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Usage examples of dais.

In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.

Councillor Albedo stepped to the edge of the low dais and began to speak.

Dom Paulo arose and moved to the front of the dais to stare at the faintly defined shape in the shadows.

He advanced between the ranks of assembled Lords and made his bow before the railing that fronted the pyramidal dais.

He bowed before the low dais upon which the boy Light of Heaven reclined on cushions, then glanced with interest at the other assembled personages.

Candles had been brought to light the long desk or dais where sat the Bailly in his great chair, and the twelve scarlet-robed jurats.

His Majesty sat on a low dais, in a gilded and padded chair beneath a baldachin hung behind and on either side with weighty purple velvet to shut out the draughts.

On the dais was a throne of carven ivory, and above it a canopy of baudekin of the goodliest fashion, and there was a foot-carpet before it, wrought with beasts and the hunting of the deer.

Shafts of light from above partially illuminated the drunken courtiers as Bib Fortuna crossed the floor to the dais.

Soon, the palace would be filled with crimson capes, and only the Blood of the Fold would be seated at the dais.

She 176 fell in beside her mistress, heeling perfectly as Centaine started up towards the dais.

On the dais, Dandy Lass curtsied politely in front of the prime minister, and at a word from Centaine offered him her right paw.

As he climbed the dais, Corbal watched him, his gaze like a ruby laser.

The vast banner of Ro Holding hung behind the dais, hiding the door, so fragile and old that black swan melted into blue-black night, and only the tarnished threads depicting the stars of the Cygnet in flight seemed to hold the darkness together.

Veda Kong, at a sign from Darr Veter, stood before the screen on a gleaming round metal dais.