Mansions
[mænʃənz]
Examples
- I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These mansions are to be had either unfurnished, where, if you have credit with Messrs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the captain's cottage she could suggest mansions she had never seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Why are we now in the mansions of the rich and great, my friends? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In--my --Father's--house--are--many--mansions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As in all Southern mansions hospitality was rife at the Greenes’, and it happened that one evening a number of gentlemen were gathered there who had fought under the General in the Revolution. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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