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  • The judge, a middle-aged, heavyset black woman wearing half-moon glasses, sits opposite, on a dais.   (source)
    dais = raised platform
  • That was the dais where the High Table was, where the King and the great lords sat.   (source)
    dais = raised platform that gives prominence to people on it
  • And the Council of Vocations sat on a high dais, and they had but two words to speak to each of the Students.   (source)
    dais = raised platform
  • Standing at the foot of the dais was my mother, frozen in shimmering golden light, her arms outstretched.†   (source)
  • His father helped her up the steps to the dais and led her to her seat, but the queen never so much as looked at him.†   (source)
  • His lips were neutral, his gaze reserved as he stood on the dais and the applause of the crowd surged around him.†   (source)
  • A man standing on a brightly dressed dais before the building which clearly dominated the square was addressing the crowd over a tannoy "O people who wait in the shadow of Deep Thought!" he cried out.†   (source)
  • So she gathered a few donations from my siblings and came to the dinner, sitting at the end of the dais.†   (source)
  • I parried the blow, and we fought up and down the dais, while the battle raged around us and one by one the members of the Circle fell.†   (source)
  • But this time our faraway vantage was desirable, because we got to take in the full scope of the Event: the impatient crowd, leaning collectively from one foot to another; the mayor atop a red-white-and-blue dais; the booming words—pride, growth, prosperity, success—rolling over us, soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.†   (source)
  • They also built a wooden dais for a woodwind band whose program was limited to contradances and national waltzes, and for a string quartet from the School of Fine Arts, which was Senora de Olivella's surprise for her husband's venerable teacher, who would preside over the luncheon.†   (source)
  • They placed it on the dais and the Emperor mounted, seated himself.†   (source)
  • Only one reserved table is left in front of the dais.†   (source)
  • Sister Monroe, who had been the cause of all the excitement, walked off the dais, cool and spent, and raised her flinty voice in the hymn, "I came to Jesus, as I was, worried, wound, and sad, I found in Him a resting place and He has made me glad."†   (source)
  • At the far end of the room was a stage, surrounded by curtains on three sides; on the right were two long tables on elevated daises, each bearing ten telephones; on the other side stood the podium, no doubt for the auctioneer.†   (source)
  • Rising from his knee, Orik ascended the dais, turned to face the assembly, and then he sank into the hard black throne.†   (source)
  • She delivers a terse speech from a raised dais, and when it comes time to take our oaths to the Empire, I only know to stand because everyone around me does.†   (source)
  • Half-full rows of wooden benches, arranged like pews, faced a raised dais, where the mayor and six council members sat framed by flags.†   (source)
  • They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand…†   (source)
  • Frodo could see him now, sitting with Pippin and Merry at the upper end of one of the side-tables close to the dais.†   (source)
  • In the center of the floor was a raised circular platform, like a dais.†   (source)
  • A wave of startled uneasiness broke over the officers on the dais, and even Major Danby, who had begun synchronizing the watches, was distracted momentarily as he counted out the seconds and almost had to begin again.†   (source)
  • A coffin open on a dais.†   (source)
  • Ghosh sat on a dais in an armchair.†   (source)
  • I could see then what I hadn't noticed when I first came into the room—the gold cross on the long dais in the front of the room, one flag with the star of David, another with a Muslim crescent moon: this was the hospital chapel, a place to ask for what you wanted the most.†   (source)
  • On the dais stood Anaander Mianaai—two of her.†   (source)
  • Some walked quietly to the preacher's side, to kneel before the simple wooden cross on the simple wooden dais.†   (source)
  • It was Adams who formally welcomed the General and escorted him to the dais.†   (source)
  • Her ministers collected around her, following as she led down the three shallow steps through the doorway and across the painted floor to the dais.†   (source)
  • My eyes are immediately drawn to a group sitting in a booth as though it is a king's dais and they are the chosen ones.†   (source)
  • Against the far wall was an alabaster dais and upon its smooth white surface were several objects.†   (source)
  • As they gain the end of the hall where the orchestra dais begins the music comes to an end.†   (source)
  • I imagined Kwang in a dark suit and white gloves, his parcels of tribute politely bundled behind him on the dais.†   (source)
