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Example sentences for "stalls"

Lexicographically close words:
stall; stalled; stalling; stallion; stallions; stalwart; stalwarts; stalworth; stam; stamen
  1. De Freyne kept an open eye on the stalls and boxes for any distinguished personage who might be there on her account.

  2. People in the stalls don't want to be reminded of graveyards.

  3. Bernard Meer was in the stalls that night.

  4. I've been listening for the last half hour to hear the stalls flying.

  5. They are in their own stalls by this time, my lady.

  6. I can see the tears now--oozing out between the finger-stalls of a pair of white-kid gloves he had been inspired to buy at the Bon Marche.

  7. There was a stairway between the stalls and the gallery.

  8. The rich revenues of cathedral chapters made the reversion of prebendal stalls the almost exclusive privilege of the higher nobility, notwithstanding the earnest opposition of the popes.

  9. Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

  10. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thousand for the saddle.

  11. Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for all beasts, and folds for cattle.

  12. In the stalls everyone clapped and shouted "bravo!

  13. At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard.

  14. As soon as it rose everyone in the boxes and stalls became silent, and all the men, old and young, in uniform and evening dress, and all the women with gems on their bare flesh, turned their whole attention with eager curiosity to the stage.

  15. The music sounded louder and through the door rows of brightly lit boxes in which ladies sat with bare arms and shoulders, and noisy stalls brilliant with uniforms, glittered before their eyes.

  16. In the stalls everyone began moving about, going out and coming in.

  17. During this act every time Natasha looked toward the stalls she saw Anatole Kuragin with an arm thrown across the back of his chair, staring at her.

  18. Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.

  19. Helene's box was filled and surrounded from the stalls by the most distinguished and intellectual men, who seemed to vie with one another in their wish to let everyone see that they knew her.

  20. The two habitues of the stalls nodded to one another their approbation of the retort, and Madame Dorinde, to calm what threatened to be one ebullition with another, called for champagne.

  21. Moreover, three crosses chalked up on the doors of houses and cattle-stalls on Walpurgis Night will effectually prevent any of the infernal crew from entering and doing harm to man or beast.

  22. Next comes the foremast, and between that and the fore hatch the galley and winch; on the port side of the fore hatch are stalls for four ponies--a very stout wooden structure.

  23. I could but sigh again to think of the stalls that must now remain empty, whilst appreciating that there was ample room for the safe harbourage of the ten beasts that remain, be the winter never so cold or the winds so wild.

  24. Neat stalls occupied the whole length of the 'lean to,' the sides so boarded that sprawling legs could not be entangled beneath and the front well covered with tin sheet to defeat the 'cribbers.

  25. Under the forecastle are stalls for fifteen ponies, the maximum the space would hold; the narrow irregular space in front is packed tight with fodder.

  26. There was stained glass in the lancet windows; and the Apostles and Fathers of the Church were carved in oak on the high stalls of the choir.

  27. The last pair of oxen in our stalls had to go!

  28. Every abonne had his own peg for hanging his coat and hat on, and this, and the fact that one's neighbours in the stalls were invariably the same, gave quite a family atmosphere to the Brunswick theatre.

  29. A new screen between the nave and choir was then erected; the choir floor relaid with marble mosaic; the stalls replaced in their old positions, and new portions made to replace those destroyed in 1846.

  30. The carved devices of the miserere seats of these stalls are curious and worthy of attention.

  31. Before leaving the stalls she had tried to locate the box, and thought that she had located it.

  32. She turned her head and saw Mrs. Shiffney and Jonson Ramer sitting in the stalls not far from her.

  33. Even his father, reluctantly sitting in the stalls after a hard day in Wall Street, was obliged to be proud of his boy.

  34. Gillier, who had been with her many times during the night, now slipped into the front row of the stalls to watch his divinity.

  35. Mr. Mulworth, the stage producer, who was the speaker, appeared running sidewise down an uncovered avenue between two rows of stalls close to the stage.

  36. In the stalls she came upon Mrs. Shiffney and Jonson Ramer who were standing up ready to go.

  37. Many people in the stalls were looking at him, were pointing him out.

  38. Without further hesitation Charmian, driven, made her way to the exit from the stalls on her right, went out and found herself in the blackness of the huge corridor running behind the ground tier boxes.

  39. But--" At this moment Charmian saw Claude coming into the stalls by the left entrance near the stage.

  40. But in the stalls the applause seemed to be dying down, and Charmian had a moment of such acute, such exquisite apprehension, that always afterward she felt as if she had known the bitterness of death.

  41. It was dimly lighted, and over the rows of stalls pale coverings were drawn.

  42. It was at this moment that Mrs. Shiffney came into a box at the back of the stalls followed by Jonson Ramer.

  43. Charmian's instinctive love of being "in" everything had caused her to feel acute vexation when her mother had told her that their application for stalls had been refused.

  44. Fish-stalls and fruit-stalls lined the edge of the greasy pavement, sending up odors as foul as the language of the sellers and buyers.

  45. The market was a large covered hall, containing rows of stalls of all kinds.

  46. The large schoolroom was reserved for the sale, and the stalls were put up first thing in the morning.

  47. She suspected that there was an undercurrent of trouble: the smallness of the Silverside Hockey Club, the rival stalls at the bazaar, and the scanty audience at the dramatic performance had shown her clearly which way the wind was blowing.

  48. The booths stood neglected, the stalls unvisited, the little cafés desolate.

  49. He it was who looked to the roofing of the church, the making of new stalls in the choir, and the provision of fair vestments to be worn by priests and servers on festivals.

  50. He is a gentlemanly-looking man, and I fancy that he sat in the stalls near to us one evening this spring.

  51. Mr. Traquair, and Mr. Nicholas Treffry--you used to have six or seven stalls here regular every season.

  52. They dined quietly, in style and taste; left the Club smoking cigars, with just two bottles inside them, and dropped into stalls at the Liberty.

  53. And in the stalls the cows munched contentedly at their cuds and gazed with gentle curiosity at their two fellow-brutes, who stood waiting the signal to fall upon, and kill each other if need be, for the delectation of their brothers.

  54. The barn was a large one, with a row of stalls on either side in which horses and cows were dozing.

  55. The style of the lower stalls of Toledo cathedral is good Plateresque.

  56. The Gothic choir-stalls of the Seo of Zaragoza have lofty backs with arabesque Mudejar ornamentation, small Gothic columns, and medallions containing figures upon the arms of every stall.

  57. No less magnificent than these sets of choir-stalls are the carved retablos or altar-screens,[54] a gradual excrescence from the primitive and unpretentious altar of the early days of Christianity.

  58. Thus, on the stalls of the cathedrals of Zamora, Oviedo, Plasencia, Astorga, and Leon are carved such subjects as the following.

  59. The stalls of the choir are neatly carved, and hung with escutcheons of princes and noblemen, among which I remarked the arms of our Henry the Eighth.

  60. The upper tier of the same stalls belongs to a later period, and will, in consequence, be noticed subsequently.

  61. After this the purer Renaissance gives place to the decadent, as in the stalls of Santiago, Malaga, Cordova, and Salamanca.

  62. The stalls of Malaga number a hundred and one, carved in walnut, larch, cedar, and the heavy Indian wood called granadillo.

  63. The Salle de Spectacle of the Tuileries was, even at this period, the largest auditorium of its kind in Europe, having eight thousand stalls and boxes, which gave a seating capacity of considerably more than that number of persons.

  64. Illuminated arches spanned at regular intervals the broad-walk, lined on either side by stalls and trestle-tables, but the lateral avenues gloomed dark and deserted under the tall black trees.

  65. Every trifle is disconcerting to a troubled spirit, and on his entrance he was surprised and sobered to see how few spectators there were in the stalls and boxes.


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