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 ''.

It was originally in the street in front of city hall, but was moved to its present location in front of the town church in 1905 due to increased traffic.

One of the legacies of the guilds, the elevated Windsor Guildhall was originally a meeting place for guilds, as well as magistrates ' seat and town hall.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

The prizes are presented by genuine Nobel laureates, originally at a ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT but now in Sanders Theater at Harvard University.

The House of Lords originally met in the Queen's Chamber, a modest Medieval hall at the south end of the complex.

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

It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto ’ s City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth city hall ( adjacent to the third, on Queen Street ) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the Ontario Court of Justice.

The ball, marked with a die-cut asterisk, was finally delivered to the hall on July 2, 2008 after Marc Ecko unconditionally donated the artifact rather than loaning it to the hall as originally intended.

Described in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia papers of 1796 as a “ two-story wooden structure w / addition & a cellar floored in stone w / kitchen ”, Violet Bank originally fit an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of the late colonial Tidewater Virginia.

Violet Bank originally bore a strong resemblance to the still extant Weston Manor in Hopewell, Virginia, utilizing an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of late colonial Tidewater Virginia.

The Blacksmith's Arms, originally a 17th century farmhouse, has memorabilia of the music hall artiste known as " Little Tich ".

The large complex originally had separate first and second class men's baths and a women's baths, along with a public hall.

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.

Though the building was originally constructed to serve as the meeting hall for the local AF and AM Lodge, from its opening it has always been used by all of Orangeville's fraternal organizations.

The Palmer House, originally an Independent Order of Odd Fellows | Odd Fellows hall.

The town hall, built in 1813-1814 near the rail-fenced common, was originally the village meetinghouse.

* Magdalen Hall, Oxford — a former hall of the University of Oxford, originally sited next to the college of the same name, was refounded as Hertford College on the mediaeval site of Hart Hall.

The hall has a hammerbeam roof ; the louvre in the centre is now glazed, but was originally the only means of escape for smoke rising from a fireplace in the centre of the floor.

Nonetheless, the social role of a college was re-established by the Delegacy's students, meeting as St Catherine's Club ( originally St Catharine's Club ), which was named after its meeting place in a hall on Catte Street.

The museum was originally intended for use as a town hall but quickly developed into an underground meeting place ( for unknown activity ) which led to strict media scrutiny.

East Bank's town hall now occupies a separate building, which originally housed the high school & junior high's music and art classrooms.

The village hall, originally located at 600 Main Avenue, was later relocated at 800 Main Avenue.

James Paine's Shrubland Park was remodeled in ( 1849 – 54 ) with its Italianate tower, entrance porch, the lower hall with Corinthian columns and glass domes and the impressive formal gardens based on Italian Renaissance gardens, including a 70 foot high series of terraces linked by a grand flight of steps linking terraces, with an open temple structure at the top, originally there were cascades of water either side of the staircase, the main terrace is at the center of a string of gardens nearly a mile in length.

The hall was originally hung with 28 portraits of Kings, Queens, and Emperors, from William the Conqueror to William III, intended to give the house an air of dynastic importance.