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Example sentences for "mansions"

Lexicographically close words:
manse; manservant; manses; mansi; mansion; mansit; manslaughter; manslaughters; manslayer; manslayers
  1. The traveler cannot see the mansions of the rich, because they are hidden in glorious parks and protected by high walls.

  2. The service for the burial of the dead was then performed; and amidst the dismal wail of the monks, the prayers ascended for the departed spirit, that it might be received into the mansions of the blessed.

  3. You see his portraits in the papers; you hear of his mansions and his motor-cars, his yachts and his splendid entertainments; and you would never dream that he is the most unhappy man in Canada.

  4. At Olive's special choice, her husband had purchased one of the mansions and had it re-decorated for her in modern style.

  5. At eighty-two his breath resigned, To meet the fate of all mankind; The third of May his soul took flight To mansions of eternal light.

  6. On both sides of the first short passage were two small apartments, such as are often used in London mansions for the purposes of cloak-rooms.

  7. We went to the mansions where he said he lived.

  8. It is the brink of a high hill; the Trent wriggles through at the foot; Litchfield and twenty other churches and mansions decorate the view.

  9. Its lanes are packed with the decaying mansions of the long-departed courtiers, and dominated by the huge ruined castle which was the home of the warrior kings.

  10. The main streets of the city are overshadowed by several fine Solares, the mansions of the old hidalgos, and, beside all its churches and monasteries, the town boasts an attractive Guildhall.

  11. Smart, well-groomed, busy cities with commodious mansions and boulevards may be found (by such as have need of them) within easier distances than this.

  12. In the hotel palaces, as well as in the private mansions along Fifth Avenue and Riverside Drive, all their outward splendor does not alter the simplicity and honesty of their character.

  13. She lives in one of the great mansions along Fifth Avenue, and the very appearance of her butler is a guaranty of riches and respectability.

  14. They ransacked the country and purchased from temples, mansions and farmhouses, old manuscripts and books, and forming libraries began anew the study of ancient language and history.

  15. Gone, without a solitary exception, gone to the silent mansions of the dead.

  16. How charming are the old mansions with their profusion of trees, all combining to make Warwick a most inviting place.

  17. The better class of houses were like the first-class three-story brick mansions at Salem and Newburyport, making one feel at home.

  18. The buildings present an appearance of modernized antiquity, being interspersed with mansions of the Scottish Nobles.

  19. There are hills, amphitheatre like, on all sides; and on those adjoining the city proper are the fine grounds and mansions of the merchants and wealthier families.

  20. The centres of population are around outside the business portion, and the mansions exhibit more thoroughness of construction than fancy in decoration.

  21. The quaintness discovered in the narrow streets and the ancient buildings made it a second Chester; but we thought we saw in the mansions more of stateliness, costliness, and evidences of a substantial English aristocracy.

  22. Fortunately some of the mansions of colonial Virginia have survived the ravages of time, fires, and wars, to bear witness to the charm and dignity of the plantation life of two centuries ago.

  23. The mansions were furnished with tables, chairs, bookcases by the English masters; on the tables were pitchers, goblets, and candlesticks by English silversmiths.

  24. When my warfare shall be ended, to its mansions lead thou me; Grant me, with its happy inmates, sharer of thy gifts to be!

  25. And in the back gardens of the houses themselves (for some of the old mansions yet have gardens, entered occasionally from side streets by mysterious Jekyll and Hyde doorways) it is the same.

  26. East of St. James's Park are the stately Government Offices, and south is Birdcage Walk, overlooked by the pretty hanging gardens and balconies that adorn the mansions of picturesque Queen Anne's Gate.

  27. Many of the splendid old mansions of Stuart times have, indeed, gone; yet in some instances they have risen again from their ashes to new spheres of interest.

  28. I fear that the dwellers in the new mansions will read little of the old traditions of the site"!

  29. Georgian spaciousness in the old mansions of Bedford Square?

  30. Some of London's finest mansions are now to be found in this Knightsbridge Road.

  31. It also tends to explain why most of the noble mansions still extant from the time of which we speak, instead of a staircase, have a gradual ascent of bricks, generally leading to a hall of large dimensions.

  32. Thus the telegram from Oxford and Cambridge Mansions came into his hands at about twelve o'clock.

  33. He wished Sibyl to live in her own way, grudged her nothing, admired and cherished her with undiminished fervour; but in Oxford and Cambridge Mansions it cost him a great effort to pretend to be at home.

  34. Tell me now, ye Muses that inhabit mansions in Olympus, who was he that first encountered Agamemnon, whether of the Trojans themselves, or of their allies renowned?

  35. Tell me now, ye Muses that have mansions in Olympus, how first fire fell on the ships of the Achaians.

  36. Three strides he made, and with the fourth he reached his goal, even Aigae, and there was his famous palace in the deeps of the mere, his glistering golden mansions builded, imperishable for ever.

  37. I know that through my error they have been lost to me, and will be until they change to the spirit, after which we will meet again in one of the waiting Mansions of the Great Beyond.

  38. Carry it right up," she said to the porter at the mansions in St. James's when she arrived there.

  39. These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron, The mansions.

  40. Numbers Chapter 33 The mansions or journeys of the children of Israel towards the land of promise.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mansions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.