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The term "lounge" works both as a noun for a specific, often comfortable space and as a verb denoting relaxed repose throughout literature. It frequently depicts settings where characters gather or seek solace—a central, elaborately described room aboard a submarine [1, 2, 3] contrasts with more intimate, relaxed moments in drawing rooms or on decks [4, 5, 6]. In some works, it even suggests the act of reclining, as characters choose to settle themselves lazily on a piece of furniture, embodying a state of leisure or defensiveness against the world outside [7, 8]. Whether evoking a sense of sophisticated interior design aboard a vessel or the casual comfort of a domestic environment, "lounge" enriches the narrative by highlighting both physical setting and the emotional undertones of repose [9, 10, 11].
  1. Just then Captain Nemo opened a door facing the one by which I had entered the library, and I passed into an immense, splendidly lit lounge.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  2. Captain Nemo didn't reply but signaled me to follow him to the main lounge.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  3. When the Nautilus was ready to resume its underwater travels, I went below again to the lounge.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  4. Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its arm.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  5. Marie lay back on a lounge, and covered her face with her cambric handkerchief.
    — from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  6. she said to herself resolutely, shifting her seat in the lounge.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  7. As I lay on the lounge and my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I fancied I could see a long, dusky, shapeless thing stretched upon the floor.
    — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  8. Not finding Olga Ivanovna at home, my hero lay down on the lounge chair and proceeded to wait for her in the drawing-room.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  9. Zverkov stretched himself on a lounge and put one foot on a round table.
    — from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. It was like home to us to step on board the comfortable ship again and smoke and lounge about her breezy decks.
    — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  11. Just then the door to the main lounge opened and Captain Nemo appeared.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

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