We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.
When Barnabas arises in modern Maine, he finds the family fortunes depleted and the noble mansion of Collinwood in disrepair, yet his descendants who inhabit it remain reassuringly strange.
An American explorer, George Kennan, thus described their Yasnaya Polyana house: "It would be hard to imagine a simpler, barer, less pretentious building". It was unlike the noble mansion with a white balustrade shown in The Last Station: the family lived like the English middle class of the time.
The Marais is that vast old heart of Paris, near the Place de Vosges, still furnished with mostly dilapidated 17th or 18th century noble mansions.
There are Roman ruins, Moorish palaces, Gothic cathedrals, noble mansions in the Mud?r style (a hybrid of Moorish and Christian architectural elements).
There are Roman ruins, Moorish palaces, Gothic cathedrals, noble mansions in the Mudéjar style (a hybrid of Moorish and Christian architectural elements).
By the late twenties, however, Stalin had dampened the freewheeling spirit in the arts, and, anyway, top Party officials had grown used to the comforts of their hotel suites and noble mansions.
I have run all over this luscious landscape, punctuated with proud, columned cypresses and gnarled flourishing olive trees, with tenacious dark ivy snaking its way over noble stuccoed mansions, inhaling herbal scents that hover in the humid air which makes speed impossible.
They all chose a Hogan item, from a sleeveless body warmer to snow mittens, to strike a pose for Mr. Lagerfeld in yet another of his many roles.Suzy Menkes Roger Vivierer: Crystal Palace collection The gilded room was in one of those Paris Left Bank mansions with noble proportions and a vast garden.
He headed west and eventually settled in Dallas, where he erected a mansion befitting an old-world noble in a northern enclave called Preston Hollow.
The words "Bailiff" and "Palace" make odd, if not disconcerting, bedfellows but the 16th-century mansion's origins lie with two noble families and the Lord of Aguilar, a dignitary of the ancient Order of Malta.