  • He sat on a dais in the middle of the floor.†   (source)
  • IT TOOK AN HOUR FOR Dr. Leila Hadawi to navigate the frozen welcome mat at Dulles Airport's passport control—forty minutes in the long, mazelike line, and another twenty minutes standing before the dais of a Customs and Border Protection officer.†   (source)
  • Alice put the Bible back on its shelf and walked, head down, to her cracked oak desk, like a schoolmarm's desk on a dais, in the main hallway.†   (source)
  • Silence descended on the murmuring crowd as the great doorway split open and Karellen caine forward on to the dais.†   (source)
  • He stood squinting for a long time, rubbing his jaw, and then at last he went up the carpeted steps onto the dais.†   (source)
  • In the intervals between the services she knelt for hours beside the dead woman, her large, fine hands clasping a corner of the coffin standing on its dais, covered with wreaths.†   (source)
  • Flushed and shining with perspiration, standing in the glare of a pink light on the dais between the two fountains, Maria clapped her hands for silence.†   (source)
  • He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.†   (source)
  • The horrible part: On a velvet dais at the back of the room lay a ten-foot-long golden casket.†   (source)
  • She stood on a glittery dais on the opposite side of the room.†   (source)
  • He opened his hand and a flood of glowing hieroglyphs poured out, swarming around the dais.†   (source)
  • Every night he sat on my grandfather's dais with my father and our uncles.†   (source)
  • And on the dais, the golden sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The child sat down on the dais beside the throne, dangled her feet over the edge, kicking them.†   (source)
  • He indicates the head table on the dais where a few dignitaries and their wives nod in my direction.†   (source)
  • On the dais, the ancient tragedy was being replayed.†   (source)
  • King Zhou stood up on the dais and opened his arms, as though he wanted to embrace the whole world.†   (source)
  • There was a blinding flash of light, and when I could see again, the dais was empty.†   (source)
  • After a while the young minister mounts the dais and works the crowd like a warm-up comedian.†   (source)
  • He bounded off the dais and approached the velvet gray box.†   (source)
  • The only exit was a tunnel right behind the dais.†   (source)
  • The Baron bowed low, advanced to the required position ten paces from the dais.†   (source)
  • Our eyes followed him as he strode to the dais at the room's front.†   (source)
  • But the Emperor stood alone now on his dais pointing toward the doors.†   (source)
  • From his dais, my grandfather stared out over all of us, his cup empty in his hand.†   (source)
  • It was too easy, but I approached the dais.†   (source)
  • When the principal came back to the dais, however, his voice had changed.†   (source)
  • She pushed herself off the dais, dropped to the floor of the audience chamber.†   (source)
  • At the end of the room, between two bronze braziers, was a dais.†   (source)
  • The child seated on the dais stopped kicking her feet, said: "Make him afraid some more, Shaddam.†   (source)
  • Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves.†   (source)
  • Richter sat behind a dais that had been placed at the foot of a tree planted by Rowan's first class.†   (source)
  • And on the dais was a chair elaborately carved from white wood.†   (source)
  • When they returned to the bedroom, Eragon unpacked while Saphira coiled upon her dais.†   (source)
  • About a hundred yards away, he spotted a raised dais with two empty oversized praetor chairs.†   (source)
  • I floated to the end of the room, just above the dais with the pharaoh's throne.†   (source)
  • At the far end stood a throne on a raised dais.†   (source)
  • On the dais, Lord Wyman attacked a steaming plate of lampreys as if they were an enemy host.†   (source)
  • Some spoke to the man on the dais and were sent through the door behind him and up a turnpike stair.†   (source)
  • She stepped down from her dais of best sellers and drew a dagger from her belt.†   (source)
  • My Teluman blades are long gone, abandoned on the dais of the amphitheater yesterday.†   (source)
  • In front of the dais, a cozy fire crackled in the hearth.†   (source)
  • Eugenides continued up the steps to the dais and took her hand.†   (source)
  • 'You speak justly, lord,' said the pale man sitting upon the steps of the dais.†   (source)
  • There was a burst of applause when George Washington entered and walked to the dais.†   (source)
  • At least I didn't have to stand before a raised dais.†   (source)
  • At the foot of this sat a dais, wide steps leading down to a floor of gray-and-green stone.†   (source)
  • He thrust Amatis aside, staggering up the steps of the dais to face Valentine.†   (source)
  • On the dais stood a chair of molten gold, a fiery throne carved with glowing white hieroglyphs.†   (source)
