For the others there was arranged a supper in the theater; an orchestra on the stage played all the time; the balconies were festooned with flowers and filled with guests; there were supper-tables in the parquet and in the largest loges, and plants and shrubs placed in every available spot.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
The pew loges were running over with handsome girls, and old ladies that tried their best to look like girls, and couldn't, not having the country freshness that some people bring with them from the mountains.
"Phemie Frost's Experiences"
Ann S. Stephens
But the broiling pit was filled, as well as circling tier over tier of loges, and in the street a great crowd jostled and surged, like people who stare at the dead walls of a jail because a man is being hanged inside.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle