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  • The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
  • The army headquarters is on the other side of the square, in a former colonial mansion.
  • “Prospered, quotha!” said the mercer; “why, you remember Cumnor Place, the old mansion-house beside the churchyard?” Kenilworth
  • It was a magnificent old mansion, filled with magnificent antiques. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • Guiding the girls out of the mansion through the smashed windows, Robert led them around to the front of the house.
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  • On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
  • Bobby Kennedy declared Sinatra's home a security risk, and the President had to cancel his stay at the Sinatra mansion.
  • Converted castles, mansions and monasteries are among the 85 paradores - or top-class hotels - run by the Spanish government.
  • The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need. Finnegans Wake
  • She happily green-lighted zoning changes to allow a few small cottages to be demolished and replaced by impressive mansions.
  • To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron. Drives That Leave the City Behind
  • Jason gives a detailed account of the creation of the boiserie for an early eighteenth-century Parisian mansion and its recent restoration and installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
  • She had gone to that bungaloid mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb certain she would find her patient kept under duress, perhaps even physically a prisoner, possibly maltreated, and she had been prepared to call the police and tell them here was someone detained against his will. Portobello
  • It was the kind of unspectacular housing block that makes up vast swaths of the city, scattered in between the genteel stucco mansions that make it into the films. NDTV News - Top Stories
  • Despite the mansion, the horses and a pedigree that probably reached back a hundred years before the Civil War, she'd bet he was one of the good old boys who thought of women as "honeys" and Only You
  • We don't care about the experts turning that two-bedroom shanty into a beautiful mansion, we want to see that arrogant caulker shoot a roofing nail into his foot and fall into a tree mulching machine.
  • His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for “blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • Manage Britney Spears 'Facebook, Twitter, Harvard Degree Required Britney leaves' jinxed 'home behind and moves into $9m mansion as she starts afresh Robert Pattinson gets in trouble for cutting his trademark locks. WeSmirch
  • Before Lain had left the mansion completely she was able to find the antidote to her poison.
  • Off a tiny lane lined with tailors' shops, this traditional Damascene mansion overlooks an atmospheric courtyard.
  • Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
  • But he had been at the Green mansion and he had seen that misty figure in the flowing Mandarin robes, and he vas afraid Chang was wrong. THREE IN ONE
  • In the 14th Century a manor house was built on the site and it became a mansion in the 1800s.
  • I felt as if we had been invited to the Mansion House by one who did not know the Lord Mayor himself.
  • And what about Queen's Park, the Town Gardens and the concert bowl, and Lydiard Park and its beautifully restored mansion?
  • Next to the Mansión de don Aurelio Ibarra (# 15) is don Aurelio's old, two-storey mercantile building, built at the end of the last century. El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona
  • He looked at it suspiciously, and as he grabbed for it, the thunder only began to clamor loudly, sending more rain to beat down on the mansion.
  • People shot and stabbed and strangled each other in sleazy bars and hillside mansions, strip malls, abandoned houses and parking lots. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
  • He lives in £10 million, faux Tudorbethan mansion on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula near Poole in Dorset, and is a director of three companies whose activities are described as "the acquisition and development of real estate". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion, the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration.
  • Displays of wealth can also be misleading. Folks can appear wealthy -- but the mansion may be fully mortgaged, the cars might be leased and the landscaper may still be awaiting payment.
  • The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
  • She even tried to get us to move over there and live with her in her mansion, but my dad didn't want to uproot his family.
  • They spend a night in the Birchall mansion where Pythias and Damon play chess. The woe of an aspiring genius.
  • The mansion was of plaster striped with timber, called calamanco work.
  • The next day the Chancellor went to the Mansion House, probably in the same creased suit, and delivered his annual homily on the state of the economy.
