But those lofty houses have yet to invite her to show off their wares.
He praised the beauty of Prague's "narrow and irregular streets, lofty houses of an excellent and extremely varied style of architecture, many highly ornamented" and noted its "ancient monasteries, convents, and churches".
In addition, some 200 warehouses (many of which are now private homes) remain from the 13th and 14th centuries, along with a few lofty merchants' houses.
With more than 50 features crammed into two weeks, it is one of the few festivals in the world that refuses to draw a line between lofty art-house fare and broad popular entertainment, a refreshingly open-minded policy that invariably results in one of the liveliest lineups in town — as well as one of the hardest to encapsulate.
So rapid has been the surge in household debt that despite low interest rates, total mortgage payments are already close to record levels as a share of disposable income in both America and Britain.Home economicsIt is often argued that neither the level of household debt nor the lofty level of house prices need be a problem, so long as interest rates do not rise significantly.
The sheikh and several other men greeted us in a mudhif, a lofty, arched meeting house made of reeds.
Goodbye to lofty, spacious Orchard House, where I (and millions of others) had imagined the real Little Women had lived but where, in fact, the women were no longer little — Beth dead by then, and the workaholic Louisa May old at thirty, sickened by mercury poisoning.
With its cobbled streets, gabled houses, lofty spires and 100km of meandering canals, Bruges is a strollers' paradise, an almost car-free haven founded on the diamond and lace trades nearly a millennium ago.
The Errol Morris parallels don't shy from frothy gossip, but it has a polish that suits both the eccentric plutocrat at its center and the lofty platform that houses it (along with an opening-credit sequence that feels like a blatant "True Detective" ripoff).
The swells of Nashville live in Belle Meade, a suburb of enormous houses beneath lofty shade trees on even more enormous lawns.
