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  • Whether it is placed in the living-room and used as a bookcase, or in the hall-way in order to store clothes and hide the footwear, the Denizen System will prove its utility time and time again.

    Giralot Storage System: Swivel Around for Space 2010

  • I summoned her dresser from the hall-way outside, and asked the woman to accompany Miss Birdsong home.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • The light from the hall-way showed me a slice of the room: floorboards, carpet, bed, lamp-shade, wall.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He felt the other man come to attention in the dim corner, and smiled to himself as he heard the soft clink of coins being laid on the damp table: The man was preparing to follow if Holmes did not return in a reasonable time, but not immediately — he wouldn't want to risk a face-to-face meeting in the hall-way.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • I turned away sharply out of the room; as Holmes followed me, he gently shut the door, cutting off the watery sunlight and plunging the hall-way back into gloom.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He held the door for her until, reluctantly, she pulled herself away from her father's laden desk and joined him in the hall-way.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Aram's feet were clad in soft slippers and the hall-way was carpeted with thick Turanian rugs; but there was an unpleasant suggestion of innate stealthiness about the Zamboulan.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • At four-thirty in the afternoon, they heard the front door come open and Holmes stepped into the hall-way, and in an instant, into the library swept Russell, looking magnificent and furious as she pulled a gun on the greying ex-Pinkerton, shouting at Holmes to stand away from the man who worked for those who had murdered her family.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Aram's feet were clad in soft slippers and the hall-way was carpeted with thick Turanian rugs; but there was an unpleasant suggestion of innate stealthiness about the Zamboulan.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • By the judicious rearrangement of dust-bins and the hook of his walking-stick, he scrambled onto the metal escape and moments later was looking straight down the hall-way at Hammett's door.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

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