hall

• On one side of this hall is the door into the sole living apartment, which possesses a window at one end, and against one of the side walls a couple of bunks, wherein three or four dairymaids sleep Sometimes there is a separate room, or even a detached hut, for the dairy work; but there is generally only the one room, the milk being set in large, shallow wooden vessels on a number of shelves fixed against one of the walls. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
• The familiar scent of the hall was a chiding in itself and she went nervously to the schoolroom, where a line of light marked its meeting with the floor Helen sat by the table, mending linen in the lamplight. —  Moor Fires
• At the end of the hall is a gigantic wooden horse, built in sections, supposed to have been the model of Donatello for his bronze statue of Gattamelata, or one of the horses of St Mark's at Venice. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
• Across the hall was the loud, incessant uproar of feminine conversation released from the imprisonment of an hour's silence. —  The Squirrel-Cage
• At the far end of the hall was a great friendly grandfather's clock with a broad round face Tick-tock, tick-tock," said the clock in a deep mellow voice. —  The Cat in Grandfather's House

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