Sentence examples for mansion down from inspiring English sources

Or a buyer might elect to knock the mansion down and start from scratch.

Four young people stop over night at a lovely old mansion down South.

Tommy Thompson was the pragmatic Republican living in that Governor's Mansion down near the state capital.

They were bored, just sat around and drank, and got into arguments with their wives.… Four young people stop over night at a lovely old mansion down South.

He was living in a pink stucco mansion down the street from the American consul's residence in a palm-fringed neighborhood.

By Benedict Thielen The New Yorker, February 11 , 1939P. 19 Four young people stop over night at a lovely old mansion down South.

From Newport, R.I., famed for its mega-mansions, down through the Hudson Valley and across Long Island's fabled Gold Coast, Vanderbilts, Roosevelts and even fictional Gatsbys once put down roots, but few of their homes still stand, due to a lack of historical interest in earlier times.

Even after the family mansion burns down, he continues to live in its ruins, so intent is he on creating a private garden in a hidden glade.

Guides stopping outside the three-storey LaLaurie mansion further down Royal tell a grisly tale of cruelty to slaves in the mid-19th century.

Electricity use in the mansion was down by about a third this year over the same period last year, when the residence was occupied by Vice President Al Gore.

Moussa Traoré, a former dictator twice sentenced to death, leads a lavish existence on the capital's outskirts, where the grounds of his mansion roll down to the dazzling waters of the Niger river.