Sentence examples for plain mansion from inspiring English sources

The paper-­engineered version of the Casa Batlló, a plain mansion in Barcelona's Eixample district that Gaudí remodeled into a glittering piece of anthropomorphism, is similarly satisfying: from the sparkling facade, McCarthy juts out the famous skull balconies that draw gawkers on the street below.

This side of the mansion is plainer, more restrained and built into the slope of the hillside.

Puff Daddy, P. Diddy or just plain Diddy, has bought a newly built mansion on the Westside for $39 million.

A mansion became any condominium, large or small, plain or extravagant (Seidensticker 2010).

Lincoln, during the Civil War, refused to make the mansion a garrison, but made quiet concessions to reality: plain-clothed sentinels patrolled the property.

But the three-way race for the governor's mansion in Virginia, featuring two yuppie lawyers and a plain-talking grandfather, will be one of the first electoral tests of how much damage George Bush has suffered.At first blush, the Virginia race should be a walkover for the Republican nominee, Jerry Kilgore.

Ahmed Wali Karzai's house is a mansion in a blocked-off street in downtown Kandahar City, guarded by plain-clothed police and barely visible behind blast barriers.

And this electoral season, Tipper Gore's Ginger Snaps, plain-Jane ginger and molasses cookies, probably won't hold up against Laura Bush's flashy Texas Governor's Mansion Cowboy Cookies.

On display will also probably be shutters from the plain-spoken farmhouse John Jay grew up in; Ms. Clary says she believes they were scavenged for Peter's new mansion and reused in a ceiling to dampen sound.

Another mansion.

The mansion remained silent.