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 ''.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

They are in the hall, on the gallery, and crowded into very small rooms.

From 1913 onwards parts of her collection were open to the public ; until the mid 1930s her exhibition hall in The Hague was one of the very rare places where one could see more than a few works of modern art.

One of Pei's associates told him during a party before the opening that the symphony hall was " a very mature building "; he smiled and replied: " Ah, but did I have to wait this long?

Its place in small rural communities, for example, when it establishes itself in a local church hall, and absorbs substantial numbers of the population, is very different from its situation in large urban centres, where its presence is marginalised by other social and economic activities.

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

I felt that it was a beautiful concert hall and I was very happy to sing there.

In music hall songs, on the other hand, innuendo remained very popular.

The competition sites, designed by architect Günther Behnisch, included the Olympic swimming hall, the Olympics Hall ( Olympiahalle, a multipurpose facility ) and the Olympic Stadium ( Olympiastadion ), and an Olympic village very close to the park.

After escaping, he finds the hall of records, a very long scrolling screen.

The interior makes much use of marble in the entrance hall and flanking staircases, although the galleries as originally designed were white with restrained classical detail and mouldings, very much in contrast to the elaborate decoration of the Victorian galleries, although much of this decoration was removed in the early 20th century.

Music hall was very popular and widespread ; influential performers included male impersonator Vesta Tilley and comic Little Tich.

The hall was used as a reception chamber and its decoration with large geographical maps was designed to underline the glorious tradition that was at the very basis of Venetian power.

There are very few physical remainders of Frederick in Hesse today ; one of them is his large Royal Swedish paraph ( FR ) over the old door of the University of Marburg's former riding hall, now the Institute of Physical Education.

The oral history of the area places the first residents of Snoqualmie as Edmund and Louisa Kinsey, who established the first hotel, livery, general store, dance hall, post office, and meat market – in addition to helping build the very first church in the town.

A very large brick church was built in 1524, and a matching town hall next door was built in 1530 before the church was completed in 1546.

The great slate-roofed hall, thirty-four feet high, with four cross-gables, was added in the 1280s and is a very rare survival, having been virtually untouched since ; there is no fireplace, just the central open octagonal hearth.

It is very widely performed in the concert hall and is frequently revived on the stage.

The program was very long and individual acts were lost in the cavernous hall.

The arms are based on a very large antler, with a rare golden color, which hangs on the community hall.

In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( the Queen Mother ) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth.

Music performance ( a concert or a recital ) may take place indoors in a concert hall or outdoors in a field, and may require the audience to remain very quiet, or encourage them to sing and dance along with the music.

Architecturally speaking, it is very similar to the adjacent building of the current town hall.

Visconti placed three microphones at intervals along the length of the hall, one very close to Bowie, one halfway down the hall and the third at the far end of the hall.