assembly-room

The soldier who enters the field of battle requires not more courage, though of a different nature, than the faded beauty who enters an assembly-room.

Camilla 2008

“In private? and in an assembly-room? — he must be mad — Tell him to call upon me tomorrow morning.”

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

“In private? and in an assembly-room? — he must be mad — Tell him to call upon me tomorrow morning.”

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

From the time of his first boyish gallantry, on the ill-fated birth-day of Camilla, Indiana had never so much struck young Mandlebert, as while he attended her up the assembly-room.

Camilla 2008

In each school there is one large assembly-room, capable of accommodating from 500 to 1000 children, and ten or twelve capacious class-rooms.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The large assembly-room set apart for the concert was upstairs, and it was possible to enter it in two ways: by the large doorway in front of the landing, or by turning down a side passage leading to council-rooms and subsidiary apartments of small size, which were allotted to performers in any exhibition; thus they could enter from one of these directly upon the platform, without passing through the audience.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

European society: a supper with champagne in some profusion and bowls of negus was prepared in another chamber: the large assembly-room was set apart for the dance, of which enjoyment Harry

The Virginians 2006

And as we know very well that a lady who is skilled in dancing or singing never can perfect herself without a deal of study in private, and that the song or the minuet which is performed with so much graceful ease in the assembly-room has not been acquired without vast labour and perseverance in private; so it is with the dear creatures who are skilled in coquetting.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The Tower is the sort of thing school superintendents see and then go back and lecture on in school assembly-room and the G.A. R. hall.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

He walked up and down some Town Hall assembly-room or some court-room with Parnell, but would tell me nothing of that conversation, except that Parnell spoke of Gladstone with extravagant hatred.10 He would not repeat words spoken by a great man in his bitterness, yet Parnell at the moment was too angry to care who listened.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965