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Example sentences for "hall"

Lexicographically close words:
halfway; hali; halibut; halie; haling; halla; hallan; hallar; hallaron; halleluiah
  1. He, therefore, had to go through the hall again.

  2. And he announced, as though they were the numbers in a music-hall performance: "The prisoner's dance!

  3. He took up the receiver of the telephone which communicated with the hall of the hotel and said: "I'm No.

  4. Lupin walked briskly across the hall and opened the door of the drawing-room: "What are you talking about?

  5. But he at once rushed forward, crossed the best part of the hall and caught up his antagonist just as he was reaching the door opening on the garden.

  6. As soon as he had gone Beauty sat down in the great hall and began to cry.

  7. Entering a great hall they found there a magnificent collation.

  8. He handed her down from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company was assembled.

  9. Of two hundred of these which had been manufactured for the use of the Naval Wing many had been used in experiment; the remainder were hastily distributed by Lieutenant Clark Hall among the seaplane stations on the East Coast.

  10. To have kept the infant corps and all its doings in the public eye would have been as disastrous an experiment as to attempt to educate a child on the music-hall stage.

  11. It is long since the great chiefs of the nations have smoked the sweet grass in the council hall of the Saganaw.

  12. She found the servants' hall a more amusing place than the invalid's chamber and just now everybody wanted to hear the news from upstairs.

  13. You are not to begin playing with the animals in the servants' hall and keep them there.

  14. The servants' hall had been very tired of the tantrums, and the butler, who was a man with a family, had more than once expressed his opinion that the invalid would be all the better "for a good hiding.

  15. The hall was still chokingly full of gas; and after grabbing out the case, he slammed the door again.

  16. The latch on the front door snapped to and instantly the hall was flooded with light from a tremendous bulb in the ceiling, which, surprisingly, was twenty feet above him.

  17. The July daylight from outside showed him that he was in a tiny entrance hall not more than forty inches each way.

  18. In the tiny front hall she hesitated, then opened the door inward about eight inches.

  19. But between the street and the hall bedroom, with its odors of a gas-stove and a kitchen, the choice was difficult.

  20. As she crossed from the hall to the terrace, the ears of the spy were assaulted by a sudden tumult of voices.

  21. Garland had again reached the door to the outer hall before Everett called him back.

  22. The Kid jeered at us, and proudly described himself as the only Boy Reporter who jumped from a City Hall assignment to cover a European War.

  23. When that man has to choose between 'our military correspondent' and the City Hall Reporter, he chooses me!

  24. In the hall Marie met her elderly companion, Bertha, now her aunt, Madame Benet.

  25. In the order in which Marie had last seen them, Anfossi and the staff officer entered the room of General Andre, and upon the soldiers in the hall the door was shut.

  26. As she reached the lower hall the two officers entered.

  27. They've been married only two weeks now, and they're in a stuffy hall bedroom and eating with all the other boarders.

  28. After robbing the duchess of three suppers, Sam descended to the hall and from an attendant received his coat and hat, which latter the attendant offered him with the inside of the hat showing.

  29. Post himself cast a glance at the nearest photographs, and then hastily manoeuvred his client into the hall and closed the door.

  30. Now-a-days the hall is quite unused save as a receptacle for lumber, of which the most remarkable example is the remnant of a gigantic horse made by Donatello to travel on rollers in some old Paduan pageant.

  31. This great hall was Gothic inside and out until Palladio cased the front with open arcades, standing out from the walls and entirely concealing from below the old windows.

  32. They usually have a great hall in the centre of each floor, into which the various rooms open; and the windows of these halls are generally the most important in the elevation.

  33. At one end of the hall was the chapel of San Prodoscimo, formed I presume by screens.

  34. A week passed thus, and then the good-hearted and experienced Miss Blake hurried ponderously across the hall to put Teacher on her guard.

  35. A heavy footstep crossed the hall and the stalwart Abie Fishhandler stalked into Room 18, bearing the new boy in his arms.

  36. I said I had preached in the Masonic Temple in Chicago, so he offered to get the Masonic Hall for me.

  37. Then the man who let me use the Masonic Hall came in.

  38. The sleeping-hall is eighty-five by thirty yards long and accommodates 120 officers, our beds being, roughly, a yard apart.

  39. We will watch them as they enter some of the shops and public or private edifices; for every door, whether of alderman or beggar, church or hall of state, has been flung wide open by the same agency that swept away the inmates.

  40. On as fruitless an errand our wanderers next visit a Hall of Legislature, where Adam places Eve in the Speaker's chair, unconscious of the moral which he thus exemplifies.

  41. In memory's hall hangs the picture, And years of sad care are between; It hangs with a beautiful gilding, And well do I love it, I ween.

  42. If the hall adjoins the living room it is well to use the same floor covering as in the living room since this has a tendency to make both the hall and the living room appear larger.

  43. Hall furniture should reveal as much variety as is consistent with the necessary harmony.

  44. View from living room to hall in a city apartment.

  45. Venetian blinds harmonize with any period or setting and may be used on hall doors, kitchen, and bathroom windows as well as all other rooms of the house.

