A hush of expectation fell on the crowded room as the captain mounted the platform on which stood the head-master's desk.

When they reached the platform the car jolted and Lister sat down, with his back against the door.

You could have heard a pin drop, as the saying goes, so spell-bound was the audience; and at the end there was a warm outburst of applause, and then a gathering about him, as he left the platform, of the various artists, and others who were eager to speak with him.

When you crossed the station platform in front of us he got a jolt.

An old man in a dress of the quaintest simplicity ascended a platform, wiped the dust from his spectacles, and, in a voice of suppressed emotion "lined the hymn," of which that vast multitude could recite the words, to be sung with an air in which every voice could join.

There he laid a platform or landing-place, and paused to consider what to do next.

On the other side of the street is the hardware store, with farm machinery occupying the broad platform before it, and then the Millville House, a two-storied "hotel" with a shed-like wing for the billiard-room and card tables.

When this entertainment was finished, they were conducted to their lodgings, in which the principal chamber was furnished with a large sofa or raised platform, laid with fine silk cushions, a great basin, and a pan for fire.

After adopting a platform the convention adjourns.

In the rear of the Broadway dwelling-houses, are one story tea-rooms, or third parlors, the roofs of which form a continuous platform, upon which you can step from the second story of the houses.

The natives had built a bamboo platform, called machan, in a tree by the kill, and we stationed ourselves on this in the late afternoon.

Baptiste and his boatmen still slept among the boxes; Maso continued to pace his elevated platform above their heads; and the meek-looking stranger, whose entrance into the barge had drawn so many witticisms from Pippo, sate a little apart, silent, furtively observant, and retiring, in the identical spot he had occupied throughout the day.

He seemed to be watching the arrival platform of the Tilbury and Southend trains.

Lengthwise of all the quarters run platforms of beaten earth, 6-1/2 feet wide, and 9 inches above the floor.

The hunter piled the rest of the carcasses in an open place, lightly sprinkled the Grizzly's trail with some very dry brush, then making a platform some fifteen feet from the ground in a tree, he rolled up in his blanket there and slept.

No one is asked to quit our platform.

On the spars is constructed a large platform and on the platform several cabins, containing tables and chairs.

The next instant she saw the platform.

These two congenial spirits have at last met and embraced each other, both looking to the same objectto live upon the unrequited labor of othersand have now erected for themselves a common platform, as was intimated during the last session, on which they can meet, and bid defiance, as they hope, to free principles and free labor.

In each outer curve facing the enemy a firing platform, about waist-high, had been cut in the earth, with similar armored port-holes.

She was glad when she found a little platform under her feet for a moment where she could rest, and also because she had come, not from curiosity to see that gulf, but with the hope and desire to meet some one to whom she could be of a little comfort or help in the terrors of the way.

The two clog-dancers being quite ready to avenge the interruption of their performance, formed themselves into a storming-party, and carried the platform by assault.

Not succeeding, we sat and conversed with each other and the many friends who crowded the platform and anterooms.

Her brother gave her a wooden platform to sit on and plates made out of leaves from which to eat her dinner.

Borrowing the Red Wagon, he created a large platform on which he could build his float.