Use "dais" in a sentence

1. In the center of the temple on an elevated dais is a statue of the Buddha, a copy of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, it’s serene visage turned down to John, who stands looking up into the Buddha’s face

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2. small dais set with music stands and instruments placed ready for musical hands

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3. The sun is up and a rowdy crowd is gathered around a raised dais in a central square of the city

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4. A hooded executioner stands on the dais, impassively sharpening a tremendous scimitar with a whetstone

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5. The best seats were on a dais to his left and in these seats sat the bank's chairman and his wife, their daughter, government ministers, the chief judge and the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police

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6. The best seats were on a dais to his left and in

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7. hard seats and functional wooden desks, and a raised dais in front of a

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8. onto the dais, where it was added to the already

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9. ” The Elf turned from the capitol script and looked behind the dais upon which they sat

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10. ” They were suddenly back on the dais of the Temple and GingerKat was still speaking, “

11. The Elf looked to the 'cats' still perched at the dais

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12. Husim gave them a wide berth and leapt up onto the dais

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13. The path that led to the Baron’s dais, therefore, was clear

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14. These officers were seated on an improvised dais of biscuit boxes, surrounded by the remaining officers of the Staff

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15. The flow of the crowd kept pushing them ever closer to the dais, a huge construction rearing up in tiers of steps and landings, with several railed balconies at multiple levels

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16. Sim was drifting away on a current of persons passing the base of the throne dais, most of them not looking too much more sophisticated than Hartle

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17. They were both sitting on what seemed to be a circular dais with a glassy surface made from a material that only cast the tiniest of reflections and seemed to absorb what little light there was in an uncanny manner

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18. At the head of the room was a raised dais, with a long table, which seated

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19. this, he gallantly trudged down the steps of the dais, to meet the gazes of his

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20. First a few coins and jewels appeared only ten centimeters in the air above the dais in front of Mark and Talia, and they fell and bounced a bit with merry tinkles, then more and more, and then a flood of wealth flowed out of the air

21. A place has been reserved for you at the edge of the dais, or you may choose to join one of the many informal discussions in progress

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22. He stepped up to the stone and laid his palms upon it, and it rose smoothly out of the floor until its lowermost point was two meters above the dais

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23. It appeared that he perched on the surface of the dais beside Mark, his left hand within the stone to his wrist, as he carefully observed

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24. With that he reappeared back beside Mark, while remaining on the dais, manifesting in two places at once

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25. Once he had them gathered into a cluster floating beside him, he placed his hand on the huge stone again, and lowered it back within the dais till only it’s top was exposed

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26. King Dren rose from his seat at the edge of the dais opposite Tithian, and strode confidently to join Somonik and the Eldest, and graced them with a shallow bow before turning to address the assembly

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27. Once Somonik reported that the Assembly had gathered, The Six of Hilia appeared on the dais in an outward-facing circle around the Truthstone

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28. They arrived on the dais at the center of the hall beside the maimed white dragon

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29. She flew off the dais, and was soon surrounded by giants, and deeply Linked with them

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30. He stepped up to the stone and laid his palms upon it, and it rose smoothly out of the floor until its lowermost point was six feet above the dais

31. Dad sat at the far end of the room on a golden dais, with a blue-

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32. need to remember which of these panels on the dais is going to pop open

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33. ” He grinned at us from behind the bul ’s dais

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34. the dais and grab the Book of Thoth

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35. of an oven crashed into the steps of the dais, almost crushing the

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36. In the center of the room, Ra’s sun boat rested on its dais

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37. ) We stood to the left of the dais

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38. On the central dais,

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39. Lord Dagon fretted as he sat on his coral Dais

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40. Ankharet sat in her tall Dais

41. The sun-tanned Leader of the Harad Ghul rose from his black, glass Dais and lofted his scimitar above the goblin and orc army

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42. He warned Ankharet and his gorgon attendants as the crimson sphere appeared before his stone Dais

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43. The large daemon sat on his stone Dais

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44. She noticed the jeweled dagger and note attached to the head of Guardon’s Dais

