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Their labours for the good of others were most carefully recorded—the subscriptions they had made to local charities far away on the other side of the Atlantic, to schoolhouses, and chapels, town-halls, and what not.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

The old Gothic town-halls in Aix, Nuremburg, Cologne, etc., are monuments of municipal thrift and dignity.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

“The Dance of Death,” erroneously considered as Holbein’s, with other similar Dances, however differently treated, have one common subject which was painted in the arcades of burying-grounds, or on town-halls, and in market-places.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Nor do we see why some of these hundreds of half-spoiled buildings might not be used for civil purposes—as almshouses, schools, lecture-rooms, town-halls.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

Subscriptions were made among the rich to give pleasure to the poor; dinners in town-halls for the workingmen; tea-parties in the streets for their wives; and milk-and-bun feasts for the children in the schoolrooms.

From The Little Lame Prince by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock