The modern Egyptian poet Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd al-Ṣabūr, for instance, depicts a rural preacher in his "Al-Nās fī bilādī" (1957; "The People in My Country"): So-and-so constructed palaces for himself and raised them up… But one weak-echoed evening arrived the Angel of Death… And down into Hell rolled the soul of So-and-so.
In the second of them, A Little Chaos (2014), a handsome 17th-century costume drama of love among the landscape artists at the newly constructed palace of Versailles, Rickman himself presided in his bewigged pomp as Louis XIV, the Sun King.
The pay gap between the top players in rugby union and football may be wide but the 15-a-side code has retained its connection with supporters, not constructing shuttered palaces.
Browder was kicked out of the country, Kolesnikov was told to cease all activity except for constructing the palace, and Morozov was forced to watch the quality of his construction projects deteriorate.
He also moved government institutions south, tore down palaces of Jurchen chieftains in Manchuria, and constructed new palaces in Beijing and Kaifeng.
Now, they construct immense palaces and giant inhabitable robots – usually made out of gold and glass.
He sent men in search of the islands of the immortals and constructed elaborate palaces and towers designed to attract the spirits to him.
The survivors of the great Gallic aristocracy of the pre-Roman period, who first adopted Roman ways and who might eventually have constructed rural palaces, persisted into the 1st century ce but then seem to have been eclipsed by lesser landowners.
Protected and defended by seven circles of walls, constructed of palaces that serve as dwellings for the citizens, the city is located in a place with an ideal climate, conducive to physical health, and on the slope of a hillside because the air there is lighter and purer.
Travelers have been chasing the sun ever since Europe's monarchs started constructing gaudy summer palaces.
