All 10 Uses of
dais
in
The Demolished Man
- 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.†
Chpt 4 *dais = raised platform
- The dais still blazed, and in the light, Maria produced a tattered volume.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- Mary brought the girl downstairs and seated her on the low dais.†
Chpt 10
- Instantly she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude, and he probed delicately...Sensation of bedclothes...Voice calling dimly...Whose voice, Barbara?†
Chpt 10
- Powell wiped perspiration from his face and took the girl back to the dais.†
Chpt 10
- Again she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude.†
Chpt 10
- Mary raised the girl and led her to the dais.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- Once again Maria Beaumont read the rules of the Sardine game from the dais in the main hall of Beaumont House.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(dais) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)