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"City hall" Quotes from Famous Books

... and Malone stared after him happily. This was really a nice place, he reflected; almost as nice as the City Hall Bar in Chicago, where he'd gone ...

— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett

... of the city took a just pride in their public buildings. The market place, where traders assembled, often contained a beautiful cross and sometimes a market hall to shelter goods from the weather. Not far away rose the city hall, [8] for the transaction of public business and the holding of civic feasts. The hall might be crowned by a high belfry with an alarm bell to summon citizens to mass meeting. Then there would be a number of churches and abbeys and, if the ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... of restfulness and peace to which New York has long been a stranger. Down towards the point of the island, in the "city" proper, the visitor will find many happy creations for modern mercantile purposes, besides such older objects of architectural interest as Trinity Church and the City Hall, praised by Professor Freeman and many other connoisseurs of both continents. Among these business structures may be named the "Post Building," the building of the Union Trust Company (No. 80 Broadway), ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... your purpose to present it to this beautiful little city, to be placed among its other treasures in the city hall?" ...

— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... back to his office, turned in a police alarm, and waited until a policeman came from the nearest station. Then he went to report the safe-blowing in person to the night captain on duty in the basement of the City Hall. A drowsy clerk took notes of the story, and the night captain contented himself with ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

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