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  • This was a terrific week for me, enough to make up for the dorm-room beds, the heat, and the chaotic dining-halls.

    Having left the Land of Cheese fyddlestyx 2007

  • It is pertinent to mention that the temple complex has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 16 crore, having 64 one-room sets, one prayer hall, 2 langars and 2 dining-halls, besides 64 bathrooms.

    Kashmiri people believe in secular ethos and mutual brotherhood : Sagar 2009

  • At that time his well-known establishment consisted of two dining-halls, at right angles to each other; long, narrow, low-ceiled rooms, looking respectively on the Rue Neuve-deRichelieu and the Place de la Sorbonne.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments.

    The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • In summer time the south side was inhabited by them, and then they left their gardens and dining-halls.

    Critias 2006

  • Every fine lady must be in the crowd on Broadway in the afternoon, in the theatre at the matinee, in the coaches and dining-halls at night.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • They were to eat in a room, as the outer dining-halls were all full.

    Pierre And Jean 2003

  • The law-courts and the porticoes will be turned into dining-halls.

    The Ecclesiazusae 2000

  • The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • All the peasants eat together unbelievably modest rations of ground corn or rice, with an occasional sprinkling of bits of dried fish, in unbelievably drab communal dining-halls.

    Communist China—Time for Reappraisal 1959

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