It contained somewhere about 1,100 excellent seats in parquet (the Parisian parterre), dress circle and first tier, with some seven hundred in the gallery.
The conduct of the occupants of the boxes now grew to be so intolerable that there were frequent demonstrations of disapproval and rebuke from the listeners who sat in the parquet and balconies.
Besides the two tiers of boxes, as they exist at present, there were twelve baignoirs, six on a side at the stage ends of the parquet circle, so-called.
The crowds were only round the table, and the parquet flooring between looked more than usually vacant and dull.
In the centre of the floor was an oblong parquet sacred to dancing.
I have been speaking as if the parquet were floored; in fact, you have to sit close to the ground, mats and quilts of your own providing alone protecting you from the damp earth.
The parquet is divided into pits by bars, each admitting barely four persons in a squatting position; the bars can be removed, uniting the small pits into one large pit of any dimensions, if a party so desire.
She took a candle and we went on tiptoe to his room, Mother first taking off her high-heeled shoes, for they would tap on the parquet and make a noise.
Ariadne and I let out the poor things and they bounced straight out on to the parquet floor, and their feet slid from under them.
The salon of the Princess was a delightful room with a parquet floor, panelled and painted white, and the mahogany furniture was upholstered in a most beautiful tone of striped yellow satin.
It is even hinted also that there will be no disposition in an unmannerly parquet to hiss the interruption of Italian and French opera.
Then it suddenly flashed across him that it might be Sylvia who wanted to speak to him, or that there might be news about his mother, and his fingers leaped from the piano in the middle of a bar, and he ran and slid across the parquet floor.
That is better than rinking in your parquet hall, Mr Clay,' cried Horatia, clapping her hands.
The parquet is laid in divisions reproducing the design of the ceiling.
In 1793 this playhouse, of which the parquet occupied the ground floor of the Pavillon de Marsan, underwent a strange metamorphosis when it became the legislative hall for the National Convention.
Rugs had been rolled up, and the polished parquet floor was strewn with shirt buttons, reels of cotton, and torn papers of pins.
I heard Eagle's footsteps on the parquet floor of the vestibule.
He reaches out a hand for the tobacco-pouch and his glance falls upon the day's issue of the Siege Gazette lying on the parquet linoleum, where it has fallen from his hand a little while ago.
The design of the parquet floor should be simple and unobtrusive.
Next in merit to brick or marble comes the parquet of oak or other hard wood; but even this looks inadequate in rooms of great architectural importance.
The French, who brought this branch of floor-laying to perfection, would never have tolerated the crudely contrasted woods that make the modern parquet so aggressive.
Whoever was addressed by him bowed low, left a space of parquet between himself and papa, and answered soberly and with signs of gratification.
It was winter-time and cold, his little shoes were reflected in the glass-clear yellow squares of the parquet which spread like a sheet of ice before him.
The road was so greasy with mud that it might have been beeswaxed, and Stokes's boots, the nails of which had been worn down, kept slipping as on a parquet floor.
The maire resumed his dictation to the hypnotised clerk, while the officer sat astride a chair and executed an impatient pas seul with his heels upon the parquet floor.
The great opera house was densely crowded from pit to dome, the boxes andparquet brilliant with color and fashion, the numberless tiers of seats rising above, black with packed, expectant humanity.
The interior of the theatre was rectangular in shape, the parquet divided into square spaces separated by partitions about ten inches high.
Raised above the parquet on three sides of the hall was a double row of boxes, the fourth side being occupied by the stage.
He has his seat every night in the parquetof all the theaters in Paris.
The theater is very handsome; there are only boxes and the parquet; the Imperial Loge reaches from the first tier of boxes to the last seats of the parquet in the shape of a shell.
In Texas some of it is employed in the manufacture of parquet flooring.
It is now known to be suitable for parquetflooring and for brush backs, and the demand for the heartwood is as reliable as for the sapwood.
It is made into parquet flooring as well as the ordinary tongued and grooved article.
The heartwood is dark or red, and is made into brush backs and parquet flooring, but the hearts are small, and no large quantity of that wood is used.
Oregon maple is converted into flooring of the ordinary tongued and grooved kind, and also into parquet flooring.
And then, words failing him to express the half of what was in him, he lifted the bag high above his head, and hurled it at her feet with a force that sent half the glittering contents rolling about the parquet floor.
A wave of red seemed to sweep across her face, and her heel beat the parquet floor.
Phyllis turned a very brilliant color, and kept her eyes fixed on the parquet pattern of the floor.
He had his eyes fixed on the parquet of the floor.
Then, with short sliding steps, he came across the parquet and sat down beside her on the Empire settee.
He got himself clear of the door, moving with extended hands across its creaking parquet till he touched the cold smoothness of the tiled stove, and freezing to immobility as he heard the kitchen door open.
The great room, under the strong lights, showed the conventional desert of polishedparquet floor, with sparse furniture grouped about it.
