Sentence examples for tiring-house from inspiring English sources

Behind the stage was a tiring-house, the backstage area of the playhouse.

The stage was a 5-foot (1.5-metre) high platform protruding from the tiring-house into the middle of the yard.

Five of the 20 bays of the galleries were cut off by the frons scenae, or tiring-house wall, behind which the actors kept their store of props, costumes, and playbooks and prepared themselves for their performances.

The tiring-house façade was used like the scaenae frons of a Roman theatre to provide a permanent architectural background that, with minimal scenic additions, could be used for a remarkable variety of plays.

The tiring-house wall had two doors on its flanks for entrances and exits and a central opening, normally covered by a set of hangings (Polonius's arras) that concealed the caskets in The Merchant of Venice and Hermione's statue in The Winter's Tale.

Greta feels like a shade amid the palms, haunting two places at once — the idealized Chicago of the past, the husbands and wives dancing, intact; and the dystopic Florida of Ellen's present, the "tropical trees leaking oxygen like bad tires, houses rising out of the green abundance like pastel mushrooms".

She eventually discovered earthship guru Reynolds and his tire house designs.

One day, a couple who was building their own tire house walked into their store to buy some homemaking supplies.

The city is a special case, she said, with "tired older houses on good lots," making the area ripe for teardowns.

Still, there have been reports from many locales in Westchester and points north for well over a year about the Clintons' kicking the tires of houses in places like Bedford and Armonk, and as far away as Woodstock.

A flange sits flush with the tire tread, housing a metal stud that can be deployed at the push of a button within the car for icy road conditions.