Sentence examples for modest mansion from inspiring English sources

Though forced to leave their stately home in the hills for a more modest mansion in Colombo, the de Silvas, a Tamil family, continue to live a pretty well-heeled life.

By then, Avery (for reasons we can easily infer) has broken up with his adoring wife, moved into his distinguished father's modest mansion and is running for the high office of attorney general of New York.

During the Palladian revival period in Ireland, even quite modest mansions were cast in a neo-Palladian mould.

She thought that the modest house, more fixer-upper than mansion of the Gold Coast ilk, was a good place to start.

Said to be a committed philanthropist who doesn't reveal his causes, he is building a mansion next to the modest house of the father-in-law he admires.

Wami and her husband have a 5-year-old daughter, Eva, and live in a modest house about a mile from Haile Gebrselassie's mansion in Addis Ababa.

They lost their mansion in Nanjing and moved to a modest house among the alleys of Beijing, south-east of the Forbidden City.

Ms. Davenport's approach appealed to this district, which has about 6,300 students, and homes that range from modest to mansions.

YOU won't hear the R-word much in the modest governor's mansion in Helena, Montana.

Just to the north of that are Lavallette and Ortley Beach, where modest bungalows, seaside mansions and relatively new oceanfront condos were pulverized and pancaked onto one another.

He is also converting a modest home into a mansion with a car elevator in the midst of his presidential bid.