"The dining-room's downstairs-that makes it roomier," he continued, throwing open at random a door.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
My companions scratched along, doing fairly well, too; but I led the field-I was so much roomier than any one of them was.
"One Third Off"
Irvin S. Cobb
Word being brought him that the royal commanders were lying in wait upon the coast of Pamphylia, with a numerous land army, and a large fleet, he determined to make the whole sea on this side the Chelidonian islands so formidable to them that they should never dare to show themselves in it; and setting off from Cnidos and the Triopian headland, with two hundred galleys, which had been originally built with particular care by Themistocles, for speed and rapid evolutions, and to which he now gave greater width and roomier decks along the sides to move to and fro upon, so as to allow a great number of full-armed soldiers to take part in the engagements and fight from them, he shaped his course first of all against the town of Phaselis, which, though inhabited by Greeks, yet would not quit the interests of Persia, but denied his galleys entrance into their port.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh