body of the hall

Boyle swallowed his fear and walked into the body of the hall.

The Society's first production, in the main body of the hall (the stage had not been built yet!)

There was moment's silence, then Egan turned again, looking out over the main body of the hall, raising his arms.

Two or three people rose in the body of the hall as though bent on confirming Nick's assertion.

"Captains and officers to the front, common crew in the body of the Hall!

The monotonous sound of a carefully played piano came from the body of the hall.

The meeting began with the usual heckling from the body of the hall, but it was fly good-natured.

Then, reluctantly, like a prisoner being taken to the place of punishment, he moved on, down, into the body of the hall.

He put the motion and to my astonishment it was seconded by Elliot from the body of the hall.

T'ai Cho stared at him a moment, then shrugged and looked back down into the body of the hall.

This partition creates a narrow corridor within the body of the hall, the so-called screen's passage.

The coroner frowned at the sudden rustle and murmur from the body of the hall.

The body of the hall was filled with a milling, humming swarm of men and women.

He looked at the papers in his hand, smiled at Brady, and turning to face the body of the hall, he began.

Twelve-year-old Ray Gould left the stage to rejoin his parents in the body of the hall.

He leaned towards her again with another amusing remark, made no doubt at the expense of those in the body of the hall.

Han was silent a moment, looking out into the shadowed body of the hall, the torchlight flickering in his dark hair.

Then he rose up again, and turned to the main body of the hall, and spread his arms wide in conscious imitation of the crucifixion.

And below, in the body of the hall, the whole household assembled in its due ranks, under the glow of the torches.

On that occasion Bella's dress and make-up had evoked a chorus of wolf-whistles from the body of the hall when she stood up to speak.

We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried, 'We want Nasser'.

Finally, before he retired as principal, he oversaw the admission of women into the undergraduate body of the Hall, with their first matriculation in 1979.

Jesus!' and 'Aliens are come!'and 'Prithee the snake not be here!'in about equal proportions, they carried me round the body of the hall.

The body of the hall was set with carefully tended trencher-stumps, many more than sufficed for the diners, who were three or at most four score in number.

'God save Africa,' and immediately the band picked up the refrain, while from the body of the hall their magnificent African voices soared in haunting chorus.