Palaces

Examples

• I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Beneath the crimes and disorders of the palaces, the life of the city and country ran a similar course. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Few palaces exist in any city that are so exquisite in design, so rich in art, so costly in material, so graceful, so beautiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Our habitations were palaces our food was ready stored in granaries--there was no need of labour, no inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Superb and the City of Palaces are names which Genoa has held for centuries. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy mountains, the palaces of nature, were not changed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Joseph II, who was Emperor from 1765-92, succeeded to her palaces in 1780. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If there ever was a restaurant there, it must have been in Smyrna's palmy days, when the hills were covered with palaces. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thy shrines, thy palaces, thy city walls have fallen, and fallen too art thou. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But, instead of bakers'-queues, why not to Aristocrats' palaces, the root of the matter? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then too we made discoveries of lovely scenes or gay palaces, whither in the evening we all proceeded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The huge palaces of Genoa are each supposed to be occupied by one family, but they could accommodate a hundred, I should think. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the morning we rode in the adjoining country, or wandered through the palaces, in search of pictures or antiquities. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It may be interesting to note in familiar terms what these enormous traveling palaces comprehend in equipment. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had palaces, and he had--' 'Hospitals,' interposed Maggy, still nursing her knees. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Helen