Sentence examples for erstwhile house from inspiring English sources

This erstwhile house of torture had passed, as a quid pro quo for being left alone by the secret police, to the only dissident Czech poet ever to win the Nobel Prize.

Many of the politicians keenest to keep China out have come from the region from Dick Gephardt, the erstwhile House minority leader, to Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who is a prominent supporter of the Stopping Overseas Subsidies Act (which is aimed at China).Yet as Mr Han's much-feted entourage learned, not everyone in the mid-west wants to slam the door on China.

Although the erstwhile family home is down a gated cul de sac, a modern housing development on the edge of town has been named Bon Scott Place.

The central narrative of his erstwhile family mansion on Elgin Road, now a museum of Bose memorabilia, is his "great escape" from house arrest.

If it's tipping down Seek refuge in the nearby Hardman's House, the erstwhile home of renowned portrait photographer Edward Chambré Hardman and his wife Margaret.

Jean Bareham's Hidden Gardens of the Royal Mile tour, one of a handful of themed group walks in the city offered by Greenyonder Tours, starts on the north side with Sandeman House, tucked serenely behind the erstwhile home of ranting preacher John Knox.

Williams, the erstwhile family favourite, showed a new one here.

Upstairs, display cases line the walls of the erstwhile ballroom, housing one-of-a-kind artifacts of 20th-century Americana.

This is unsurprising, firstly because several of the most influential zoologists of the late 19th and early 20th century were carcinologists, and secondly because the erstwhile 'higher Crustacea' houses the majority of economically and commercially important species of edible crabs, shrimps, and lobsters.

Erstwhile ally and lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha is now openly plotting against Rousseff.

Here the author succeeds in terms of richness, but there's room for some house-cleaning: "erstwhile" sounds OK but seems more decorative than functional; and the addition of "green, striated" to "Connemara marble" seems to be a case of buying a dog and then barking yourself.