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Usage examples of intermission.

As SOON As THE houselights were up full for intermission, Jan dashed to the costume room under the stage and rummaged along the racks till she found a simple long gray dress.

Pendergast said nothing, merely inclining his head slightly as the houselights came up and the intermission began.

The air was so heavy and thick with powder that the torches gave but a feeble light, and the combatants were well nigh stifled by the fumes of sulphur, yet in the galleries which met men fought night and day without intermission.

Out of sight they remained, it was intermission, they were changing their costumes, or making bricks and getting paid for it.

Vlad grinned at his audience and shrugged—in his manner, he reminded Beheim of the buffoonish, third-rate illusionists who had sometimes appeared during intermissions at the Opéra Comique.

He hadn't thought about it before because no one took a jacket to the dance, and during intermissions when people went on deck they could stand a few minutes of sub-Arctic air.

The format for this evening is we're going to have about a 20 minute intermission so you can stretch your legs and exercise your consumer rights over at the book table, and we'll be hearing a couple of rave cuts that my voice has been slyly integrated into.

The performance was running long, and Montedoro and Falcone decided to spend this final intermission relaxing in their box, rather than attempt another sortie into the high-society crush out on the Grand Tier lobby.

I have labored without intermission since I attained the age of sixteen: the pupil of Jean Jacques, the companion of Balsamo, the friend of Lafayette and of Washington, I have never had cause to reproach myself, since the day that I left France, for a single fault, nor even an error.

Edge said diffidently, imbecilically, but unable to do otherwise, when he walked over to them at intermission.

The troupers noticed one interesting thing about these audiences: there seemed to be a tradition in Hungary that pretzels were the only approved, accepted and fashionable snack to eat at intermissions of an entertainment.

The form it took was a series of savage blizzards which blew with all-too-brief intermissions from the third week in December until the middle of March.

The snow started to fall towards the end of November and kept on with only brief intermissions right through to the following April.

When the public came pouring out during intermissions to see the animals, they almost inevitably passed the hunger artist's cage and stopped there for a moment.

All the rest of that day and evening, up till bedtime, except for intermissions for meals and the afternoon conclave in the plant rooms, he kept at it, with no word or sign to give me a hint of what kind of trail he had found, if any.