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Example sentences for "great hall"

  • The high priest who held the beads turned to the right and entered a great hall, the walls and columns of which were covered with inscriptions and figures.

  • That was a great hall, lighted through an opening in the roof.

  • From the entrance it went into a great hall, painted in the color of the sky, and ornamented with golden stars.

  • The Prince began at once to descend the steps, and found himself in a great hall where a row of black slaves were sleeping soundly, guarding the entrance to a room beyond.

  • Lord Walter threw the reins to a squire, and led his people into the great hall of the castle.

  • In the midst I would have a great hall, whose walls shall be of gold and silver, lighted by four-and-twenty windows.

  • The servants brought him into a great hall, where a number of people sat round a table, covered with all sorts of savoury dishes.

  • She introduced them into a great hall, where she prayed them to be seated.

  • My bride and I were introduced into a great hall, where we were placed upon two thrones.

  • Chehl Minar, or Great Hall of Audience, which is also called the Hall of Xerxes, was the most remarkable of all these edifices.

  • Ukhaiḍir, vault of south-west stair out of great hall.

  • In this connexion the possibility that Nebuchadnezzar’s great hall at Babylon may have been covered with a vault should not be overlooked.

  • The eunuch opened it, and introduced him into a great hall, whence was an entrance into the princess's apartment, divided from it only by a piece of tapestry.

  • Mr. Sherwood's Great Hall, seventeen feet by sixteen in size, was rented in 1685 by the Government of Virginia and used as a Council Room by His Majesty's Governor and Council.

  • Even the floor beams were pegged to the rafters so that the roof on a stormy night would not part company with the "Great Hall.

  • It could never be so nice," said Nelly, "to dance in a great hall among a lot of people as to dance up here, all by ourselves.

  • He led the way upstairs into another great hall, where there was the grinding of machinery and another smell, sweet and heavy.

  • They entered a great hall remarkable at first for a curious smell, not offensive, but strong and rather pungent.

  • There he beheld a great hall, and four large and lofty chambers, each one fronting another, wide, decorated with gold and silver and with various colours.

  • The chapel consists of a great hall with a vaulted roof, and over the altar is a large painting in fresco, the subject of which I did not trouble myself to make out.

  • Under her guidance, I went into what was formerly the great hall of the establishment, where King James I.

  • We may fairly suppose it to have been the throne-room or great hall of audience of the early king who built the South-eastern Palace.

  • The later and larger court is less regular, its chief feature being the +Great Hall+ of the Order, in two aisles.

  • SCENE 6 Great hall in the palace of Tupac Yupanqui.

  • SCENE 3 Great hall in the palace of Pachacuti.

  • SCENE 2 Great hall of the palace of Tupac Yupanqui.

  • SCENE 2 A great hall in the Colcampata, then the palace of the Queen or Ccoya Anahuarqui.

  • The "great hall" had, of course, already been fitted up for the acting of plays, and the new lessees did not at first contemplate any expenditure on the building.

  • The "great hall" here mentioned, once the refectory of the monks, was made into the playhouse.

  • Maria degli Angeli, which was in fact a great hall of a Roman house.

  • The 1st Room entered is a great hall--to which pictures are removed for copying.

  • Hence we enter the Great Hall, a truly grand room, hung with mirrors and painted with flowers by Mario de' Fiori, and with genii by Maratta.

  • Passing through a great hall, one hundred and ninety feet long, we are shown a number of rooms fitted up by Pius VII.


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