Then they crossed the sombre, lamp-reflecting Seine, and soon afterwards the two taxis stopped at a vast black door in a very wide street of serried palatial façades that were continually shaken by the rushing tumult of electric cars.
She had to glance at all the shops, though none of them was open except the dairy-shop; and in the shopping street, which had a sunrise at one end and the railway station at the other, she lit on the new palatial garage.
He spared nothing to make the place palatial in every respect.
He has attempted to change several houses on Fifth Avenue into palatial stables, and has only been prevented by the city authorities.
At ten o'clock that night, the palatial residence of Cornelius Rockham was in a state of complete police blockade.
So spoke the woman, and within a month she walked out of the palatial establishment to revert to her humble life.
In those days the exhibition was in the Baker Street Bazaar, and if the premises were not as roomy as the present palatial building, they certainly appeared to me “snugger.
Jinks’ Club was not located in a palatial mansion, nor did it even present the modest exterior of the local Union Club; as a fact, it was limited in its dimensions, and consisted of two rooms in an unpretentious house in Ship Street.
This ancient institution must not be confused with the palatialestablishments known as Lockhart’s.
Here, before a palatial mansion, the cart pulled up, and the load was shot on to the steps.
In this way he also was domiciled up two pairs of stairs in the palatial residence in the Ludwigs Strasse.
Ernest Heine and his wife inhabited a portion of one of those new palatial residences at the further end of the Ludwigs Strasse; but not because they thus lived must it be considered that they were palatial people.
They were not palatial people, but the very reverse, living in homely guise, pursuing homely duties, and satisfied with homely pleasures.
The interior decorations were neat and pretty, but had nothing of the palatial and aesthetic gorgeousness which educates us in these later ages.
In spite of its resounding name, our new dwelling had not a palatial aspect.
The declining days of Sir Walter were not without sickness and sorrow, for he had spent all the money obtained by the sale of his books on this palatial mansion.
It was quite a palatial model and much more handsome than its supposed original was ever likely to have been.
On arriving at York, Grenier secured a palatial suite at the Station Hotel, entering his name in the register as "Philip Anson.
The palatial nature of the apartments took him by surprise when he reached them.
His presence in that room meant penal servitude for life for Victor Grenier, a prison cell instead of palatial chambers, bread and skilly in place of Carlton luncheons.
And the curious thing was that he felt in no sense awed by the possession of thousands of pounds and the tenancy of palatial chambers in a great hotel.
The marble work, which forms the most distinguishing characteristic of this palatial abode, receives its entire shape and finish in the basement and first floor of the building.
Chamberlain's is, perhaps, the most palatial and the best conducted establishment in the country.
The public buildings will compare favorably with any in the world, and there is no city on the globe that can boast so many palatial warehouses and stores.
The establishment is palatial in its character, and is conducted with the most rigid outward propriety.
Previous to his purchase of the Grand Opera House, Mr. Fisk was an unknown man, but the ownership of this palatialestablishment gave him an opportunity of enjoying the notoriety he coveted.
On the southwest corner of Prince street is Ball & Black's palatialjewelry store.
But at least he is rich enough to own a gorgeous house in town and a sumptuous seat in the country, a stud of horses, and a set of palatial stables.
If the houses are palatial without, they are even more so within.
Stewart, who erected on its site his palatial wholesale store, which extends along Broadway to Chambers street.
From Madison Square to its lower end, the avenue is rapidly giving way to business, and its palatial residences are being converted into equally fine stores.
They built them palatial residences in the city, and their magnificent equipages were the talk of the town.
This, of course, was before the great additions and alterations were made to and at Chatsworth, and therefore must not be taken to refer to that palatial residence as it now stands.
They are, however, such as one usually meets in thesepalatial residences, and are thrown into comparative obscurity by the glorious assemblage of Vandykes.
It consists of a straight avenue of dimensions commensurate with the palatial residence to which it leads.
He had four children, and he erected ("built" was too small a word) a palatial house in a fashionable street.
There were twenty-five rooms in the palatial house, giving to each servant five to be kept in the spick-and-span array demanded by the master's position and taste.
Well, then, first of all, our palatial country residence must face directly away from the sea,” said Cal.
When the folding doors are opened there is disclosed in the centre of the cabinet a tiny but palatial interior.
Facing the Maidan for a couple of miles is the Chowringhee, one of the famous streets of the world, once a row of palatial residences, but now given up almost entirely to hotels, clubs and shops.
Conceived on a palatial scale, painted or carved, or incrusted with marble and pietra dura, they were intended for the adornment of galleries and lofty bare apartments where they were not felt to be overpowering.
The Persian palatial buildings, of which traces remain, are four in number.
If the more massive of the Persepolitan buildings are to be ascribed to him, we must regard him as haying fixed the whole plan and arrangement which was afterwards followed in all Persian palatial edifices.
The group of palatial museums at South Kensington tempt the stranger, whatever his tastes or culture, to spend a year there, and each year so spent will need another to do justice to their marvellous contents.
And, O great king, that palatial compound, filled with innumerable monarchs that came there as spectators, looked exceedingly handsome like the cloudless firmament with stars.
And Maya having constructed such a palatial hall within fourteen months, reported its completion unto Yudhishthira.
We drew up at the door of a palatial establishment--the "posh" hotel of Los Angeles.
I had left my palatial sky-scraper hotel only fifteen minutes before.
Occasionally would be seen a great block of buildings, unpretentious in architecture but palatial in extent.
Indeed, it was surprising what palatial garages were to be found everywhere.
Leo made his friends, the Harrises, most welcome at his unexpected and palatial home.
She was now journeying to her palatial home on the Pacific Coast.
Most from the Madeleine to the July Column are flanked with massive limestone buildings, palatial mansions, and glittering shops, the architecture of which is often uniform, and balconies are frequently built with each story.
Instead of palatial edifices we have low native huts, while the people we meet have the bronzed hue of Africans.
Time and again he would curl up in the palatial Drawing-Room at one end of the Sleeper and dream that six Life-Long Friends in deep Black were whispering among the Floral Tributes and putting on Cotton Gloves.
He drove Honey to the train, then he tore back to the palatial Home, chucked a few Props into a Suit Case and headed for the Grand Central.
The drawing-room of the mansion is palatial in dimensions and furnishing.
Here were six rooms of palatial size, with carpets, drapery, and furniture of a splendour quite appalling to Montague.
And there was another, a great traction king, who kept mistresses in Chicago and Paris and London, as well as in New York; he had one just around the corner from his palatial home, and had an underground passage leading to it.
They boarded thepalatial private car, and were introduced to a number of other guests.
Conspicuous on the left-hand side were the palatial offices of the Blue Star Line.
