Sentence examples for splendid house from inspiring English sources

Its vision of this splendid house includes an inspection of its foundation.

Serge Rebeillard, aged 77, who has Donzy roots, became a senior economist in Paris and has now retired to a splendid house on the town's main street.

Devastated by the explosion, the splendid house at No. 18 had been reduced to shattered walls and windows.

A friend gave me a dinner party at her splendid house, putting out her good crystal and china.

At Regensburg the splendid house style was based largely on one grand Carolingian book, the golden Gospels of Charles the Bald, in the possession of the Abbey of St. Emmeram.

The novel opens in the summer of 1922; Gatsby has himself become rich, and bought a splendid house on Long Island Sound directly across the bay from the mansion which Tom and Daisy occupy.

In this collection you'll find lawyers and writers, collectors of antiques and owners of splendid houses.

"Carnegie, unlike Frick, never really cared about personal artifacts or splendid houses," according to the Pittsburgh historian Robert Gangewere.

They goggled at the smooth roads, the gleaming hotels and the splendid houses that oil money had bought for their rulers.

Trophy professors are wooed with outsized paychecks, splendid housing, travel allowances, well-endowed research centers, brilliant colleagues -- and the promise that they'll rarely encounter an undergraduate.

One of England's most splendid houses, Chatsworth is notable not only for its garden but also, fittingly, for its gilding, which adorns the rooms and even the window frames on the outside of the house.