Ghastly chateaus stare on you by the wayside; disroofed, diswindowed; which the National House-broker is peeling for the lead and ashlar.
We pass an occasional bare-looking village and one or two ruined chateaus and we remark on the scarcity of ruins in France, so far as we have seen it, as compared with England.
The country about Tours has more to attract the tourist than the city itself, for within a few miles are the famous chateaus which have been exploited by literary travelers of all degrees.
The story of the French chateaus has filled many a good-sized volume and may well occupy a separate chapter in this rather hurried record.
The windows are numerous, but even in the best chateaus there is strange neglect as to the broken glass; sometimes they are left as broken, but more frequently patched with paper, coloured silk, or even stuffed with linen.
We passed several chateaus in meadows and lawns by the road side: some of them were altogether in the ancient style, and so truly characteristic of the French country house, as to merit a more detailed description.
Happily for you, my dear Maxime, you have reduced the number of your chateaus and estates.
We must make up our minds to some course; the bourgeoisie are rising round us like a flood; it is almost affable in them to buy our chateaus and estates when they might guillotine us as in 1793, and get them for nothing.
Made all sail, held our wind, and gradually eat him out of the wind, as well as head-reached on him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chateaus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