  • According to a column Barlow wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in addition to a tuition increase, a few "bulleted" items on the proposal will include reducing administrators 'six-figure salaries by 10 percent, suspending state funding for the $750,000 renovation of University President Michael Adams' mansion and further separating the University Athletic Association and the coach's salaries from state funding. The Red and Black
  • But, given these similarities, it's at least possible that he might have followed Axl Rose's lead, turning into a loopy, mansion-bound recluse, tinkering with unfinished projects, piling on the suet and emerging sporadically to sue his ex-bandmates and have a punch-up with Tommy Hilfiger. Never mind Nevermind, 1991 was all about Guns N' Roses
  • When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone.
  • Century, published by Simon and Schuster is a magical gothic tale about a strange family living in a dark, decaying mansion where it is always dark and eternally winter.
  • Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
  • Then I went over to the vice-president's mansion and played tennis at the naval observatory in Washington a bunch of times.
  • His new luxury mansion was a world away from the tiny house where he was born.
  • The 31 year old peer lives in a mansion on the Cirencester Park Estate.
  • Now, political observers say, there's little chance the embattled congressman will pursue Gracie Mansion, upending the field of hopefuls looking to replace Mr. Bloomberg. Weiner Upends Mayoral Field
  • Presumably, that and the rest of Duke's so-so publicity over recent months has put something of a damper on his efforts to unload the mansion.
  • Sited on a sandstone outcrop, Nottingham Castle was rebuilt as a duke's mansion in the 1670s after the original structure had been destroyed during the English Civil War.
  • This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • We have our own architecture with the famous shotgun houses and Creole cottages and the mansions in the Garden District.
  • ‘This dear paradise’, as she called it, is a white granite mansion in Scots baronial style, and embodies modifications suggested by Prince Albert.
  • Misha wasn't buying it — and as the greatest regret of Viko's current incarnation was "chickening out" or his leap from the top of one of the buildings in Albany's Egg Plaza the summer after 8th grade and opting, instead, for a "pity me, save me" fake suicide attempt in his parent's mansion in Loudonville , he felt the time had come at last to do the deed. Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
  • The real problem with the big-screen televisions is that, like Hummers or McMansions, they offend the sensibilities of many in California's political class, to whom the notion of overconsumption is sinful. City Journal
  • We, descendants of human suffering, are living in a fine mansion at the edge of a precipice.
  • Mansion House was a magnet for the powerful, both native and foreign.
  • The abbey appears to have been almost abolished shortly after the Reformation, the only parts of the monastic buildings allowed to remain being the fratery and portions of the chapter-house, which were incorporated with the mansion-house. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
  • Even holding the week at his mansion, with the stories of his dead wife haunting the place, added to the mysterious feel of the week.
  • Later, Orr settled with his family in Dillon, where his mansion still stands.
  • The front door of the capacious old mansion stood open.
  • The appearnace of the mansion as a Greek temple presiding over a city named in his honor provided a concrete association between Washington and the deific omnipotents of the past.
  • Spanish colonial mansions, cathedrals, churches, and houses adorn the streets of both cities.
  • Plans for extensive work on the mansion had to be abandoned.
  • She lives in Guilin Mansion.
  • Inside the mansion, the hostages have displayed gallantry, solidarity and stoicism.
  • An eccentric aristocrat is hoping to give away his 16-bedroom mansion to a complete stranger and then move into "the comfort" of a council house, it emerged today. Archive 2005-12-01
  • They had not only defeated the evil Mayor but had taken out his guards and nabbed several choice pieces of loot from the mansion.
  • For some inexplicable reason, some rooms of the mansion will suddenly turn very cold.
  • It has 106, enough to protect their headquarters in an Ottoman-era mansion on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad and not much else.
  • The houses all looked like mansions in my opinion.
  • They were watched by scores of police sharpshooters and commandos deployed on roofs and sidewalks around the mansion.
  • As the narrator cleans the mansion of his dead employer, the reader learns of Kaji's predilection for cloning dead celebrities and engaging in lascivious acts. REVIEW: Voices From Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
  • Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage.
