dancing-hall

It has been in its time a dancing-hall and a gambling hell and God knows what else.

Greenmantle 2005

When a stranger enters the dancing-hall, he sees one end of the room taken up by the ladies, who sit dismally in a group by themselves; in the other end stand their pensive partners that are to be; but no more intercourse between the sexes than there is between two countries at war.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

After the banquet the court repaired to the dancing-hall, where already the musicians were strumming upon their instruments, so that everyone's feet began to move rhythmically.

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl

It had a large dancing-hall, and was a favorite resort for gay parties from Boston and vicinity.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 Various

After the banquet all proceeded to the dancing-hall, and King Cuthbert gave his arm to her.

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl

At this moment (a tuning of instruments is heard in the dancing-hall) the tall figure of the accommodation man is seen, in company of the venerable Judge, passing hurriedly into a room on the right of the winding stairs before described.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

It was long and low -- in reality, the old dancing-hall, for the manor had been built after the pattern of its first owner's English home; and in the deep, recessed windows, facing the lake, many a bepatched and powdered little belle of Colonial days had coquetted across her fan with her bravely-clad partner.

The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

That was at Las Palmas, in a dancing-hall, when a Portuguese girl had knifed a fickle lover with a dagger drawn from her stocking.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

They spoke affectedly of the ball given by the Prince of Schwartzenberg on the occasion of the espousals, and of the fire which consumed the dancing-hall, and the tragic death of several persons, notably of the sister of the prince.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

And for Minos he made statues which spoke and moved, and the temple of Britomartis, and the dancing-hall of Ariadne, which he carved of fair white stone.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes