| 单词 | stately home |
| 例句 | She even found something suitable for Lady Constance: a small volume about the stately homes of England that was mostly pictures. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the distance, perched on a low rise, was an elegant, stately home with long windows and multiple chimneys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z This area contained some of the city’s largest, most stately homes, but the fire treated them with the same disdain it did the humblest wooden cottages on De Koven Street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In true Stillman style, Love & Friendship is a weightless and witty affair, pitting hapless, stuffed-shirted gentlemen against wily, capricious women as it skips between stately homes. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible plumbing. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z At the end of the episode, affable Nigel Pargetter tumbled to his death while trying to remove a Happy New Year banner from the roof of his stately home, Lower Loxley Hall. On-air drama as radio soap 'The Archers' turns 60 2011-01-04T16:29:08Z Spending your weekend walking quietly round a stately home! Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z Thefts from stately homes have been increasing lately, said James Ratcliffe, the director of recoveries at the Art Loss Register, a nonprofit organization that runs a database of stolen art. What Happened to the Stolen Gold Toilet? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Less than a mile away was affluent Sherman Oaks, with its stately homes and two-car garages, where Khan-Cullors attended a gifted program in middle school. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Buchan, herself a distinguished horticulturist, is particularly sensitive to the losses this vast agricultural push entailed, particularly for the nurserymen and stately home owners who stoically destroyed acres of valuable, cherished and often irreplaceable plants. A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan – review 2013-04-06T16:00:01Z The show that made Britain’s stately homes so familiar to millions of American viewers also demonstrated how difficult it was — and remains — to finance them. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And our places which offer the chance to stay within a historic house or in the grounds of a stately home are proving popular with ‘Downton’ fans.” Cultured Traveler : Echoes of ‘Downton Abbey’ on Vacation in England 2014-04-15T20:58:55Z Blank Workshop and Moon Wiring Club is where all of Hodgson's enthusiasms and obsessions converge: "Electronic music, Art Deco, and the England of teashops, stately homes, ruined buildings and weird magic." Moon Wiring Club: music for children, by children 2010-11-24T14:04:00Z Or is it just really liking footage of a stately home? Just when Lady Edith thought her luck couldn't get any worse… 2012-11-11T00:06:14Z Or those few stately homes where admission is rare and only granted to members of heritage or arts clubs. iverpool mansion opens for first time in 40 years - to encourage more people to read 2013-03-27T12:03:56Z One week the team travelled from London to a stately home in the countryside for an off-site meeting, a company tradition designed to build camaraderie. Lord Browne: testimonies on life inside the glass closet 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Not helmets from suits of armour in stately homes but helmets on screaming teenagers who are rafting down rapids, or on cavers, or climbers, or athletic mountain bikers. Discover white-knuckle England with this handy holiday guide… 2013-04-27T23:05:40Z They divide their time between chateaus, posh London flats and stately homes in Venice. ‘The Book of Life,’ the final volume of Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy When I first started back in the mid-1990s, we would do quite a few concerts in stately homes and stuff, and the air temperature was probably three or four degrees warmer in the summer. Music festival season: there will be mud 2013-06-18T17:58:53Z The first to Haworth, for the Brontë tourism, the second to Castle Howard, the stately home where the film and famous TV series was set. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z There is also an egg box from the farm shop she started, believed to be the first in any British stately home, where she often worked. Chatsworth house gets a ?14m makeover 2010-04-25T19:52:00Z Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Looking at this year's Emmy nominations, it's hard not to crack the old joke about Americans being rendered powerless by the sight of a stately home. Emmy nominations 2012: Downton dominates, despite its flaws 2012-07-19T16:04:00Z The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire have a tradition of displaying contemporary art at their Derbyshire stately home. Chatsworth House hosts high heels 2014-03-13T11:54:10Z The school was dreamed up by Mulligan, a teacher himself, and a colleague on a stroll one day, passing a tumbledown stately home. Andy Mulligan's school rules 2011-08-05T15:34:00Z It's not easy forging a future as the heir to one of Britain's grandest stately homes when your present is up to its cravat in the past. The Aristocrats: inside the lives of the irredeemably posh 2012-11-16T13:00:00Z "Because it was a stately home we couldn't set fire to it - the owners didn't want smoke damage to their house." Less misery for new Downton Abbey 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Venues run from Beckett's hilltop Portora Royal School to the site of the bomb blast that killed 11 people, and extends to stately homes and lakes in the countryside. