Sentence examples for magnificent town from inspiring English sources

THE statue of John Bright, a Victorian champion of free trade, outside Manchester's magnificent town hall suggests a city enthusiastic about the market.

Here, I wanted to paint a petite dame, a little old lady who holds her balance in that immense and magnificent town.

THE collapse of Lawrence Salander's Salander-O'Reilly Galleries last year amid accusations of fraud has caused the magnificent town house that it rented at 22 East 71st Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, to be put on the market.

Those who think this is a good idea dream of renewing the kind of government that flourished in Victorian Britain, when councils housed in magnificent town halls decided for themselves what they would spend money on and how they would raise it.

The style is best exemplified by the fort at Agra (built 1565 74) and the magnificent town of Fatehpur Sikri (1569 74), but fine examples are also found in the gateway to the ʿArab Sarāʾī (guesthouse at Humāyūn's tomb), Delhi (1560 61), the Ajmer fort (1564 73), the Lahore fort with its outstanding decoration (1586 1618), and the Allahabad fort (1583 84), now largely dismantled.

As winter sets in in earnest, about mid-December, the rink in front of the Hotel de Ville opens, where one can skate free of charge in front of the magnificent town hall, with the towers and spires of Notre-Dame clearly visible just across the Seine.

Rochdale has a magnificent historic town hall (built 1866 71), an arts and heritage centre (Touchstones Rochdale), and parks and recreational facilities.

In picturesque Arras, I find myself underground again, this time in the cellars beneath the magnificent Gothic-style town hall.

Not far from the château, magnificent 18th-century town houses with iron balustrades and intricately carved stone work were built with slave money.

July 13 2011 In a major mini-festival in New York, Franz Welser-Möst Welser-Möstmagnificent ensembrings town for four concerts pairing two masters of big orchistral sound — Anton Bruckner and John Adamagnificentims thensemblean composer as a musical ancestor.

What I do remember is that I told him I had been invited some years before to deliver a Sydney Silverman Memorial Lecture in the magnificent Victorian Rochdale Town Hall.