This well-preserved Elizabethan mansion, finished in 1588, is the most ornate in England and a tourist-drawing attraction itself.
The moon rounds the red mansion Stoops to silk-pad doors, Shines upon the sleepless Bearing no grudge, Why does the moon tend to be full when people are apart?
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall's Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.
At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.
It's here, right now, whether you live in a mansion or a rent-controlled apartment.
One day he was passing a splendid mansion, with a crowd of servants lounging in the courtyard.
To satisfy his curiosity he went up to some splendidly dressed servants who stood at the door, and asked one of them the name of the master of the mansion.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
It's All Relative A person who lives in a $100,000 house in a neighborhood of $75,000 homes experiences living in a mansion.
They stopped at Lord Grubbe's stone mansion in Aarhuus.
The wind sweeps over Christianshavn, around the mansion of Kai Lykke, which now is a penitentiary.
(1866) THERE was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with a drawbridge which was but seldom let down:—not all guests are good people.
The great dog by the yard gate of a nobleman's mansion sits proudly on the top of his kennel when the sun shines, and barks at every one that passes; but if it rains, he creeps into his house, and there he is warm and dry.
(1859) "NEAR the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls.
At the border of the wood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditches surrounded it on every side, in which reeds and bulrushes grew.
The schoolmaster got invited to the feudal lord's mansion and had a meal with them.
