banquet-hall

• “Mr. Romney flew to Columbia the day after winning big in New Hampshire and spoke to 500 people at a banquet-hall rally.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Playing the Many South Carolinas

• “Here in Springfield, the day's students sipped coffee and chewed on peppermints while seated at folding banquet-hall tables.”

  The Washington Post: Conservative class on Founding Fathers' answers to current woes gains popularity

• “I have finally purchased an infrared heat lamp—like the ones you see at a banquet-hall carving station hanging over the prime rib.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

• “The president is joking, my fellow journalists are laughing, and I'm sitting here swilling cheap banquet-hall chardonnay!”

  Barrett Brown: National Review Changes Stance on Death Jokes

• “The confused and melodramatic scene in the banquet-hall between Nils Lykke and Skaktavl is of central importance, but what is it about?”

  Henrik Ibsen

• “Jokes rooted in pain are nothing new, but it was extraordinary to have a banquet-hall of glamorous black-tied Africans laughing at the notion that South Africa is now in such a pitiful state that even they might want to flee.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Did You Hear the One About Apartheid?

• “[10] It was always forbidden to bring chamber-pots into the banquet-hall, but the reason lay in their belief that the right way to keep body and brain from weakness was to avoid drinking in excess.”

  Cyropaedia

• “Often and often, then, God willing, my memory will recall this brilliant scene, and will re-illuminate this banquet-hall.”

  Speeches: Literary and Social

• “Show a banquet-hall, too, if you can, and the people in it having a good time.”

  Satyricon

• “Fancy, for a banquet-hall, a royal orangery hung with white damask; the boxes of the shrubs transformed into so many sideboards; lights gleaming through the foliage; and, for guests, the loveliest women and most brilliant cavaliers of Paris.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

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