Sentence examples similar to a modest mansion from inspiring English sources

Though forced to leave their stately home in the hills for a more modest mansion in Colombo, the de Silvas, a Tamil family, continue to live a pretty well-heeled life.

They lost their mansion in Nanjing and moved to a modest house among the alleys of Beijing, south-east of the Forbidden City.

Wami and her husband have a 5-year-old daughter, Eva, and live in a modest house about a mile from Haile Gebrselassie's mansion in Addis Ababa.

By then, Avery (for reasons we can easily infer) has broken up with his adoring wife, moved into his distinguished father's modest mansion and is running for the high office of attorney general of New York.

During the Palladian revival period in Ireland, even quite modest mansions were cast in a neo-Palladian mould.

Palatial estates to surprisingly modest mansions.

From palatial estates to surprisingly modest mansions, see where the richest people in America live.

Since he sold his East Hampton mansion to Jerry Seinfeld, Joel has been living in a modest rented house nearby.

A modest little house designed.

He is also converting a modest home into a mansion with a car elevator in the midst of his presidential bid.

His 10-house group called Slocum Crescent recalls, in a modest way, the sprawling mansions that were simultaneously on his boards.