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45. Rauros sat wearily on the Dais in the Abyssal Cairn

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46. Lord Taliesin of Mystic Down sat impatiently on his Dais

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47. The Baroness of Coermantyr sat on her ivory Dais in the center of the circle of the Lore Masters

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48. The lion sat on a wooden dais a fin above the finely raked sand

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49. Astray climbed onto the dais and crouched at the lion’s feet

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50. The wooden dais sank into the sand, revealing a hidden stairwell

51. At the end of the walkway, a raised dais

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52. But his eyes were focussed on the dais of crystal which rose in the midst of the shimmering array, directly under the red jewel, and on which should be lying the moldering bones, turning to dust with the crawling of the centuries

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53. In her chamber whose ceiling was a lapis lazuli dome, whose marble floor was littered with rare furs, and whose walls were lavish with golden friezework, ten girls, daughters of nobles, their slender limbs weighted with gem-crusted armlets and anklets, slumbered on velvet couches about the royal bed with its golden dais and silken canopy

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54. And in this chamber a man lay on a raised dais

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55. From where they now stood, they could no longer see the dais, but they could see the shadow it cast on the wall behind it

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56. The great shadow engulfed that of the dais

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57. Then slowly it receded, and once more the dais was etched darkly against the wall

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58. "Only a man sleeping on a dais, and a shadow that engulfed him," answered Conan

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59. "What of the thing that stole through the chambers and carried away the man on the dais?"

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60. On the dais lay a young yellow woman, naked and apparently lifeless

61. The man on the dais heaved up to a sitting position, and the fisherman gaped at the full extent of his size, thus revealed

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62. The floor was covered with thick rugs, and there were benches of polished ebony, and an ivory dais heaped with furs

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63. Among the furs on the dais was a gorgeous spotted skin, whose predominant hue was golden

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64. Opposite this, on a dais against the wall, up to which led broad curving steps, there stood a throne of copper, and when Conan saw what was coiled on this throne, he retreated hastily, lifting his scimitar

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65. But to reach it he must mount the dais, a few feet from the throne itself

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66. Eyes glued on the sleeping reptile he reached the dais and mounted the glass steps

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67. Then she saw his shadowy figure and ran toward the dais, crying: 'I want to go with you! I'm afraid to stay alone—oh! She threw up her hands with a terrible scream as for the first time she saw the occupant of the throne

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68. His half-checked stroke fell futilely as he crashed down on the dais, gashing the scaly trunk but not severing it

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69. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold-domed chamber where Bunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais

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70. Trembling slave-girls knelt at the foot of the dais, and leaning down to him, watching him with passionate intensity, was his sister, the Devi Yasmina

71. The slave-girls at the foot of the dais whimpered with fear, and Yasmina beat her breast in anguish

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72. On the dais under the golden dome the king cried out again, racked by awful paroxysms

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73. She was lying on a dais covered with black velvet

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74. This dais stood in a great, dim room whose walls were hung with dusky tapestries across which crawled dragons reproduced with repellent realism

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75. Then she stumbled and slid to the floor, where she cowered, staring up at the man on the dais

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76. She returned to her own dais, because that was at least more dignified for a queen than groveling on the floor at the feet of a sorcerer, and eyed him apprehensively, expecting reprisals

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77. The Master on his dais was but a shapeless shadow

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78. Her brain reeled with the drugging scent and she sought to crawl from the dais

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79. In a ghostly gray light she saw again the dais and the cryptic robed figure seated upon it

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80. As she stared, there stole over her a nameless fear that froze her tongue to her palate—a feeling that it was not the Master who sat so silently on that black dais

81. Yasmina cowered on the farther edge of a velvet-covered dais, screaming her loathing and horror, an arm lifted as if to ward off attack, while before her swayed the hideous head of a giant serpent, shining neck arching up from dark-gleaming coils

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82. "What do you mean?" growled Conan, clapping his hand to his hilt and stepping about so as to face both the dais and the rest of the room

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83. Olmec nodded, and waved a hand, and Techotl and a woman led the adventurers into a corridor which led through a door off to the left of the jade dais

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