  • Old Flint and The Norrey had been given places of high honor just below the dais.†   (source)
  • Following Caillech around the burning brazier, Max and David approached the dais.†   (source)
  • In the center, in front of a raised dais, a fire crackled cheerfully and smokelessly in the hearth.†   (source)
  • If this is Cair Paravel there ought to be a door at this end of the dais.†   (source)
  • Then she sprinted past the dais and ran with Saphira toward Shruikan.†   (source)
  • The guests swarmed the dais, the drunkest in the forefront as ever.†   (source)
  • The mayor's comments seemed to surprise the council members on either side of him at the dais.†   (source)
  • His parents had shared the dais with Robert and his queen, with her brothers beside her.†   (source)
  • Magnus looked toward the dais, where Luke and Jocelyn still knelt, and sighed.†   (source)
  • Otis trudged over to the dais, stopping occasionally to do a plie.†   (source)
  • Leo ran for the metal door next to the dais.†   (source)
  • On the steps of the dais, the two children screamed and covered their ears with their hands.†   (source)
  • He stopped pacing abruptly and turned his back on his queen in order to sit on the dais at her feet.†   (source)
  • He had barely glanced at the dais when he had come into the room.†   (source)
  • At the dais, Piper stood guard over Nico as the leopards advanced.†   (source)
  • Max whirled to gaze at Caillech, who looked old and broken as she leaned against the dais.†   (source)
  • Malachi frowned, then marched down the dais steps and toward the front doors.†   (source)
  • He stepped away from the dais, cradling his new pouch o' power like it was a swaddled baby.†   (source)
  • Hosteen Frey lowered the body to the floor before the dais.†   (source)
  • He hopped down from the dais and grabbed Sansa roughly.†   (source)
  • Both swords were out in a moment and the three others jumped off the dais and stood watching.†   (source)
  • "Be seated," the queen said when she had taken her place on the dais, "and be welcome."†   (source)
  • When Cain mounts the dais, she steps aside as if she expected him.†   (source)
  • The priests stood near the dais, watching us approach.†   (source)
  • As soon as he reached the empty dais, a brilliant light exploded around him, completely blinding me.†   (source)
  • On the dais, Euron pushed aside his slattern and climbed upon the table.†   (source)
  • The alabaster statue stepped off her dais.†   (source)
  • Percy and Reyna occupied matching praetors' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious.†   (source)
  • Up on the dais, Ramsay was arguing with his father.†   (source)
  • Lothor Brune strode to the dais in time to catch the boy as he slipped from his throne.†   (source)
  • My blood falls to the dais in a rapid drip.†   (source)
  • They went to and fro with bundles until they had a good pile on the dais.†   (source)
  • In the middle, a tattered pavilion covered an empty dais where a throne might once have sat.†   (source)
  • Over by the dais, Piper was still on the floor, unable to get up.†   (source)
  • The light outside the windows had dimmed slightly, and she could see the dais more clearly.†   (source)
  • Serving men hurried to lengthen the table on the dais, fetching trestles and chairs.†   (source)
  • Nasuada ascended the dais, then knelt before Eragon and Saphira.†   (source)
  • He sat in a tall leather chair on a dais overlooking the lanes like he was the referee or the MC.†   (source)
  • A semicircle of tiered seats faced a dais with a podium and two chairs.†   (source)
  • The chalice slipped from his hand and dark red wine went running across the dais.†   (source)
  • Clary edged past her mother and Luke toward the dais steps.†   (source)
  • She stepped down from the dais to stand before Eugenides.†   (source)
  • Max looked at the other objects on the dais and came to a sudden, sinking conclusion.†   (source)
  • At the far end a dais, and behind it images of the four Emanations hung in the vines.†   (source)
  • The next he knew, the man behind the dais was calling out a name.†   (source)
  • When they were perhaps thirty feet from the dais, they halted.†   (source)
  • It sat on a stone dais in the middle of a square chamber.†   (source)
  • The Commandant takes her seat while the Augur deposits Laia on the dais beside Cain.†   (source)
  • Her voice rose, and she spun and ran off the dais, practically elbowing her way past Robert.†   (source)
  • David passed behind him, arriving at the last object on the dais.†   (source)
  • Neither the dancers nor the drinkers took much note of Theon Greyjoy as he strode to the dais.†   (source)
  • He saw her there on the dais in the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • When he stood below the dais, she looked him up and down, and sniffed.†   (source)
  • Ser Garlan Tyre11 stood beside the dais.†   (source)
  • Marcus jumps onto the dais, and I know he's coming for me.†   (source)
  • He stood at the edge of the dais, looking down over the room.†   (source)
  • ] On the dais next to Horus, the empty throne of the pharaoh seemed to undulate in the purple light.†   (source)
  • He patted the boy on the head and then pointed toward the steps of the dais.†   (source)
  • He had a high seat on the dais, and men were lifting their goblets and hailing him as hero.†   (source)
  • Lord Ramsay descended from the dais to the dead boy.†   (source)
  • Others entered, spoke to the man on the dais, waited a few moments, and were ushered onward.†   (source)
  • When the dwarfs reined up beneath the dais to salute the king, the wolf knight dropped his shield.†   (source)
  • "Veni," Isabelle whispered, looking at the dais.†   (source)
  • Up near the dais, Abel was plucking at his lute and singing "Fair Maids of Summer."†   (source)
  • Even on the dais they were closer than Catelyn would have liked.†   (source)
  • Lord Hewett himself sat in his accustomed place upon the dais, dressed in all his heraldic finery.†   (source)
  • "Have done with your drink and come to my solar," he commanded his companions on the dais.†   (source)
  • The dais shook under Clary as a weight collapsed onto it.†   (source)
  • Amatis moved to stand at the foot of the dais, looking up at Valentine.†   (source)
  • We're beneath the execution dais; she must have dragged me here.†   (source)
  • Walt shined his light on three mummies lying together on a central dais.†   (source)
  • The dais still stood beneath the empty Iron Throne, though all but one table had been removed.†   (source)
  • Jaime ate even less, and seldom deigned to occupy his seat upon the dais.†   (source)
  • The group at the dais broke apart, and Robert Lightwood stepped forward.†   (source)
  • Birth and blood accorded him a seat upon the dais at the end of the high table, beside a wall.†   (source)
  • Ser Dontos climbed the dais while all eyes were on the other tool.†   (source)
  • "Maybe if … " Then, on the central dais, the mummy family began to stir.†   (source)
  • As her weight crushes me to the dais, the dagger Marcus has flung into her side is jarred loose.†   (source)
  • A moment later Luke had joined them on the dais, Amatis at his side.†   (source)
  • Behind the dais were two massive, separate windows.†   (source)
  • She was climbing the dais when she saw the man standing in the shadows by the back wall.†   (source)
  • Axell Florent was making a toast as Jon took his place upon the dais.†   (source)
  • Before Zia could spill off the dais, I caught her in my arms.†   (source)
  • Malachi stood at the foot of the dais steps.†   (source)
  • Lady Lysa sat on the dais in a high-backed chair of carved weirwood, alone.†   (source)
  • The Augur who restrained Laia lifts the girl's body with difficulty and staggers off the dais.†   (source)
  • No sooner had she taken her leave than Maester Caleotte hurried to the dais.†   (source)
  • Jaime had been seated on the dais, to the right of Lancel's empty chair.†   (source)
  • They carried the corpses in upon their shoulders and laid them beneath the dais.†   (source)
  • I stare at the clock tower through a slim crack in the base of the dais, trying not to blink.†   (source)
  • He stepped forward, his eyes darting around the dais.†   (source)
  • She was sitting in a high seat on the dais in the Accords Hall, Simon by her side.†   (source)
  • And he was, already up on the dais, his expression hard and puzzled and sad.†   (source)
  • Sansa stopped before the dais, and curtsied.†   (source)
  • Her mother stood at the edge of the dais, leaning down to speak to Amatis.†   (source)
  • In the courtyard, my mother climbs to her feet, peering through the dust and smoke at the dais.†   (source)
  • He extended his arm, an elegant gesture, and indicated the two great thrones on the dais.†   (source)
  • The sight of Ser Brynden Tully's craggy face on the dais gave her comfort.†   (source)
  • He climbed the dais steps and turned to gaze down at the crowd.†   (source)
  • Tyrion glanced along the dais at all the laughing faces.†   (source)
  • I've been waiting for you to come down off the dais.†   (source)
  • Jace was staring at the writing on the dais, a sick look on his face.†   (source)
  • He leapt off the dais and pulled Catelyn into his arms.†   (source)
  • "Get out of my way!" he shouted, and began to shoulder his way down the steps, toward the dais.†   (source)
  • And he was, Clary realized, as he neared the dais.†   (source)
  • Clary recognized Brother Zachariah standing with his hands folded near the dais.†   (source)
  • Seat her beside him at the high table, and every other lady on the dais was like to take offense.†   (source)
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  • And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life.   (source)
    dais = alternate spelling of "days"
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