Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

While she was settling the teacart, he went back across the hall to their bedroom, opened one of the suitcases, and took out powdered coffee and sugar.

He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.

The telephone was in the study but the ringing came from the hall.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall, Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him.

Rector was warming to his over-all strategy by the time he got back to the residential hall.

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

The hall was empty and Alex beckoned ; ;

It was Mr. Jack, bellowing out in the hall.

Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.

Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.

He was prancing along the hall, heading for the next flight of stairs.

Hub was sitting in a chair that blocked the hall door.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

There were three -- one leading to a bathroom, one to the hall, and one to the room next door which was immovable -- locked or bolted on the other side.

The large municipal hall was ablaze with color, which shown out from the bright array of chic ballgowns worn by those participating in the `` maskers' dances ''.

City hall was built around Rore Tower in 1515.

In Denmark, recent archaeological excavations at Lejre, where Scandinavian tradition located the seat of the Scyldings, i. e., Heorot, have revealed that a hall was built in the mid-6th century, exactly the time period of Beowulf.

In Gylfaginning, Snorri relates that Baldr had the greatest ship ever built, named Hringhorni, and that there is no place more beautiful than his hall, Breidablik.

The Roman empire | Roman Basilica Aula Palatina in Trier, Germany, built in the 4th century with fired bricks as audience hall for Constantine I

A portion of the office annex was built along with the banking hall in 1954.

At the time, there was little regard for historical heritage ; in the 1960s, a new city hall was built and its neo-gothic predecessor ( 1867 ) demolished to make way for a planned arterial road that never materialised.

In the nineteenth century Ghent's most famous architect, Louis Roelandt, built the university hall Aula, the opera house and the main courthouse.

The roof was built in 1376 by William Wintringham, producing the widest hall, unsupported by pillars, existing in England at the time.

Thomas built the first great hall at the castle from 1314 to 1317 and constructed the Water Tower along the outer bailey, as well as increasing the size of the chase.

A convention hall, the Festhalle, was built in Art Nouveau style, 1905 – 07 on a rise overlooking the city park and facing the modernist Bundesamt, the regional government building.

A major 19th-century engineering achievement was The Crystal Palace, the huge cast-iron and plate glass exhibition hall built for The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

This building had stood on the market place since the 13th century, but it was destroyed in the Thirty Years ' War ; the new town hall was built in a Renaissance style influenced by Dutch architecture.

The great hall at Penshurst Place, Kent, built in the mid 14th century.

The principal building on the piazza is the town hall, once the Palazzo dei Priori ( built late 13th, early 14th century ) which was for many years the Palazzo Comunale.

Occidental's newest building, the 278 bed Rangeview Residence Hall, opened in January 2008 at a cost of a reported 38. 8 million dollars and is the first residence hall built in 25 years.

Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include the New York City Center, now used as a concert hall, Newark Symphony Hall, The Landmark Theater ( formerly The Mosque ) in Richmond, Virginia, the Tripoli Shrine Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Helena Civic Center ( Montana ) ( formerly the Algeria Shrine Temple ), and the Fox Theatre ( Atlanta, Georgia ) which was jointly built between the Atlanta Shriners and William Fox.

John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, an aisled hall church built in the 14th century and extended in the 15th century ; outstanding Gothic sculptures and paintings inside ( Moses, St. Mary Magdalene, gravestone of Johann von Soest ), Renaissance and Baroque epitaphs and altars ( amongst them the epitaph of Copernicus from 1580 )

** St. Mary's church, a formerly Franciscan aisled hall built in the 14th century

The college hall, originally built at the very start of the 16th century was restored in 1875-1879 by George Gilbert Scott, the younger.

After that, Versailles was never again the seat of the capital of France, but the presence of the French Parliament there in the 1870s left a vast hall built in one aisle of the palace which is still used by the French Parliament when it meets in Congress to amend the French Constitution, as well as when the French president addresses the two chambers of the French Parliament.

The first church in Yerevan ; the church of St. Peter and Paul, was built in the fifth century, and was demolished in 1931 to build a cinema hall.

* Early 4th century – Former audience hall now known as the Basilica, Trier, Germany, is built.

The oldest remaining building of Wiesbaden, the old city hall, was built in 1609 and 1610.

The new town hall was built in 1887.

The old town hall, built in 1610, is the oldest preserved building in the city center and now is used as a civil registry office.