Stalls
[stɔ:lz]
Examples
- I could spend all day every day at the stalls of the book fair as I once did in the days before the movement, if I ever could have any time in Madrid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Look at that infernal sly-boots of a Tapeworm, Fipps whispered, examining his chief from the stalls. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We were in the stalls, and for a few minutes there was a most terribleruthless pressure about us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He occupied an excellent place, some twelve or fourteen seats from the end of a bench, within three rows of the stalls. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Emmy and the Major blushed: we saw them from the stalls. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I went first to the barrier separating us from the stalls, and looked for the Count in that part of the theatre. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The banners of the knights of the garter, and their half drawn swords, were hung in vain emblazonry above the stalls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Assuredly, this stall of Silas Wegg's was the hardest little stall of all the sterile little stalls in London. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was a glimpse of two cattle in their dark stalls, then the door was shut again, and not a chink of light showed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had 40,000 stalls of horses which he brought out of Egypt. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The place was vast, naked, dreary; its court a barn, its galleries stalls for human horses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Ruth