It was an uncomfortable moment on the dais when the audience stared in shocked silence at the speaker.    From LearnThat.org. 

 Do you think the placement of this dais is a coincidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ‘Mission Accomplished’ By The Numbers] Reference

Many kicho were arranged along the east side of the Queen's dais from the inner room to the veranda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan] Reference

KT -- the online version itself omitted my own inclusion among the ranks of dragon ladies, so the dais is going to be positively aflame!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow THIS.] Reference

Before the dais was a small uncomfortable chair of black wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

Above the dais was another balcony, exactly like the one in the room we had left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim]

There, as he had been for days, seemingly without sleep, seated on the dais was the Persian boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Among those on the dais were the Angels 'Mike Scioscia and the Rockies' Jim Tracy, managers of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference

Above and to the left of the dais was a tall podium or lectern, made of some sort of reflective blue metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness]

At the farther end of the dais is a door, now covered over, leading to the antechamber known as the Horn Room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hampton Court] Reference

And there on the dais was a table dight with dainty meats and drinks, and the lady bade us thereto, and we sat to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Among those gathered on the dais is a competitor who allows that the new phone is "good," as are many others like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [LinuxInsider] Reference

Sprawled about the dais were a dozen huge forms, while upon the seat of one of the thrones a small cub lay curled in slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Continent] Reference

The sole piece of furniture on the dais was the autarch's chair-a light wood, probably white oak or young cherry, stained green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Chaos]

The young man on the dais was a scribe, and he recorded each request for Nicholas to review later, along with any decisions made.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference

On top of the dais was the membership charter that was ready for the Emperor's signature in the event that the decision was in his favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Destruction]

Creating a platform within the alcove and piling it with pillows gave her a kind of dais on which she sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

At one end there was a kind of dais on which was placed a few chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Passage] Reference

It was large, and raised upon a kind of dais covered with a carpet of subdued tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantômas] Reference

In the first of these bas-reliefs we see the Queen-mother Mautemua kneeling on a kind of dais, having just given birth to the royal infant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

The dais was the stage, with three footlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

A kind of dais, right across that corner, to take in two windows; with a carpet on it, and a chair, and a little table. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Folks] Reference

A kind of dais, sat a woman -- a woman whose eyes sought his in a steady regard which flashed a thrill through his whole body as he gazed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

And what was his "realist" dad thinking up there on the dais?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inaugural Blog] Reference

Brown confusion -- check Karen Gray Houston's dais theatrics!.    From Wordnik.com.  [DeMorning DeBonis: Aug. 17, 2010] Reference

The bridal dais had been stripped of its linens and disassembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Remains II] Reference

He reached for this hand, clutched it tightly and led her off the dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

But in this land, disharmony on the dais is as welcome as food poisoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random Access Online: Wa's Up?] Reference

We were seated at a specially prepared dais some 100 feet above the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From North Korea] Reference

Abrams, a lawyer by training, delighted in rhetorical duels from the dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former MoCo school board member dies] Reference

In public life, Mr. Abrams was equally well known for rhetorical duels on the dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen N. Abrams, outspoken Montgomery County school board member, dies at 67] Reference

"This was about women in film-not Brandon Tartikoff," says one guest who was on the dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tv King's Rough Passage] Reference

His somber face, staring down from the dais, was seen daily on live television broadcasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grin and Bear It] Reference

When I first saw Arafat he was sitting at the end of a long table on kind of a raised dais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgotten] Reference

From the dais, Brown has been an outspoken advocate for job creation and workforce training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brown makes his play to be D.C. Council's captain] Reference

On the day of the dedication in 1962, she stood on the dais with Halaby and President Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purpose-Driven Wife] Reference

Perched in plain view at the front of the dais, China's economic czar scoured over another document and occasionally scribbled notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Power] Reference