
  • Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches, rich in painted windows and sculpture; pointed in form, bold in attitude; communal and bourgeois as political symbols; free, capricious, lawless, as a work of art; second transformation of architecture, no longer hieroglyphic, immovable and sacerdotal, but artistic, progressive, and popular, which begins at the return from the crusades, and ends with Louis IX.†   (source)
  • It was the hog-butchering season, atime of communal festivals which ended the long harvest season.†   (source)
  • We returned them to their rooming house and were invited into the communal parlor for genteel conversation.†   (source)
  • Suppose that communal kitchen years to come perhaps.†   (source)
  • She washed her clothes in communal tubs, went to jamaicas on Saturday nights, and cared for her first three daughters.   (source)
    communal = shared
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