Sentence examples for dilapidated palace from inspiring English sources

"The birth of a girl [was] a cause for celebration," recalls Gouri Parvathi Bayi, a member of the erstwhile royal family, sitting in her now slightly dilapidated palace in Kerala's state capital, Thiruvananthapuram.Modern Kerala is still often upheld as India's best state for women.

The birthplace of Jahangir is pointed out in a dilapidated palace not far from this mosque.

Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.

For Rose and Sam, working at this dilapidated palace is what they do.

Their subsequent path southward took them to Delhi, the ancient Mughal capital, where Heber was presented to the ageing emperor Akbar Shah II in his dilapidated palace; Heber wrote of the emperor as "the venerable ruin of a mighty stock".

Crammed into the old center of Naples, on either side of a main avenue nicknamed Spacca Napoli, are dilapidated palaces, gorgeous churches and small shops.

En route, you'll pass narrow lanes crisscrossed with washing lines, lively street markets and glorious but dilapidated palaces and will come away with a sense of having seen something a bit different.

No minotaur lurks in Margate's Winter Gardens, a dilapidated pleasure palace, however.

When he acquired the Fox Theatre in 1987, the dilapidated movie palace slumped alongside a block of board-ups and halfway houses.

For example, I was taken to the centuries-old, dilapidated Pombal Palace, which is currently housing the Carpe Diem Art Foundation.

After arriving at the dilapidated Tuileries Palace, abandoned since the reign of Louis XIV, he was asked for his orders and he replied with uncharacteristic diffidence, "Let everyone put himself where he pleases!" Then, with a sullen poignancy, he asked for a history of the deposed Charles I of England to be brought from the library.