It was little consolation to me, that I returned a proprietor to the halls which I had left almost like a fugitive.
And so the traveler up the Nile, and into the domains of far off Nubia, is continually meeting with these vast rock temples, monuments of the Egyptian kings on the one hand, tombs of the nobility on the other, and worshiping halls for all.
And when the theatres and music-halls closed, men and women went on their way home quietly discussing the tremendous tidings which had been officially announced.
The higher class of houses or halls consisted of many chambers, and not infrequently there was a private chapel, and the rooms were wainscoted.
Most of the halls disappeared for ever, and from that time Oxford passed out of the hands of the poor man, Christ Church as the royal college becoming the special home of the gilded youth.
Among the Halls that the Priors possessed, Brend Hall was in 1438 made over to Lincoln College; Urban Hall and Bekes Inn were bought by Bishop Fox to procure a site for Corpus Christi College.
Its halls are now almost silent, and grass is growing in its courts, which were once daily thronged by at least eight thousand students; a number to which, at the present day, the entire population of the city does not amount.
They followed Mesmer through the halls and confessed that it was impossible not to be warmly attached to the person of the magnetizer.
In the large hotels, where they have immense banquet halls with the tables numbered so that guests may be able to find their places, I have often noted that there was no table number thirteen.
Everywhere are seen in these gloomy and unwholesome halls and corridors "the austere and consoling figures" of the Sisters of Marie-Joseph.
This gallery gives access to the halls of audiences of the three Chambres of the Cour de Cassation and the Galerie Saint-Louis.
Of course you get used to it all in a few days, and eventually cease to tumble down over the odd step that is obligingly placed here and there in dark spots, wherever the floor level changes in the halls or landings.
The Captain returned to his Regiment and Lord Arthur went on to the Riviera to while away the few remaining days and to get extra advertisement out of not appearing at his halls through indisposition.
Quadrangle opens out of quadrangle, shut in by rows of unpretentious buildings, whose monotony is broken by Gothic chapels or Tudor dining-halls surmounted by carved cupolas.
Within these richly tapestried and stately halls a few months later, the "little great lord cardinal" bade a long farewell to all his greatness, and with a heavy heart entered his barge at the foot of Whitehall stairs.
The Countess of Pembroke, sister of Sir Philip Sidney and friend of Ben Jonson, once lived as mistress in the halls of Crosby Place.
In addition to these doles, huge baskets of fragments from the three tables in the long dining-halls sufficed, as Strype tells us, "to fill the bellies of a great number of hungry people that waited at the gate.
Its "louvre," or opening in the roof, is found in ancient halls in lieu of a chimney.
American tourists, who find their way to the spacious grounds of Jesus College to see the Burne-Jones and Morris windows in the chapel, will be glad to note that in these stately halls John Eliot walked a student.
The man who had once walked through the stately halls of Raby Castle as its master found a Tower cell his last earthly abiding-place.
At first these rare materials were used with a degree of moderation, chiefly in the form of mosaics of small discs or cubes for the pavements of halls and courts.
Among the bourgeoisie, dances, balls and picnics were the order of the Lord's Day, while the lower classes thronged the beer gardens and the beer halls that constitute so important a feature of German life.
The various halls and rooms are kept nearly in the same manner, indeed, as when he used them.
I tread in Orient halls enchanted, I dream the Saga's dream of caves Gem-lit beneath the North Sea waves!
Nor how the pomp of sunrise waits On Venice at her watery gates; A dream alone to me is Arno's vale, And the Alhambra's halls are but a traveller's tale.
You're not looking very well, sir," said White, his round eyes fixed on Bruce with all their power.
Sir Charles Dyke was apparently in no way concerned with her movements, nor had she thought fit to consult him, beyond the mere politeness of announcing her probable absence from home at the dinner hour.
What other pretext could I invite for--for giving her up?
He was on the point of going out to drive, when he received a letter from Sir Charles Dyke.
The barrister's mobile face softened with pity as he looked at his afflicted friend.
The music-halls in 1891 reverberated with the name.
This was Peter's favorite resort, and its halls ever echoed with the carousings of the prince and his boon companions.
The empire bowed its head and became Christian; the bishops took the place of the prefects and senators of the past, and theological disputations raged in the halls of philosophy.
Its galleries and halls were hewn out of the rock, but never adorned with sculptures and paintings, and, except at the entrance, we have merely outline sketches, which were never filled in.
This makes us distrustful of the further statement of Herodotos that the halls contained one thousand five hundred chambers above the ground, and one thousand five hundred below.
But the Library of Alexandria was given in its stead; he saved himself by firing the docks and shipping, and the flames spread from the harbour to the halls of the Museum.
A lady will not stand or linger in the hallsof a hotel, will not loiter about the hotel office, or walk out alone upon the piazza or any conspicuous place, or stand at the windows of the parlor.
She will not go through the halls humming or singing, or take a book or newspaper from the public parlor and carry it off to her room, even if she does shortly return it.
The favourite amusement just then was disturbing music-halls and theatres, bar-rooms, and supper places in the West.
Graves met them at the station, and welcomed them to their abode in the grounds of the Fairy Halls of Alhambra.
That which I thought I was doing in the halls of my imprisonment I have really been doing within the possible world of God in which I might have been free.
But better loveth he His ancient halls than his hundred friends, His ancient halls, than thee, Margret, Margret.
Music halls have also grown up from the impromptu concerts in the taverns.
At Headcorn and Cranbrook, in the Weald of Kent, and again at Lavenham and Sudbury, in Suffolk, may be seen many beautiful examples of the halls of the craft guilds now derelict and converted to less noble purposes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