  46. The stair carpet should repeat the dominant color of the hall or room from which they ascend.

  47. Here are some practical suggestions: Linoleum is increasingly used for the hall since it permits the user to express her originality and good taste in many interesting forms.

  48. In the very small hall a large nest of tables can be used as a small console.

  49. If small rugs are used in the hall they may be of contrasting tone to the living room rug or may blend with the general color scheme.

  50. Where the hall and the adjoining room both are large, the walls may differ in hue; but marked difference in tone is unpleasant.

  51. He ran down the deserted hall toward the red lamp which he knew indicated the place of a fire-escape.

  52. And it isn't any better here in the Hall of Audience.

  53. The messenger came right into the great Rob Roy Hall of Audience, as excited as he could be, singing out, "Dispatch for Lady Gwendolen Sellers!

  54. In 1896 the appearance of The Seven Seas proved beyond cavil that he was something more than a music-hall rimester--that he was really among the English poets.

  55. I am not advocating the abandonment of the study of Homer and Vergil, or proposing to substitute in their stead the study of Hall Caine, Mrs. Ward, and Marie Corelli.

  56. Unitarians and the Future: the Essex Hall Lecture, 1894.

  57. Southworth, of Marie Corelli, and of Hall Caine.

  58. The foundations of two material buildings were laid, a town-hall and an hospital.

  59. Nay, master, the hall must be made ready.

  60. And when the hall is swept, go to your own house.

  61. Your hall would be very desolate if the boy were slain.

  62. Clerks, shopkeepers, attorneys, would meet of an afternoon at a hall taken for the purpose, and emerge thence in an hour or two singularly cool and fresh for men who had been practising athletics.

  63. In the lower hall of the house are still displayed the enormous antlers of an elk, a gift from these red men.

  64. These views are not duplicated in the wall-paper; the scene is continuous, passing from one end of the hall to the other, a panorama rich in color and incident.

  65. The hunt is centered about the hall and the game is run down and slain in the last sheet.

  66. The large picture in the lower hall is repeated at the landing.

  67. The example photographed was on a hall and stairway.

  68. Two of them are not even reproductions, as the one in the hall depicts the Paris Exposition of 1876, and that in the office gives scenes from the life of Buffalo Bill.

  69. Painted hall and stairway in an old house in High Street, Salem, Mass.

  70. Crossed arms and flags in the foreground, and a circular iron fence about the monument completed the picture, which was repeated in straight rows, making with its somber gray and black the most funereal hall and stairway imaginable.

  71. Hall of a homestead at Salem, Massachusetts, old when gas lights were introduced in Salem.

  72. The sleepy house-porter had curled himself up in the hall corner; the sonorous breathings of weary travelers might be heard through the open windows, for the night was warm and sultry.

  73. Wherever the English language is read, Ruth Hall will be eagerly read.

  74. He rushed into the hall and shouted, 'A terribly rare moth in the drive!

  75. Suppose that when he reached the hall there were two skeletons sitting on the hall chest?

  76. The hymn 'Faith of our Fathers' ringing through a Notting Dale mission-hall moved him to demand his birthright of family history.

  77. Michael and Chator followed Brother Ambrose through a pleasant book-lined hall into the paternal haunt where the Lord Abbot of Clere sat writing at a roll-top desk.

  78. The hall seemed full of footmen, one of whom took Michael's hat and another of whom led the way up a wide soft staircase that smelt like the inside of the South Kensington Museum.

  79. In the hall too Lily came out to see him off, and he besought her anxiously to assure him truthfully that to all these young men she was indifferent.

  80. In the entrance hall a ginger-haired foxy-faced man in a green uniform said sharply: "New boy?

  81. From the hall that every moment seemed to grow darker came a sound of ghostly applause.

  82. These dancing lessons took place in the hall at Randell's, and Michael revisited his old school with a new confidence.

  83. He would give a very loud knock and hang up a wide-brimmed black hat in the hall and clear his throat and button up his coat very tightly and march into the drawing-room to wait for Stella to be brought down.

  84. Every morning and every afternoon at a fatal moment the swinging doors of the lower end of the Hall would clash together, and the heavy tread of Dr.

  85. Oh, do bring Lily to my first concert, and I'll see you two alone of all the people in the Hall and play you so close together that you'll nearly faint.

  86. Once he was so frightened by a succession of these murder-shouts that he got out of bed and crept forth on to the landing, whence he peered down between the banisters into the quiet red light burning in the hall far below.

  87. It just happened that he saw Peter when he finally went down to the little bedchamber at the end of the long hall to curl up and try to go to sleep.

  88. Jimmy Skunk grinned, and then he crept a little way down the long hall and began to scratch with his stout claws, as if he were digging.

  89. After a little while, the noise in the long, dark hall stopped.

  90. Johnny Chuck had said that very same thing as he had gone down the long hall of his snug house, yet it would be a long, long time before spring, for it was not winter yet.

  91. If some one was digging in the long, dark hall, it could mean but one thing--that it must be some one too big to get in without making the hall larger; and the only ones he could think of were Bowser the Hound and Reddy and Granny Fox!


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