Sentence examples for gracious house from inspiring English sources

This fall, Regeb Misellati, the former head of Libya's central bank, greeted me at his gracious house in Tripoli.

Where to Stay We rented La Cubia, a large, gracious house with a lush garden.

She's up early preparing her gracious house for the wedding, and for the arrival of an old boyfriend, who's bringing pot.

Inside the family's modest, gracious house, the film relaxes and slows down, and Mr. Daniels reveals himself, once again, to be singularly adept at capturing the informal rhythms of leisure.

"We're going to be the supervisor and watchdog," Mr. Soong declared in an interview in the dining room of a gracious house that he said belongs to his mother.

Before all this, before her gracious house overlooking Huntington Bay became a hotel of sorts for grieving visitors, Mrs. O'Neill did not own the black suit with brass buttons.

These gracious houses, commissioned by merchants in the 18th and 19th centuries, are still private homes.

We drove through a neighborhood of gracious houses with deep lawns, where the for-sale signs were from Sotheby's, and parked by a steep cliff.

Pelham, with its tree-lined streets and gracious housing stock from the 1920's, has been described as Westchester's best-kept secret.

Walking up the main road in Aldona toward the bus stand, with rain-washed emerald fields on one side and a line of gracious houses on the other, Infanta Maria was happy to discuss the recent achievements of female council heads.

Among Hamburg's many other facets are a network of canals reminiscent of Amsterdam; lakes, parks, and verdant suburbs full of gracious houses; elegant shopping arcades; richly endowed museums; and a vibrant cultural life.