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 ''.

The church was enlarged in 1346, along with a small hall known as the Manor Hall.

The city hall ( hôtel de ville ), erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII ( reigned 1610 to 1643 ).

The old Village Hall, built in 1873 and enlarged in 1885, is a two-story brick Victorian / Italianate town hall.

The hall was enlarged between 1811 and 1814 and the stables built from 1842 to 1852.

) In 1986 the enlarged arrivals hall was opened, and in 1988 Pier East with 8 jetbridges.

The ticket hall would be enlarged and the open air platforms would be retained.

On the abolition of the London Vestries it became the town hall and was extended and enlarged in 1902 and 1938.

Richard Shireburn began building the hall, which was enlarged by his grandson Nicholas who also constructed the ponds, avenue and gardens.

“ An enlarged 600sq m immigration hall with 10 counters and three e-gates will prevent long queues and ensure seamless and hassle-free passport clearance formalities ,” an official said.

In 1938 the back of the building was enlarged ; however this meant that the last gallery in the spacious hall had to be sacrificed in order to permit the building of an extension.

Since 2007, a completely renovated and enlarged dinosaur hall ( the Janlet wing ) of 4580 m² is the largest dinosaur hall in the world.

Later the hall was enlarged by Giorgio Vasari so that Grand Duke Cosimo I could hold his court in this chamber.

Around the tree were built several houses, which were gradually enlarged, until finally a village hall was built.

Brown had been designing the landscape of Trentham hall since 1768, for the owner Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford ( he was an Earl at the time ), when it was decided to remodel the house, this took from 1775 – 78, it was enlarged from nine to fifteen bays, the pilasters and other features were in stone, but the walls were of brick covered in stucco to imitate stonework.

The one-room schoolhouse was enlarged in 1915 with another room and a hall.

The town hall opened on 17 September 1938 and since 1 April 1974 has been the administrative headquarters of the enlarged Salford City Council.

The front hall was also enlarged and a new central staircase installed.

This phase of £ 1. 4 million improvements set out to provide the station with a brighter enlarged booking hall, new toilets and changing facilities ; and also a retail unit.

Therefore, in 1920 the Glover Lodge completely renovated and enlarged their hall.

The family built Rufford New Hall in 1760 and enlarged it around 1798-99 when the family left the old hall for the new.