"We sit in a second-tier box," she presently said.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Sig came home after the opera and told me that he was ruined because he had expected a fortune from Mrs. Madison-you know the old bleached blonde who sits in the first tier box at the opera-and, of course, I smelt another affair.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Facing the aisle on each side long rows of high-backed benches, covered with dark green leather, slope upward tier above tier to the walls of the room; and through them, at right angles to the aisle, a narrow passage, known as the gangway, cuts across the House.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell