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Town hall   /taʊn hɔl/   Listen
Town hall

noun
1.
A government building that houses administrative offices of a town government.





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"Town hall" Quotes from Famous Books



... the principal street of the village. Of course their appearance excited a great deal of wonder, and not a little admiration. Several of the principal citizens, unwilling that their guests should depart unwelcomed, got up an impromptu reception, and the clubs were invited to the Town Hall, where some very pretty speeches were made by the chairman of the Selectmen, of the School Committee, the representative to the General Court, and other distinguished individuals; to whom the commodore replied with a great deal of dignity ...
— All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake - A Sequel to "The Boat Club" • Oliver Optic
... The city has advertised for tenders for a new Court House and a new Town Hall. The one building should cover both, and be near the middle of the business part. That's so—ain't it? Well, land's hard to get anywhere there, and I've the best lots in the town. I guess" (carelessly) ...
— Elder Conklin and Other Stories • Frank Harris
... Ambassador's departure was not attended by any hostile demonstration, but his Excellency before leaving had been justly offended by a harangue made by the Chief Burgomaster of Vienna to the crowd assembled before the steps of the town hall, in which he assured the people that Paris was in the throes of a revolution, and that the President of the ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... on the near-by town hall struck two as she drew up her chair beside him and commenced to read by the shaded light. Across the courtyard the windows were dim yellowish rectangles, with here and there one brighter than the others that told its own story ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... say I did. I'm not a very good hand at doctoring or nursing. I saw him once since he got his commission, glittering with his gold lace like a new weather-cock on a Town Hall. He hadn't time to polish the ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope


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