  • Glenlivet and her daughters received the intelligence that the only son of the house was about to bring an English bride to the grey old Scotch mansion where so many generations of his "forbears" had lived and died. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
  • His mansion was noble, his library extensive, and his own manners such as conciliated the esteem of almost every one who approached him. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • The grade 1 listed Gothic mansion which will be home to Hirst's collection is believed to have been an inspiration for the Houses of Parliament.
  • The mansion was surrounded by wide green lawn, decorated with swags and garlands.
  • In 1791 James Hoban (1762-1831) won the commission to build the presidential residence with his plan for a Georgian mansion in the style of Andrea Palladio.
  • Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel.
  • Normally, the gate of a large mansion house faces the south.
  • Mrs. Winchester believed ill would befall her if she ever stopped altering her sprawling mansion.
  • From the top of the small hill on which the large, Italianate mansion sat, you could see past the lawn to the edge of a small lake. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
  • The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
  • [Footnote 1: The word mas, which is kin with the English manse and mansion, signifies the home in the country with numerous outbuildings grouped closely about it.] Frederic Mistral
  • Claudio tells us that the building where Piave (Italian for "river") is located dates back to 1730 and was once a meson or mansion owned by the Floris family. The magic of Bernal, Queretaro: wine, opals and historic charm
  • In September we found ourselves owners of a Victorian, former Duchy of Cornwall flat in a mansion block on a 90-year lease with a secluded garden.
  • The superstar's Coral Gables mansion was battered by gale force winds which left windows smashed and wrecked her garden.
  • One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
  • The last stronghold of the Druids, it was also rich in history and lore, from its moated, thirteenth-century Beaumaris Castle to its Tudor pubs and Georgian mansions. William and Kate
  • His new luxury mansion was a world away from the tiny house where he was born.
  • A 200-year-old mansion in the heart of Ayrshire with a picturesque practice course and 10 local courses.
  • Heshen Mansion in Chengde, to a certainty, is a historic and cultural relic, but its whereabouts keeps "unknown"a nd the sayings about its ruins are various.
  • Cyrus is after another unquiet soul to add to what looks like a spectral petting zoo in the basement of his state - of-the-art glass mansion.
  • Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • ‘Wisha! wisha,’ says I. ‘A pound of chops,’ says he, ‘coming into the Mansion House.’ Dubliners
  • From there it was easy sneaking past the random guards making their rounds through the mansion.
  • The local gothic mansion, Bled Castle, is situated on a cliff overlooking the lake and dominates the landscape.
  • The Harlem of 1921 was already an urban blight, although only a few years separated these once fine homes from the mansions and townhouses of upper crust New York in those days.
  • The 31 year old peer lives in a mansion on the Cirencester Park Estate.
  • This old mansion became a large hospital.
  • To get to Bomka, Emil parked near his mansion and spent the predawn hours wrapped in blankets, sitting in the van.
  • Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies.
  • The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion: — a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gabel end of yellow brick, Tales of a Traveller
  • There are two evocative groups of surviving mansions and period houses on Fifth Avenue, each worth a fresh look on summer stroll.
  • She is rumoured to have viewed almost every supersized mansion in the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades. David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
  • But millions of others make that daily commute to the city from their 5,000-square-foot mini-mansions in the "slurbs," deterred, at the moment, only by traffic and the time it takes to get home.
  • Frequently I ended those runs at the McDonalds or the local bakery, both about a half mile from the mansion, where I'd get a cup of water, then walk back home.
  • An unsuitable Palladian mansion in an unexciting East Anglian village on the edge of the black fens.
  • Ryo was the only one who had never been there before, and he looked around with unconcealed interest as they rode up to the mansion.
  • The family lived in a WEE MANSION - albeit called the manse or rectory - the sort of country pile which would fetch a couple of MILLION now. Cameron simply lacks the upbringing. ....
