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Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain.

There was a note on the hallstand.

I heard him talking to himself and heard the hallstand rocking when it had received the weight of his overcoat.

Dad looks into the hallstand mirror, and adjusts his silk tie. '

He leapt towards the front door, scooping his anorak off the hallstand as he went.

But it was only an overcoat that Mrs Kemp had left hanging on the hallstand.

Walking through to the hallway, the woman picked up the telephone receiver and flicked open the book lying beside it on the narrow hallstand.

He picked up his black trilby from the marble hallstand and kicked up his bike.

He was fussing at the hallstand, looking for the hat-brush, and answered me curtly: "Yes, boy, I know."

In the dimly lit hall there stood a vast hallstand with some tricky inlaid ivory, two clothes-brushes and a Soviet officer's peaked hat.

'Well, on the hallstand we have a set of those ball things Argentinian cowboys swing round their heads and jump in and out of.'

She tried in Downes's bag and then in the pockets of her waterproof and then on the hallstand but nowhere could she find it.

We handed him our raincoats, and after he had hung them up on a huge and hideous hallstand, we followed him up the uncarpeted stairs.

There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through, the ticking of the clock, the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand.

There was an oak hallstand with a fogged mirror, a pile of faded carpets and tapestries, oriental vases, a complete leather-bound edition of Balzac, and glass cases of silver and china.

But he saw then that Mrs Flannery was arranging some flowers on a hallstand by the beaded-glass front door, and had turned her full gaze towards him and Mrs Heggarty.

Her decolletage was so deep that the pale pink areolas of her nipples showed, but as he hung up his raincoat on the hallstand and walked across the marble floor -towards her, he made a conscious effort not to look.

She might as well have been a hall tree.

I picked my coat and hat off the hall tree.

She stood making last-minute adjustments in front of the hall tree mirror.

The woman indicated a wooden hall tree, and I hung the jacket there.

He pulled off his coat, hung it on the hall tree, and followed her into the den.

Alex took it and left it on the hall tree with his umbrella.

She hung the coat on an oak hall tree, which looked a hundred years old and worth a small fortune.

The man called Casey took his wet coat off and hung it carefully on the hall tree by the door.

"Let's go," I said, retrieving a sweater from the hall tree.

We entered the sheriffs corridor to see a woman hanging an umbrella on a hall tree.

I unlocked my office and hung my jacket on the wooden hall tree.

In Victorian times some of the better quality hall trees were made of walnut or oak.

Seized by a sudden impulse, I snatched a cloak from the hall tree and darted out after her.

Then she nodded, took a parka from the hall tree, and guided me down the stairs and out a back door.

She took her cloak from the hall tree where Frannie had left it for her.

Most Hall Trees are made of wood.

The hall tree is 17 feet tall and the rest of the house is filled with theater memorabilia and fine art.

These were new forms that appeared about 1840, as homes became larger and social visits became more structured; see also Hall Tree.

What is a Hall Tree?

There was an ancient hall tree, standing lone and empty, and beside it was a full-length mirror that gleamed with recent washing.

Glen Gardner - Hall Tree Farm, (201) 537-2056.

He slipped off his raincoat and hung it on a hall tree, where Legacy tidily collapsed and stowed his umbrella.

The City Hall Tree is a kind of junior sibling to the Rockefeller Center tree: same principle, but lacking the grand scale.

In the fall of 2011 Pine released two tracks on Whatevski Records under the project name The Hall Trees.