All 30 Uses
dais
in
City of Heavenly Fire
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- It was built like an amphitheater: a half circle of tiered benches facing a rectangular raised dais in the front of the room.†
p. 81.3 *dais = raised platform
- There were two lecterns on the dais, one for the Consul and one for the Inquisitor, and behind the lecterns two windows, massive rectangles, looked out over Alicante.†
p. 81.3
- On the dais, behind the lecterns, were four tall chairs, the back of each inscribed with a symbol: spell book, moon, arrow, star.†
p. 81.5
- Clary recognized Brother Zachariah standing with his hands folded near the dais.†
p. 83.9
- He stepped forward, his eyes darting around the dais.†
p. 85.9
- Her voice rose, and she spun and ran off the dais, practically elbowing her way past Robert.†
p. 90.4
- Near the dais was a group of Silent Brothers in their bone-colored robes, faces hidden by hoods.†
p. 287.4
- Jace was staring at the writing on the dais, a sick look on his face.†
p. 287.6
- "Veni," Isabelle whispered, looking at the dais.†
p. 289.4
- "Get out of my way!" he shouted, and began to shoulder his way down the steps, toward the dais.†
p. 299.4
- Alec, dropping his bow, flung himself over the back of the row of benches, and dived on top of Jace, knocking him to the ground just as the dais went up in flames like a bonfire doused with gasoline.†
p. 299.5
- The last of the embers licked across the floor, their glowing tips barely touching the message still scrawled in ichor across the dais.†
p. 300.4
- The ceiling rose high above them, though instead of rows of seats a wide bare marble floor stretched toward a dais at the end of the room.†
p. 565.1
- Behind the dais were two massive, separate windows.†
p. 565.1
- The light outside the windows had dimmed slightly, and she could see the dais more clearly.†
p. 566.3
- He extended his arm, an elegant gesture, and indicated the two great thrones on the dais.†
p. 569.8
- He had barely glanced at the dais when he had come into the room.†
p. 599.4
- The dais shook under Clary as a weight collapsed onto it.†
p. 609.2
- She collapsed to the dais on her knees.†
p. 609.5
- Then, pushing between them, came Jocelyn; she shoved by Amatis without a look and dashed up the steps to the dais.†
p. 610.2
- And he was, already up on the dais, his expression hard and puzzled and sad.†
p. 611.9
- Jocelyn said in puzzlement, but Jace was already moving, bending to seize Phaesphoros, flipping himself down from the dais.†
p. 612.5
- She spun toward the dais.†
p. 613.1
- She was aware of Luke standing by the dais, watching them; aware that there were tears on Luke's face.†
p. 616.7
- Magnus looked toward the dais, where Luke and Jocelyn still knelt, and sighed.†
p. 620.2
- Asmodeus asked, flicking his fingers toward the dais, where Luke was on his feet, looking toward them.†
p. 623.3
- They were still in the same position they had been in on the dais: Luke standing, Jocelyn kneeling with her son's body in her arms.†
p. 631.2
- It was a clear winter day outside, and the light that poured through the windows shimmered across the long lines of chairs that had been set up facing the raised dais at the center of the room, where the Consul and the Inquisitor sat at a long table.†
p. 638.6
- Kaelie moved to the aisle between the rows of seats and began to walk toward the dais; Robert Lightwood rose to his feet.†
p. 639.9
- The group at the dais broke apart, and Robert Lightwood stepped forward.†
p. 646.5
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)