Sentence examples for stone palace from inspiring English sources

Fritz Baggett, the hutmeister, and I had had the old stone palace to ourselves.

They climbed the forbidden hill outside Babylon and ransacked Mr. Hussein's enormous stone palace.

The first stone palace (still preserved) was completed in 1714 for Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, first governor of the city.

Boxed into a corner of some cold stone palace, he is tensely flexed for any hostile action.

The first Winter Palace was constructed in 1708 for Peter I. Three years later the small wooden building was replaced by a stone palace.

A group of yeshiva students appeared, walking in the direction of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a two-thousand-year-old stone palace.

Nine hundred years ago, at a site on a high plateau north of the Limpopo River called Great Zimbabwe, Shona kings built stone palaces where… LETTER FROM ZIMBABWE about Pres.

And as wealth grew, a social pecking order followed, with a powerful aristocracy living in stone palaces and their serfs occupying wooden huts.

Even the physical city defied logic: a wooden settlement perched on piles in a swampy lagoon had turned into the densest urban area in Europe, its brick bell towers jostling for airspace, its stone palaces squatting on reclaimed land.

The center of town is anchored by two historically relevant neighborhoods: the ancient Parte Vieja, where a maze of cobblestone lanes winds past medieval stone palaces and traditional Basque wood-beamed houses; and the fishermen's village known as the Marina, where old men congregate on benches along San Pedro Kalea, a tree-lined street packed with lively pintxo bars.

Nine hundred years ago, at a site on a high plateau north of the Limpopo River called Great Zimbabwe, Shona kings built stone palaces where they lived in splendid isolation from their subjects, with absolute authority over their means to sustain life — cattle herds, land, and the gold that came out of the earth.