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"Great hall" Quotes from Famous Books

... husband mentioned Florence, and the resemblance of my voice to that of some Italian charmer. The next day I happened to play some of my sweetest Italian airs, and to accompany them with my voice. The music-room opens into the great hall: Leonora and her husband were in the hall, talking to some visitors. The voices were soon hushed, as I expected, by the magic sounds, but, what I did not expect, Leonora was the first who led the way into the music-room. Was this affectation? These simple ...

— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth

... day Thor and Loki came into the great hall of Utgard. The Giant King was there with a throng of his friends. Thor marched into the hall with Mioelnir, his great hammer, in his hands. "Our young men have been drinking out of this horn," said the King, "and ...

— The Children of Odin - The Book of Northern Myths • Padraic Colum

... on the big table, and began to rattle it away to its place outside the buttery door. The lower-passage boys carried off their small tables, aided by their friends; while above all, standing on the great hall-table, a knot of untiring sons of harmony made night doleful by a prolonged performance of "God Save the King." His Majesty King William the Fourth then reigned over us, a monarch deservedly popular amongst ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

... hundred prisoners were drawn up in the great hall of the Seminary, and from the doorway John spied the Governor at ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... looked down the room. He saw the great hall just as he had seen it before. He recognized the high brick stove and the woven tapestries that hung upon the walls. But he glanced many times from wall to wall before daring to raise his eyes to the table and the bench where Herr Arne ...

— The Treasure • Selma Lagerlof

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