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z One stately home looks much the same as another. How Downton Abbey helped to rescue Highclere Castle from ruin 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z It is the idea that council housing could be as grand as a castle or stately home. Sheffield's streets in the sky 2011-08-20T23:04:08Z This was also the prospect for Asahel Curtis’ “then,” recorded early in the 20th century when this First Hill neighborhood was still known for its stately homes, big incomes and good manners. The birth of Swedish Hospital 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Many of these stately homes, as the English call them, were built in Victorian times by ridiculously rich nobles and aristocrats. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z At the heart of Glenstone’s idyll is not a stately home but the Pavilions, a cluster of towering concrete cubes. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z As a child growing up working class on the Jersey Shore, Myron gawked at the stately homes in some of his hometown’s more affluent neighbors, like Marven Gardens to the south. Myron Goldfinger, 90, Architect of Monumental Modernist Homes, Dies 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The stately home offered a "no grudge amnesty" for their return; the suspicion is that magpies got the lot. Masters of miniature 2011-02-27T00:04:03Z Pack a picnic for this very civilised afternoon in the leafy grounds of a Jacobean stately home, Hatfield House. Summer holidays 2013: outdoor events in the UK 2013-07-04T10:07:00Z Good use is made of the area's many stately homes. Scotland's best classical music festivals 2012-05-25T21:45:07Z Addressed to their patriarch, this elegiac meditation recounts the family’s tragic history and tenderly evokes their stately home filled with objets d’art, now a museum. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z They deployed not only looks and flair but also an organizational dynamism that whipped the stately homes and their owners into shape. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z So it is to some extent a hidden art, preserved behind veils or between the covers of portfolios and albums, languishing under wraps in stately homes and museums. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z We realised that when children go around stately homes all they ever want to know about is how the people went to the loo and how they died. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z Nobody likes the one percent, so why can't we stop reading novels about their stately homes? The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z Imagine staying in a castle, a stately home, a gardener’s cottage or a lighthouse in England. Disney World? Not Again. Four Surprising Alternatives for Your Next Family Trip. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But it's not all been sweetness and light at the stately home. Daisy scrubs up for Christmas Downton 2013-12-19T08:22:32Z To this end they attend a finishing school, Hereford Hall, which of course isn't even a real school, more a makeshift Stepford Wives academy from the 1950s set up in a stately home. Ladette To Lady needs to forget some of its reality TV etiquette 2010-07-21T12:28:00Z Farrow & Ball, purveyor of paint to stately homes and a favorite of decorators, is scheduled to open a retail showroom Sept. 13 at 5221 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Farrow & Ball paint brings its upscale British paint line to Friendship Heights Three tours geared for Manchester Airport arrivals focus on castles, cathedrals, gardens and stately homes in the north of England. In Transit Blog: British Cities Suggest Themed Trips 2011-12-14T21:46:07Z Ai, who is restricted from leaving China, helped install more than 50 artworks with a computer model of the stately home in Oxfordshire. Ai Weiwei creates Blenheim art show 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Applications from stately home owners should also be helped by another priority outlined by the HLF for its next five years: help for buildings judged at risk. Stately home owners to gain access to lottery money 2012-07-05T17:41:55Z On Sunday, we drove out into the country and walked through a stately home garden and ate scones in the tea room. Time to get out my ‘sex shirt’ … tonight might be the night 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s home town, is 45 minutes away, and there are several gardens and historic stately homes within easy driving distance. In the Cotswolds, a weekend on a farm B&B Black doctors, lawyers, teachers, and other professionals lived in the stately homes, some of which were teetering on dilapidation just before we moved out. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z These days, the most popular stately home to visit is Highclere Castle, where much of the television series “Downton Abbey” was filmed. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Kite Festival And Teddy Bears' Picnic, nr Leeds, Sat & Sun Displays and kite-making classes in the grounds of a grand stately home. This week's new events 2013-05-18T05:00:17Z I think of all those stately homes I visited, and the attention to detail and design, the grandeur of it. Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z His settings were often the stately homes of the well-to-do. A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Yet for all the romance associated with such stately homes, these buildings present a number of idiosyncrasies and challenges. Annabelle Selldorf Renovates a New York Townhouse 2013-12-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Parr made a living as an artist for F. R. Leach & Sons, which decorated churches and stately homes based on designs by luminaries like William Morris and the architect George Bodley. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Does a fetid air, for me, infuse the whole – the suffocatingly deferential class system, the airless orchid house of its quest-for-grace storyline, the rottenness at the heart of the English stately home Arcadia? Your next box set: Brideshead Revisited 2012-08-30T15:01:00Z Do you get free entry to stately homes? Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off' 2012-11-11T00:05:25Z Harrison, who wrote the hits Something, Here Comes the Sun, and My Sweet Lord, moved to the town in the 1970s when he bought a large stately home and saved it from demolition. Beatles' statue campaign halted 2013-01-12T13:06:22Z Do an abridged version, peppering the walk with queries that have the children visualizing what life was like for the inhabitants of these stately homes. Rowdy and Bawdy, New Orleans is a Party for Families Too 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “The first time I took psilocybin — 10 pills — was in the fireside social setting in Cambridge,” Ginsberg wrote in a blow-by-blow description of his experience taking synthesized hallucinogenic mushrooms at Leary’s stately home. New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary?s Papers 2011-06-15T23:40:29Z The trailer offers a glimpse of Ben-Hur’s journey from a stately home in Jerusalem to enslavement on a Roman battleship to the moment of his glory in the arena. Watch Jack Huston Recreate an Epic Chariot Race in the Trailer for Ben-Hur 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z "We wouldn't think of demolishing Georgian stately homes, squares and terraces where the upper class lived," said Nick Black, a historian who is one of the academics and local residents battling to save the structure. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z Then she took me to her granny’s home, which turned out to be a stately home in the country with a whole floor of clothes from the 1950s. The Best-Kept Fashion Secret of ‘The Crown’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z They were perhaps wondering why they had paid so much money to lounge about in the grounds of a stately home. Magic Loungeabout festival ? review 2011-08-01T17:36:30Z He identifies himself as having moved class – thanks to having such things as a job, no stately home, and a non-posh wife – into a place somewhere between Rockabilly and Wood-Burning Stover. Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System by Harry Wallop – review 2013-01-18T09:01:01Z On travels to Amsterdam, Dresden and the English and Irish countrysides, he invites us into stately homes and private residences, whose stuffed salons and dining rooms teeter just on the edge of chaos. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z From the wharf in Onancock, a hamlet on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the Onancock Creek courses for about five miles past stately homes and black water coves to empty in the Chesapeake Bay. A Father-Son Fishing Trip on the Chesapeake Bay 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The show's tour takes in some stately homes in west Wales, and they'll make a richly sympathetic backdrop. Miss Julie 2010-06-18T21:30:00Z One of my favorite stately homes is Stanway House, in the Cotswolds. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Up next was an overnight train trip two hours north of London to Chatsworth House, probably the premier stately home in all of England. My trip to London was canceled, so I took it on YouTube instead 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z It was catalogued in a stately home collection as a copy, but identified by the then curator and now director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, as the genuine article. National Gallery: an art exhibition where nothing is what it seems 2010-06-29T16:06:00Z But you couldn't call it a stately home or a manor house. More than a home 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z In 1914, a staff of twenty-three tended the grounds of the Heligan estate, an unremarkable stately home in Cornwall, at the southwestern tip of England. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z One stately home set a single lit candle in its picture window; at another, fairy lights twinkled through two front-yard trees. Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The British artist Damien Hirst will exhibit new works from his series of spot paintings at a stately home in Britain. New Damien Hirst Paintings to Be Exhibited in Stately British Home 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Visiting these stately homes provides more than just a chance to ogle some big, fanciful estates. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z “The Cornfield,” by Jacob van Ruisdael, was stolen three times from a stately home south of Dublin, including once by the Irish Republican Army. The Mystery of the Painting Thieves Love 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The neighbours are selling up their own stately home, while Lord Grantham seeks to cut back on servants after declaring that under-butlers are no longer affordable. How Downton Abbey helped to rescue Highclere Castle from ruin 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z For a similarly grand experience, visit Blenheim Palace, 30 minutes from Oxford — my pick for the number-one stately home in Britain. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Watching “Downton Abbey,” a thoroughly enjoyable British series on about masters and servants in a stately home on the eve of World War I, is a bit like buying a trunk at Restoration Hardware. Television Review: Sincerest Forms of Flattery for British Shows 2011-01-06T23:10:24Z The designer admired Savile Row suits and hosted fashion shows in stately homes like Blenheim Palace. Dior to recast blockbuster retrospective for London's V&A 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “Strange Interlude” has been handsomely designed by Soutra Gilmour, with a set that revolves to reveal increasingly stately homes as the years twirl by. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z The auction house said the Spencer family hoped to sell off a variety of valuables to invest the funds raised and protect the long-term future of the stately home. Rare items from home of UK's Diana to be auctioned 2010-03-29T20:01:00Z On the surface, Christie's novels resemble a nostalgic retreat to the pastoral and to the English stately home. Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Costumers have worked their fingers to the bone; location scouts have secured the keys to some impressive stately homes. Review: 'The Buccaneers' may be more 'Bridgerton' than Edith Wharton 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z As it was plumbed in at the time, the heist caused flooding and damage to the 18th Century stately home in Woodstock. Four men charged over Blenheim Palace gold toilet theft 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The rotation through big annual events and stately homes has stayed much the same. King Charles: What sort of monarch has he been is his first year? 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The merchant owned an estate in North Wales, which incorporated the stately home Hafodunos Hall. Antoinette Sandbach: Ex-MP asks to be removed from slavery research 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z King Charles III is hoping to build a large new greenhouse at his stately home in Gloucestershire. King Charles plans new greenhouse for Highgrove 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The stately homes towered high above the bluff; quiet waves crashed along the shore. 'Hidden' no more: Coastal Commission OKs new public path to Malibu beach 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Supporters of the king also hail the work of his charities in Scotland, in particular at Dumfries House, a stately home near Cumnock in Ayrshire whose restoration he championed and helped to fund. King Charles coronation: Does Scotland want its kilted king? 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z All she knows is that her stately home in Chellanam, which withstood the test of time for nearly a century, is corroding and her granary is empty. Trouble looms for Indian grain that combats climate change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z One Australian paid about $23,000 for a stately home just 45 minutes from Tokyo. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z On this tony man-made island in Newport Beach, stately homes with street-facing patios are clustered together on avenues named after gemstones. Newport Beach battles a new breed of luxury party houses: fractional ownership 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z She is from a privileged background, having lived in a stately home growing up. Constance Marten and Mark Gordon arrest: Search for baby continues 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Johnny Vegas is to open a glamping site at a stately home in Derbyshire. 'Why Johnny Vegas set up camp in our stately home' 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But days before the demolition, Mr Dewanjea and a group of artists paid tribute to the stately home: they held a public, two-day interactive art event inside the house. The young Indians saving crumbling ancestral homes 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Now, as they make a supersize comeback, Tiffany Skilling, who designed the Moss family home and specializes in historic renovations, sees the moment as a nod to the stately homes of the past. The kitchen gains an offstage partner 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Poor House Mountain is dotted with stately homes that belie the name. A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’ The drama takes place in the dead of winter in a converted stately home, complete with creaking floorboards and groaning joists, that had once belonged to the mother's aunt. Double dose of Tilda Swinton in ghostly Venice flick 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The stately home hopes it will bring an increase in trade to the small market town. 