  • In case I die it would be a karmic accident sent here on earth for my forefathers sins to repent maundy thursday stations of the cross the holy month of lent desolate dissolute man he came he saw his death he need not invent an accident god sent hopes as large as mansions trying to fit in a tattered and torn tent silent scriptures bleeding sorrow An Accident « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • A little drib of news about the forthcoming Haunted Mansion movie: Boing Boing: February 2, 2003 - February 8, 2003 Archives
  • Towards the end of his life he was living in a dilapidated four-bedroom flat in a 1930s mansion block in north London; he would often take his meals at a cafe in Willesden.
  • The first great shadow that fell on this united little circle was when George Mansion's mother quietly folded her "broadcloth" about her shoulders for the last time, when the little old tobacco pipe lay unfilled and unlighted, when the finely-beaded moccasins were empty of the dear feet that had wandered so gently, so silently into the Happy Hunting Grounds. The Moccasin Maker
  • The Summer Palace at Beijing with its archaic temples, pavilions, huge mansions, lakes etc. make a superb picnic spot.
  • The invitation to Valentino Mansion said semiformal, but it was the semi part that was tricky Like a night without a party “semi” opened up too many possibilities. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
  • She had never seen such beautiful homes that were rather mansions than mere houses.
  • Now the few ancestral mansions embower themselves in an aristocratic seclusion of trees and vines that shut them in with their birds and flowers and sunshine, and the Van Ness Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
  • The computer was one of many left inside the immaculate $ 1. 325 million mansion at 18241 Colina Norte.
  • This ritzy, colonial-style mansion is the perfect seaside retreat for sailing and watersport types. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the Bush years, Washington got used to a homebody president who preferred bringing friends into the Executive Mansion to venturing outside it.
  • Let's challenge some interior decorators to revamp one of Kerry's five mansions.
  • He nodded toward his Jacobian mansion atop a rise of smooth lawn. Moontide
  • It had a sitting room, dining room and kitchen, plus a huge terrace with views to the beach and the beautiful mansions of the rich and famous.
  • One site draws them: a 13th-century mansion linked, a bit spuriously, to "Romeo and Juliet".
  • So they live in a mansion Big deal!
  • Once wore a new flower town, got into new flower city, until the castellan mansion that lately spends city ......of a super big house on the side ahead, the month does just come to a stop.
  • Both had been stuck outside the city for a long while waiting for the Senate to vote them their triumphs—years, in the case of Lucullus, who had whiled away his time building a vast retreat at Misenum on the Bay of Naples as well as his mansion north of Rome. CONSPIRATA
  • On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella. Archive 2006-12-01
  • Not only is there a mansion house of architectural and historic importance, there is prime farmland, with the whole estate extending to some 1330 acres.
  • When a man lives in a multi-million dollar mansion and makes a hundred million a year, his kids are more than likely to become drug-using sybarites.
  • Even though she has been a multimillionaire for a long time, living in mansions for the past four decades, she is still saying who she is depending on who the audience are, mostly the common people. Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky
  • The BBC's John James in Bouake says Mr Gbagbo is holed up inside the fortress-like presidential mansion, with his last remaining allies and the Republican Guard.
  • Plus, it's a great way to give your mansion halls that authentic blood-and-guts-splattered-look you just can't get from rust-coloured paint. Weekly
  • The Haunted Mansion looked exactly like its name - a haunted place that had seen much death and destruction.
  • On the right of the fire was a razeed rocking-chair, evidently the peculiar property of the mistress of the mansion, and three blocks of pine log, sawn off smoothly, and made to serve for seats. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • There was, he said, a mansion waiting for them in heaven.
  • The range of property, from mansions to well-controlled new-builds, has been a major draw. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or," she writes, "it could just be that women with more education and more money relate on a subconscious level to the young and handsome Barack and Michelle Obama, with their white-porticoed mansion in one of the cooler Chicago neighbourhoods and her Jimmy Choo shoes. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Divorce ceremonies were pioneered about a year ago by a former salesman, Hiroki Terai, who set up a "divorce mansion" in a small undercover space in Tokyo.
  • The Mayor and Mayoress of Doncaster had been suffering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating pigeon pie provided for their guests at an entertainment at the Mansion House.
