Halls

Examples

• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A little population occupied its halls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Everybody knows that when you close the dance halls you fill the parks. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She sent me under guard to this room just before the fighting began within the temple halls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thou hast earned one in the halls of Rotherwood, noble knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Halls of slavery, Ma, is mere stuff and nonsense,' returned the unmoved Irrepressible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then he pointed out with considerable vehemence that dance halls were an urgent social necessity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And it was made neater by there really being two halls in the house, a front 'un and a back 'un, besides the servants'. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Persia, with its cloth of gold, marble halls, and infinite wealth, is now a tomb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was amid such sounds that I had first courted the incomparable Dejah Thoris in the age-old marble halls of the dead city of Korad. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The dance halls, the social centers, the playgrounds, the reception of strangers--these can become instruments for civilizing sexual need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Some halls are so large that the reflected sounds cause a confusion of echoes, but this difficulty can be lessened by hanging draperies, which break the reflection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This is the building generally designated as the Halls of the Montezumas. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Slowly we moved through endless corridors of unthinkable beauty; through magnificent apartments, and noble halls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To Rotherwood will I come, brave Saxon, and that speedily; but, as now, pressing matters of moment detain me from your halls. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The air which reaches halls and rooms is therefore warm, in spite of its long journey from the cellar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Many a haughty step bends to your halls, Many a helmed head. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We could not again visit the halls and familiar chambers of our home, on a mere visit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In one of these long Pompeiian halls the skeleton of a man was found, with ten pieces of gold in one hand and a large key in the other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I went down the long halls, down the wide stairs, through the rooms to the bar. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Another gorgeous dinner awaits them on their return to the Veneering halls, and Lady Tippins awaits them, and Boots and Brewer await them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Shall we, in these desart halls, under this wintry sky, sit with closed eyes and folded hands, expecting death? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Let your blades drink blood like wine; Feast ye in the banquet of slaughter, By the light of the blazing halls! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• While this scene was passing in the cabin of the man, one quite otherwise passed in the halls of the master. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Typist: Ludwig