On each side, seven columns supported the arched ceiling, and thick Khalidoran tapestries draped the walls to fight the autumnal chill.
Their voices, a blend of proud and plebeian, would, when taken with the early autumnal chill, have suggested they were Tories in Brighton for their Party's annual conference.
It was a glorious morning with a faint autumnal chill which would presently give way to the sun's warmth.
As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door, she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air.
The evening wind carried a foretaste of autumnal chill as it sighed through the grasses around them.
Fortunately, it was a lovely morning, for the wagon provided no shelter, and although there was an autumnal chill in the air, that soon disappeared.
If there were chauffeurs they had not been left to fend for themselves in the autumnal chill.
A series of grainy photo-based pieces by Felix Gonzalez-Torres on the theme of skies and birds, spaced throughout the two floors, gives a sad, autumnal chill to the show.
Now the sea-wind was sharp with an autumnal chill.
An autumnal chill was in the air.