Sentence examples for a small villa from inspiring English sources

In her childhood, there were long periods spent in the south, mostly in a small villa outside Cassis.

A much more modest design from the same period shows the unadorned back wall of a small villa, with its vegetable garden shoehorned into a jagged plot.

But inside a small villa a stone's throw from Calle Ocho in the heart of Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood the talk is only of one word – betrayal.

9] dug up the body of Jean de Koven, twenty-two-year-old American dancer, who disappeared from her Paris hotel July 23, from a shallow grave under the doorsteps of a small villa at Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Paris.

The most absorbing interests of his life were his friendships and a small villa that he acquired at Twickenham in 1747 and transformed into a pseudo-Gothic showplace known as Strawberry Hill.

Built as a summer retreat in about 1750 for Claes Grill, a director of Sweden's East India Company, it is a small villa overlooking a bay of the Saltsjon Sea on the eastern approach to Stockholm.

He transformed what Andrea Palladio had conceived as a country retreat into a London mansion appropriate for the lifestyle of the British aristocracy, with its reversal of the usual Italian domestic pattern of a large palazzo in town, and a smaller villa in the country.

For example, in Laglio, where George Clooney owns Villa Oleandra, a small lakefront villa starts at €4 million and rises to €10 million for a large house.

It is a 90-minute drive from Panama City to the burgeoning resort town of San Carlos where, at the end of a bumpy road, a set of gates suddenly swing open to reveal a small seaside villa with painted terra-cotta walls decorated with ship's wheels and other nautical paraphernalia.

They took a small house, Villa Raggio, on a hill above the town.

The external appearance of the building was described as bland and "more like that of a small country villa, or village jail, than a Senate House".