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 ''.

Rather, it was a banquet hall for the Russian nobility which frequented this spa resort in the late 19th century, and is presently used as a restaurant.

A close-up shot can also be used at the beginning of a scene to establish the setting ( such as, for the lecture hall scene, a shot of a pencil writing notes ).

Built in 1826-33 by Antonio de Echevarría in the purest Neo-classical style, this building contains within it the Church of Santa María la Antigua, which is presently used as the plenary meeting hall of the General Assemblies of Biscay.

It is now used as a function hall.

Sources also identify Ictinus as architect of the Telesterion at Eleusis, a gigantic hall used in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

" Knock knock " was the catchphrase of music hall performer Wee Georgie Wood, who was recorded in 1936 saying it in a radio play, but he simply used the words as a reference to his surname and did not use it as part of the well-known joke formula.

The undercroft to the hall, used by the service staff, was lit with slits, similar to design at the contemporary Wingfield Manor.

Often, a limited part of the prayer hall is sanctified formally as a masjid in the sharia sense ( although the term masjid is also used for the larger mosque complex as well ).

* The hall of mirrors, commonly found in amusement parks, is an attraction in which a number of distorting mirrors are used to produce unusual reflections of the visitor.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

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.

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.

Over the past few years the theatre has been used as a lecture hall for University of Toronto students, an active learning space for Victoria University students groups, numerous concerts, theatrical productions, film screenings, and conferences.

Directly below this is a large hall in the basement, used regularly to feed the poor and homeless, and for meetings, and multiple crypts.

* Patton Hall, military hangar at the Saumur Armour Museum on loan from the French Armoured Corps and Cavalry School, Saumur, France, formerly used as a tank-restoration hall.

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.

Meanwhile, in the convention hall, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff used his nominating speech for George McGovern to tell of the violence going on outside the convention hall, saying that “ with George McGovern we wouldn ’ t have Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago .” Mayor Daley responded to his remark with something that the T. V.

Built as a synagogue in 1847-48 by architect Hezekiah Marshall, the " Old Synagogue " is used as a recital hall by the music department.

* Deriving from the above, a hall is often the term used to designate a British or Irish country house.

It may be privately or government-owned, such as a function hall owned by one company used for weddings and cotillions ( organized and run by the same company on a contractual basis ) or a community hall available for rent to anyone.

The atrium, a name sometimes used in public buildings for the entrance hall, was the central courtyard of a Roman house.

In wealthy homes, the ground floor was often used as a stable while the kitchen was located on the floor above, like the bedroom and the hall.

The National Assembly, which used to meet in the Tashechhoe Dzong until 1993, is now held in this building in an elaborately decorated assembly hall at the end of two long decorated corridors.