1 Everything about it was sacred, the graves of the men who had died for it, the battle fields, the torn flags, the crossed sabres in their halls, the fading letters from the front, the veterans.
2 It was a humble wife who followed the busy doctor out to the carriage, and her ambition was not to play Rachmaninoff better, nor to build town halls, but to chuckle at babies.
3 But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 4 For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 5 The two rival sets of grafters hired halls and set off fireworks and made speeches, to try to get the people interested in the matter.
6 Sometimes he would ride down-town with a party of friends to the cheap theaters and the music halls and other haunts with which they were familiar.
7 While this scene was passing in the cabin of the man, one quite otherwise passed in the halls of the master.
8 Thou hast earned one in the halls of Rotherwood, noble knight.
9 To Rotherwood will I come, brave Saxon, and that speedily; but, as now, pressing matters of moment detain me from your halls.
10 The handsome old halls are there, from the days of Good Queen Anne and Tom Jones.
11 Now they are pulling down the stately homes, the Georgian halls are going.
12 The mines had made the halls wealthy.
13 The sleeping halls there were white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
14 There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of the streets.
15 When they were past, I came by chance once more to the walls of Fisk University, to the halls of the chapel of melody.