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  • From her bridal dais Pasiphae glowed lush as ripe fruit.  (source)
  • She turned and began to walk toward the dais.  (source)
  • The man sitting on a dais and draped with a particolored hide was undoubtedly King Zhou.  (source)
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  • Or take that bureaucrat on the dais with his gavel.  (source)
    dais = raised platform
  • At the far end of the room was a stage, surrounded by curtains on three sides; on the right were two long tables on elevated daises, each bearing ten telephones; on the other side stood the podium, no doubt for the auctioneer.†  (source)
  • His footsteps echoed loudly as he walked slowly towards the dais.  (source)
  • He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.†  (source)
  • As she continued to step slowly forward, at last she realized what the Thing on the dais was.  (source)
  • And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life.)  (source)
    Dais = non-standard use of dais as a pun for the word days
  • One day back in Hasnapur, my mother told me, when the children were gathered under the banyan in the schoolyard, a scooter started sputtering and backfiring very close to Masterji's desk on the raised dais he called his stage.  (source)
    dais = platform
  • She could see everything from here—the dais, the main stairs, the dance floor ….  (source)
    dais = raised platform
  • The judge, a middle-aged, heavyset black woman wearing half-moon glasses, sits opposite, on a dais.  (source)
  • That was the dais where the High Table was, where the King and the great lords sat.  (source)
    dais = raised platform that gives prominence to people on it
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