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  • With his black violin-case he hurried down the street, then halted to pity the flowers massed pallid under the gaslight of the market-hall.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • The five hundred children were heralded and marched off to the tune of one of their own pretty hymns to where unlimited buns and tea awaited them, and we elders betook ourselves to the grateful shade and coolness of the flower-decked new market-hall, open to-day for the first time, and turned by flags and ferns and lavish wealth of what in England are costliest hot-house flowers into

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

  • The ancient whipping-post, along with the stocks, which had accommodation for three persons, had found their last resting-place inside the old market-hall.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Externally the body, like the market-hall at Bruges, is almost entirely crushed into insignificance by the utterly disproportionate height and bulk of the huge west tower, the top of which, even in its present unfinished state (one almost hopes that it may never be finished), is actually three hundred and twenty-four feet high.

    Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

  • "Figaro-Scaramouche" to an audience that filled three quarters of the market-hall.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • It was spent in erecting and preparing the stage at one end of the market-hall; and he began to realize how hard-earned were to be his monthly fifteen livres.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Then in a voice that for the moment he appeared to have borrowed from the roaring captain, M. Binet marshalled them for the short parade across to the market-hall.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Nevertheless, since clearly he was not anywhere about the market-hall, to the inn they all trooped, and deafened the landlady with their inquiries.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • With his black violin-case he hurried down the street, then halted to pity the flowers massed pallid under the gaslight of the market-hall.

    The Trespasser 1907

  • As I looked round at the top of the street I saw her still standing there in the little flood of yellow light, gazing across towards the old market-hall.

    The Betrayal 1906

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