Sentence examples for imposing mansion from inspiring English sources
It is dominated by wide, tree-lined boulevards, high-ceilinged villas, and a shady park that extends outside an imposing mansion, the official home of Pondicherry's lieutenant governor.
The family home was an imposing mansion in Lancashire, Crookhey Hall - the sinister house that features in many of her paintings.
The face of the city and the surrounding foliage, the imposing mansion and the sights of nearby Salzburg, and the billowingly ornate and overstuffed rooms of royal appointment all come to the fore as participants in the mounting crisis of cultural clash.
Later that afternoon, I joined Calatrava at his office, on a narrow side street in the old city, and we walked the few blocks to his home, an imposing mansion that is situated on the main square, opposite the cathedral, and that in the nineteenth century served as the headquarters of the city's Fire Department.
From Blithewold I moved on to Linden Place, an imposing mansion on Hope Street built in 1810 by Gen. George DeWolf, a Bristol entrepreneur who, like many other rich sea captains in town, was making a fortune from plantations, the slave trade and West Indian piracy.
An imposing mansion stood across the road; its once-impressive interior was in disarray.
Most of the imposing mansions now surrounding it were built in the 18th century.
They are often celebrated in their aesthetic side-effects: imposing mansions, cultural patronage, jewels, yachts.
The beautiful old city, with its tree-lined main street, imposing mansions and poetic traditions provides a wonderful backdrop for the music festival.
Many imposing mansions built in the days when Buffalo was the sixth-biggest city in the United States have been spectacularly restored.
The former royal forest of Sherwood was gradually converted into a series of great estates, and the sandy, infertile land was given over to new forest plantations, park landscapes, and imposing mansions (e.g., Welbeck, Wollaton, and Newstead).
