To her London, Berlin, Paris were replicas of Constantinople, cosmopolitan Rookeries where one could meet interesting men.
"Command"
William McFee
A lot of caved-in old Rookeries; with everybody living on the second floor because the first one's so damp ye'd get your die-and-never-get-over-it if you lived in the basement, and the top floors so leaky that you go to bed under an umbrella; and they all braced up with iron clamps to keep 'em from falling into the canal, and not a square inch on any one of 'em clean enough to dry a shirt on!
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
For there ghosts walk-the stately, lavender-scented old villains and villainettes who made up New York's smart set a century and a quarter ago, when flats were called "Rookeries" and polite folk would scarce mention such things.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune