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Definition
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it
- 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.Chapter 4 (68% in)
- The dais still blazed, and in the light, Maria produced a tattered volume.Chapter 4 (72% in)
- As the last light on the dais melted away, Maria stripped off her gown and displayed the astonishing nude body that was a miracle of pneumatic surgery.Chapter 4 (79% in)
- Mary brought the girl downstairs and seated her on the low dais.Chapter 10 (15% in)
- Instantly she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude, and he probed delicately... Sensation of bedclothes... Voice calling dimly... Whose voice, Barbara?Chapter 10 (24% in)
- Powell wiped perspiration from his face and took the girl back to the dais.Chapter 10 (28% in)
- Again she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude.Chapter 10 (30% in)
- Mary raised the girl and led her to the dais.Chapter 10 (33% in)
- In the main hall of Beaumont House, a pneumatic model of Maria Beaumont slowly climbed to a dais with a tiny book in her hands.Chapter 13 (15% in)
- Once again Maria Beaumont read the rules of the Sardine game from the dais in the main hall of Beaumont House.Chapter 13 (18% in)
There are no more uses of "dais" in The Demolished Man.
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