Other mosaics, fountains and hypocausts came to light, and room after room as the palatial villa was uncovered. |
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But this fine basin has not been bought for one of the region's stately homes or the palatial residence of a multi-millionaire. |
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The mausoleum is part of a vast complex with a main gateway, garden, mosque, guesthouse and several other palatial buildings. |
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Although I moaned, my bedsit was palatial compared with those of most of my friends, who lived in pokey, badly partitioned flats in Rathmines. |
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Alone and friendless in the bowels of one of his many palatial hideouts he must still, surely, nurse his grandiose ambitions. |
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He owns a palatial Moorish villa on Spain's ritzy Costa del Sol and a ski chalet in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. |
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He has a palatial house in a smart part of London and a bolthole in Hertfordshire. |
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A section of the palatial building where the family lives is believed to be haunted by a ghost. |
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And it means living in palatial houses with exquisite tile, granite or marble flooring and owning plush cars. |
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The road even links that palatial governor's mansion to the even more majestic river. |
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He also owns a palatial home in Srinagar, apart from numerous apartments in choice New Delhi location. |
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He didn't foresee the palatial palaces of today where the punter can see live racing. |
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Already newfangled buildings and palatial houses mimicking every form of modern architecture have come up on former farmlands. |
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The larger community of participants presumably used clay kylikes of the sort stored in the palatial pantries. |
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Indeed, taxi drivers take tourists from airport to city centre via the riverside building site out of which the palatial new house is rising. |
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Any clear linkage to the power and prestige of the central palatial authority would have conferred distinction. |
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Fancy turning your humble terrace into a palatial Georgian town house, or permanently hosting the Teddy Bears Picnic in your daughter's bedroom? |
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This is a man with millions and four fancy cars standing outside his palatial home! |
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He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter. |
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Bieito's setting is a palatial private bar furnished with black leather chairs and an opulent drinks table. |
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With her, he sealed himself away in palatial residences, letting the people see him mainly through stagey televised ceremonials. |
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This beautiful and newly renovated hotel was the palatial home of a merchant who in 1898 gambled the house away in a game of cards. |
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It opens with lush images of the palatial school and grounds, then enters the rarefied world within. |
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He offers Brandon a big salary increase and a palatial apartment if he will re-locate and work for him. |
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Architectural elements of this kind were used to decorate the façades of palatial buildings. |
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Whether it is related to the Ayyubid palatial residence is yet to be established, as important excavations of the site are still underway. |
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Five years ago, Philips Consumer Electronics ' engineering staff in Knoxville, Tennessee, used to have palatial cubes measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet. |
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Having left families behind in their native land, it was customary for the Chettiars to make periodic visits home to preserve family ties, and to build palatial homes. |
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Ledley King luxuriated in the supposition of a palatial footballing future. |
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Built a year ago, this Resort displays strikingly elegant Canadian palatial style architecture. |
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Gone are the palatial apartments, ideological rigidity, and red Prada slippers. |
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The banister, panelling and large, one-piece steps made from polished jasper in various colours give a real palatial air to the structure. |
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By the time their relationship was heading toward its end, Carey would call the palatial estate Sing Sing, after the prison. |
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He is said to be quiet and contemplative, a strict vegetarian who spends most of his time in his palatial mansion in Kingston. |
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Explore the colonial mansions of Elizabeth Bay and Vaucluse Houses or catch a performance in the palatial State Theatre. |
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The Mexican aristocracy and the nouveau riche have bought up most of the sites along the waterfront, where they have created palatial architect-designed homes. |
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Sprawling estates could still be permitted at the city's edge, for those who maintain that children cannot be raised without a palatial rumpus room and a hills hoist. |
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The palatial swagger of Vanbrugh's Castle Howard is suggestive of its patron's pride in the lineage of the Howard family and its place in history. |
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My family moved, when I was a girl of about 9 years old or so, from a small Johannesburg miner's house into a palatial mansion in a more salubrious suburb. |
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Domed ceilings, Georgian columns and plunging chandeliers exude palatial grandeur, an impression enhanced by the amount of jewellery paraded by Glasgow's glitterati. |
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He has since acquired his own palatial house within the exclusive resort. |
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He spent millions on his art collection, yachts, and palatial homes, including a castle in Wales, reining in only when his media empire was threatened with bankruptcy. |
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Finally, this is all set in the most astonishingly beautiful never-never land of palatial bourgeois interiors of great beauty, but cold as death and utterly unlivable. |
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Back in town, among the most distinctive digs are the Hotel Sofitel Central, a palatial, seafront pavilion of louvres, punkah fans and armies of gardeners. |
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Numismatic evidence also supports the attribution of these palatial complexes to Harun al-Rashid. |
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The water cistern on the Amman Citadel lies to the east of the Umayyad palatial complex. |
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Fine examples are the Arruzafa gardens on the banks of the Guadalquivir in Seville and the gardens at the palatial city of Madinat al-Zahra. |
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A handful of entrants had the idea of building two palatial edifices along this new avenue: these are now the Grand and Petit Palais. |
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Click here to listen That's largely because it sounds extraordinary: three-dimensional, palatial. |
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When his friend offers a palatial haunted house close to his workplace totally free of cost to stay, he clinches the offer without a second thought. |
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I was expecting his residence to be of palatial proportions. |
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The second level, topped with a twin-lobed arch in brick with an alfiz panel and resting on stone columns, make up the structure, which is entirely in keeping with its palatial setting. |
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In the northeast corner of the kasbah, the old palatial area, whose current form is the result of later building work, is now home to a museum and a centre of Andalusian studies. |
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Herod's palace at Caesarea Maritima preserved its palatial function as the official residence of the Roman procurators and governors of Judaea. |
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The lodgings were renovated and elaborated during the 1220s and 1230s, becoming comparable with other palatial residences such as Windsor Castle. |
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Most of the work was focused on the palatial buildings of the innermost ward. |
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You can, if you're lucky, spot the current Maharana driving a golf cart around his palatial streets, his spectacular beard slung under his chin like a white nosebag. |
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Vannozza lived in the Palace of a late Cardinal, or in a large, palatial villa. |
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On the foundations of the former palace, and within some of its surviving outer walls, a three-story palatial structure with a strict east-west alignment arose. |
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As a result, England now has a palatial home for a mediocre team. |
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I will not relaunch that debate, but anyone looking at this splendid Chamber and the palatial public spaces of this building would not believe the cramped conditions in which a backbench MEP works. |
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These were re-used during the Umayyad reconstruction when the castle was decorated with carved stucco, frescoes and mosaics, thus transforming it into a palatial residence. |
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You can also see what's playing at the palatial State Theatre. |
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This new club was built on palatial lines, the design being based on the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, and its Saloon in particular is regarded as the finest of all London's clubs. |
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At the center was the political node of the Imperial City, and at the center of this was the Forbidden City, the palatial residence of the emperor and his family. |
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We would all like to live in a palatial estate with a dozen bedrooms and as many bathrooms. Having champagne taste on a beer budget is nothing new. However, be realistic. |
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Tristan spent the first two months of his life in the home of the illegal adoption agent, Reta, before going to live with the Dowses in their palatial home in PondokIndah. |
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The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture. |
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