  • Hence, Plato introduces Socrates as observing that "the sages who introduced the Teletæ had positively affirmed that whatever soul should arrive in the infernal mansions _unhouselled_ and _unannealed_ should lie there immersed in mire and filth. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
  • We've got a beautiful arboretum and gorgeous public gardens and a world class aquarium and nature trails and historical mansions.
  • Heading towards the Borders, at Bemersyde, the garden of the 16th century peel tower to which a mansion house was added in the 17th century, was laid out by Field Marshal Earl Haig.
  • These included the Manhattan Project and housing the 'Arsenal' robots in a hidden subbasement in his mansion. Kenneth Branagh Talks Thor | /Film
  • The mansion was retrofitted with modern plumbing
  • On January 26th 2010, mr craig wrote: tiger woods. .be a man for once. .be proud, ,take control, ,how about buying out hugh at the playboy mansion, ,help save a old man in trouble, Tiger Woods Accident Update: Wife Rumored to Have Beat Woods with Golf Club (Video)
  • The ground on which the match is being played is, literally, next door to his mansion.
  • Private security analysts observe the mansion is still very vulnerable to attack in a country awash with guns.
  • Even to an Irishman used to castles and mansions, this Australian homestead was imposing. THE THORN BIRDS
  • If the voters of Florida and Michigan are upset, and feel disenfranchised the correct place to take up their concerns is at the govenors mansion. paul DNC faces big challenge Saturday
  • There was, he said, a mansion waiting for them in heaven.
  • They have performed in a range of different homes from suburban semis and flats to country mansions.
  • A reclusive ex-rock-star's London mansion is used as a hideout by a violent protection racket thug, played by James Fox.
  • Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • Kaler also restored the McLemore Mansion, also known as the Lasker Home for Homeless Children. The Daily News - News
  • Looks like a 'befor' de war 'place," Jim returned, as he viewed the rickety condition of what had once been one of Maryland's finest country mansions. Dorothy's Triumph
  • The boxes were heavy, and the mansion so huge that I wished for a cart or a wheelbarrow.
  • They live in a suburb of Boston in a mansion that looks like an urban city library.
  • As a general thing, we have been shown through palaces by some plush-legged filagreed flunkey or other, who charged a franc for it; but after talking with the company half an hour, the Emperor of Russia and his family conducted us all through their mansion themselves. The Innocents Abroad
  • Belgravia, that pale and polite district, where all the inhabitants look prim and correct, and the mansions are painted a faint whity-brown: I lose myself in the new squares and terraces of the brilliant bran-new Bayswater-and-Tyburn – Junction line; and in one and all of these districts the same truth comes across me. The Book of Snobs
  • Obama, who has said her first priority would be her family, talked to Bush about how she could make the presidential mansion "homelike" for her girls. ABC News: ABCNews
  • Each room of the mansion presents a unique and different puzzle to be solved.
  • They had indeed arrived in the dining-parlour of the mansion, where the table was superabundantly loaded, and where the number of attendants, to a certain extent, vindicated the sarcasms of the young nobleman. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • Alone on his 49th birthday, President Barack Obamafled the empty White House mansion and headed for a more intimate celebration with longtime friends in his Chicago hometown.
  • The Weatherfords, multimillionaire mine-people, and so newly rich that the crisp bank-notes fairly crackled when Mrs. Weatherford spent them, kept their lackeyed and liveried state in a castle-like mansion in Mesa The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • Benny Hinn, Peter Poppof (sp) and Pat Robertson live in mansions on the money taken from the gullible. Apoplectic Atheists « Anglican Samizdat
  • As competition for the most impressive summer house flourished, huge mansions took shape among the hills.
  • Gwen pulled to a stop in front of the Browning mansion, the Benz's engine purring softly under the shiny silver hood.
  • Hatchards specialise more in the sort of hardbacks that would look good on the bookshelves of the library in the west wing of one's stately mansion.
  • He concluded that, ‘Civilization is a fine thing, and it may spread itself like a green bay tree in the cities, and lordly mansions of the millionaires, with al!’
  • I think what ` s very interesting to add here is Tiger Woods is still here in Orlando, kind of holed up in his mansion there, and we understand that they ` re going through intense marriage counseling. CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009
  • In some well-heeled, McMansion-pocked suburbs, plywood nativities have been supplanted by elaborate sets with period costumes, soundtracks, Hollywood-esque lighting and camels rented for the occasion. Awry in a Manger:
  • Restoration has featured all styles and periods - from crofts and castles to factories and country mansions - dating from medieval times to the 20th century.
  • In 1568 however, following the Battle of Langside, in which William Chancellor fought in the cause of Queen Mary, Regent Moray sent out a party of 500 horsemen to destroy the mansions, castles and fortalices of her adherents.
  • As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
  • Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction. Regeneration
  • Or maybe it's better defined as a leaseholder who refuses to attend an extraordinary meeting of their stucco mansion block's management committee when the agenda includes an item entitled: 'How can we evict that 80-year-old regulated tenant on the top floor and enhance the value of our building? Hugh Muir's diary
  • Camelot Schools has contracts worth $13.1 million to run the Excel Academy, an alternative school for "over-age" high school students on Bustleton Avenue, near Harbison, in the Northeast; and two disciplinary schools, Daniel Boone, at 26th and Jefferson streets, Strawberry Mansion, and Shallcross, at Woodhaven Road near Knights, in the Far Northeast. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Lying to the north of the mansion and set among newly planted wild meadows, the seed bank adds to the attractions with a winter garden and parterre open to the public.
  • It wasn't until I got shipped out to the cold sandstone mansion that the tenets of religion were spooned into his unwilling thrapple.
  • I went out the back gate of the Governor's Mansion, through the old Quapaw Quarter, then downtown to the Old State House.
  • The extravagant mansions built on the island of Syros reflect the wealth of these early magnates.
  • It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single, overcrowded space.
  • Heres one for you maybe Brits would be living in mansions flying round in jet planes if we hadnt took pity on some of the useless immigrants. Griffin, The 'C' Word and the BNP
  • Morgan mentally scolds herself at her slanderously obtuse remark as Jody's mansion lay just a block down.
  • Next they'll announce that they won't tax the rich anymore because it poops the taxman out to walk up all those stairs at the mansion.
  • An interesting item here was a large, framed photograph of a huge, cupolaed mansion typical of the early 70's.
  • The Bodens lived in a mansion in Saratoga, not far from my grandparents' home in Los Gatos.
  • After a panicked 9-1-1 call from Spector’s driver, police discovered Clarkson’s body at the producer’s mansion in Alhambra, California. People Born on December 26 | myFiveBest
  • It is known as the baronial, and architects in all parts of the country, when building a modern mansion in the castellated manner, have invariably followed it. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852
  • The infighting has been an unwelcome distraction for a candidate who was poised to sail into the governor's mansion after winning a commanding 49% of the vote in a four-way primary. South Carolina's Haley Faces Fire From Party Members
  • Emi's limo was currently taking the scenic route, with its eventual destination as the Ishiyama mansion.
  • The rebels besieged the heavily-fortified executive mansion.
  • One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force.
  • He hoped so, because compared to where he lived, she and her dad had a friggin ' mansion. TRUST ME
  • She listened for Sara or any other maid and heard them outside the mansion.
  • Some of the several hundred A-list invitees were employing huge soup spoons to slather the stuff onto blinis in one of the many living rooms of his mansion.
  • But once the ceremony was complete the leaders went with the colonial dignitaries to the Governor's mansion to celebrate.
  • He is reportedly buying an 8, 000-square-foot mansion on four acres in Bel-Air for $ 6. 5 million.
  • Amy Chua lives in New Haven, Conn., in an imposing mock-Tudor mansion — complete with gargoyles — that was built in the 1920s for a vaudeville impresario.

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