'Why Johnny Vegas set up camp in our stately home' 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z A stonemason working on the restoration of a famous stately home wants there to be more opportunities for women to learn about masonry work. The female stonemason saving a little piece of history 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Similar "ghost gardens" have also appeared at Longleat, a nearby stately home. In pictures: Drought in Europe exposes sunken ships, lost villages and ominous 'hunger stones' 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z At the time, the ruins of the stately home of Derwent Hall could also be seen. Ruins of 'lost church' exposed at Ladybower Reservoir 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Officers are looking for a naked man who approached a group of women at a North Yorkshire stately home. Newby Hall: Naked man approaches women at stately home 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Tickets for the show at the stately home were understood to have started from £79. Michael Buble fans angry at missing gig due to traffic chaos 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Where are the pearl-clutchers now, who balked at protesters with rainbow flags and candles marching past the stately homes of Supreme Court justices after the leaked decision? Perspective | Moms rallied when protesters brought mangled fetus photos to Md. school 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z A look Robbins is particularly proud of is the movie star moment when Myrna Dalgleish, complete with peroxide blond hair and red lipstick, first walks into the stately home. Something old, something new — the costumes of Downton Abbey 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z For more than 10 years, the suit reads, the “formerly stately home has sat conspicuously vacant: boarded up, overgrown, and with masonry degrading, the roof in a state of perpetual and visible decay.” D.C. attorney general sues vacant-property owner, alleging tax evasion 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z A bird's eye view of nesting herons taken by a drone at a stately home has revealed an unexpected number of nests, the National Trust said. Belton House: Bird's eye drone reveals more nesting herons than expected 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z An amendment to the law permitted ceremonies at other locations including landmarks, stately homes and dedicated wedding venues. Outdoor civil weddings and partnerships here to stay 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Driving past detritus that a swollen river had left in front of stately homes, he recalled the first time he saw a river overflow. After Brazil mudslides, grief and faith among the ruins 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Judging is now under way and winners will be announced at the festival held at the stately home on Saturday 14 May. Dalemain Marmalade Festival attracts peel creativity 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Earlier settlers built stately homes along its waterways. Brazil’s deadly mudslides reflect neglect, climate change 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z And the properties that were available were a far cry from the stately homes he envisioned. They rushed to buy in the pandemic. Here’s what they would change. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z An upcoming episode of “The Gilded Age” illustrates this idea by taking us to the Scott family’s stately home in Brooklyn, where Peggy and her parents are waited on by servants. How accurate is 'The Gilded Age's' history of New York's Black elite? We checked 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Built in 2006, the stately home spans nearly 10,000 square feet — but it’s still not his biggest Southern California home. Diddy sells his Toluca Lake mansion for $6.5 million 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z But it really shines during the holidays, and not just because of the illuminated streets and Christmas wreaths decorating stately homes. Five neighborhoods where you can shop local this holiday season 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Similarly, poems by Panya Banjoko reflect on the stately home's mahogany furniture, much of which is believed to have originated in Jamaica. Black Newstead: Artworks reveal Byron estate's black history 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z A gang broke into the 18th Century stately home and caused "significant damage and flooding" because the toilet was plumbed into the building. No sign of £4.8m golden toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace, two years on 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z On a gorgeous day in August 2012, Ms. Wood — a fund manager struggling through a rough quarter at AllianceBernstein — was struck by the silence inside her stately home in Wilton, Conn. God, Money, YOLO: How Cathie Wood Found Her Flock 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z These people were residents with as much claim to the neighborhood as the owners of the stately homes that line Degnan north of the plaza. Artist Noah Purifoy saw value in the discarded. What if L.A. didn't throw people away? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z So, in 1980, aged 11, he was sent to the grounds of a stately home in Hampshire. Infected blood: Parents and pupils reveal they were kept in dark at stricken school 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Under current laws, wedding ceremonies at approved premises such as hotels and stately homes need to be held in a room or other permanent structure. Outdoor civil weddings and partnerships get the go ahead 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z The stately home, known as the Riggs-Riley House, has had more than its share of presidential connections throughout the years. Famous names crowd history of D.C.’s Riggs-Riley House 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The remains of the large "stately home" and bath house were found on a site in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire. Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough 'potential world first' 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Civilian drone footage posted on social media showed rooftops cleaved away from stately homes, the winds destroying some while leaving others untouched. At least 5 dead as series of tornadoes strike Deep South 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He appeared at civic events, donated to Republican candidates and ensconced himself in an exclusive country club community northeast of Atlanta where he bought two stately homes, each valued at about $1 million. 2 Immigrant Paths: One Led to Wealth, the Other Ended in Death in Atlanta 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Damage to a Grade II* listed stately home caused by climate change is to be repaired after a grant was awarded. Knebworth House: 'Climate-change damage' to turret to be repaired 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z "Licensed venues" include places such as hotels and stately homes. Covid-19: Hunt for Brazilian variant, and extra money for vaccine rollout 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr Emerick said it was not clear what the building was used for but described it as a Roman version of a stately home, possibly owned by somebody of wealth and status. Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough 'potential world first' 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z At first glance, the stately home with green window shutters could belong to anyone. Do You Know Where the Vice President Lives? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z A collection of classical nude postcards was discovered hidden in an antique desk at a stately home. Nude postcards found at Temple Newsam House hidden in desk 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Staff an an English stately home have said it was a "privilege" to become the backdrop for one of most-streamed dramas ever made. 'Privilege' to be chosen by The Crown 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Old Metairie, their significantly white and Republican-leaning suburb of New Orleans, is a mix of modest and stately homes, with the Coneys’ two-story house wrapped in taupe siding on the upper end. Rooted in Faith, Representing a New Conservatism: Amy Coney Barrett’s Path to a Court Pick 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The National Trust report shows how estates and stately homes such as Clandon Park, Surrey, and Hare Hall in Cheshire were linked to wealth from plantations or the slave trade. National Trust details colonialism and slave links 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Douglass’s stately home, which sits high on a knoll, is where he spent the last 17 years of his life. Opinion | What would Frederick Douglass think of the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal? 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The statue is located on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, a boulevard of stately homes that also features several other Confederate monuments targeted for removal. Robert E. Lee statue becomes epicenter of protest movement 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Ditmas Park, a largely residential neighborhood in Flatbush, Brooklyn, is lined with stately homes, many of which are divided into multiple apartments. Words at the window: how people are connecting with hopeful messages 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z His profile was further enhanced as the owner of the popular stately home and safari park, Longleat House, complete with resident lions. Obituary: The Marquess of Bath 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Eddie went to a private school and lived in a stately home. Eddie Hearn: 'I can't say I don't enjoy the limelight' 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z But despite £8.5m being given by investors, the stately home, which was the birthplace of former prime minister Anthony Eden, remained derelict. Collapsed care home boss involved in US scam 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Officers and emergency medical responders converged on Dulos’s stately home in the wealthy Hartford suburb around noon Tuesday, and confusion ensued because Dulos’s attorney, Norm Pattis, and others initially said that he was dead. Special Operations ethical review blames lapses on combat culture 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Architect-to-the-stars Paul Williams designed the stately home, which draws the eye with a whitewashed brick exterior offset by black shutters. Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman’s former Westside manor lists for $6.75 million 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It evokes a quintessentially English image of lush green fields and grand stately homes and ends with the Queen's grandson taking a satisfying sip of fresh milk. Does a milk advert show Harry and Meghan's future? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z A vertorama is a vertical panorama, a photograph that sweeps from the ceiling to the floor and is particularly well suited to grand locations like cathedrals and stately homes. 'I want to show the world in a different way' 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The stately home is a World Heritage Site and is the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Sixth arrest made after golden toilet theft 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Every stately home, in every land, belongs to us too. Downton Abbey, like plantation houses, delivers fantasy over brute reality | Michael Henry Adams 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Two crooks grow so fond of an Englishwoman that they refuse to let her stately home be robbed. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Fans of the hit TV series Downton Abbey are to be given the opportunity to “live like the lord or lady of a stately home” and stay in the castle where the show was filmed. Live like a lord and lady: 'Downton Abbey' is listed on Airbnb 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Blenheim Palace's security measures "need to be challenged" after an 18-carat gold toilet was stolen from the stately home, its chief executive said. Security 'needs challenging' after toilet theft 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Its hounds are owned by the Duke of Rutland and kennelled at Belvoir Castle, a stately home in Leicestershire. Belvoir Hunt pays attack victims £48,500 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z “We spend a fortune on preserving all these old stately homes and gardens, and yet the world is going to hell in a handbasket and there’s not going to be anybody to appreciate it.” Special Report: A Cloudspotters' Guide to Climate Change 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z And weddings in stately homes where the guests play croquet, and a hog is roasted, and the bride’s waist is so waspish – and have the couple had their teeth bleached, because it seems so? I swore I’d never mention marriage again, but everyone deserves an Instagram wedding | Grace Dent 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Instead, he will stay at Winfield House, the stately home of U.S. As Trump’s state visit looms, Britain seems a reluctant host 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z She hadn’t been there for a while; the scenes set in the museum had been filmed at Holkham Hall, a stately home in Norfolk, with a replica of “The Souvenir” hanging on the wall. Joanna Hogg’s Self-Portrait of a Lady 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z At present the swaths of aristocrats we have occupying our historical stately homes are more of an impediment than a boon to tourism. By all means keep the Queen, but can we have our land back? | Phil McDuff 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z He also has a long way to go before he achieves his dream of restoring his ancestors' stately home. From Hollywood to Manchester to the comedy circuit 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z In Wytheville, a railroad town of stately homes and white-columned churches, the local newspaper returned to promoting tourism and a new hotel. The keeper of the secret 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Both have stately homes on the same street just a few minutes’ drive away. Even plumbers need software: How Glendale's ServiceTitan became a billion-dollar start-up 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The neighborhood, with sweeping views of the New York skyline, is full of stately homes going for as much as $4m, many with private driveways set behind gates. 'They don't bother nobody': the quiet presence of New York's mafia 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Money from the network was sent to the Prince's Charities Foundation to help restore Dumfries House, a stately home in Ayrshire. Charles link to Russian offshore network 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The money went towards the rescue of Dumfries House, a stately home in Ayrshire with a priceless collection of Chippendale furniture. Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Built in 1916, the stately home fits right in with the historic estates of Fremont Place. New champ sought for onetime home of Muhammad Ali | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Industrial-sized freezers are being deployed at a Scottish stately home to help rid the property of moths. Who you gonna call? Mothbusters! 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The quadruple murder nearly four years ago, in a stately home less than a mile from the vice president’s mansion, gripped the nation’s capital. ‘The most heinous crime’: Md. man sentenced to life in prison for 2015 murders of three members of a D.C. family and their housekeeper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It's like visiting a stately home, but you can actually lie on Queen Elizabeth's bed and light the fire in the grate. The secret life of a fantasy shopper 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The course proved fatal as the bomber clipped some trees on a large hill and crashed down in the grounds of the stately home. The sole survivor of a stately home air disaster 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z But now Keith M. Caneiro is dead, killed on Tuesday along with his wife and children in their stately home in Colts Neck, N.J., which was then set on fire, law enforcement officials said. A Family Murdered, a Brother in Jail and a Deepening Mystery in New Jersey 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The numbers involved in the renovation of what is thought to be the UK's biggest stately home are staggering. Inside 'UK's biggest restoration project' 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It was inspired by Albarn’s visit to Penrhyn castle, near Bangor, a Victorian stately home built using the inherited proceeds from slavery in Jamaica. Damon Albarn on Brexit: 'We live on this stroppy little island' 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z On 29 January 1971, a letter was sent to a stately home in Berkshire confirming a bulky delivery, a birthday present for the buyer’s wife – a grand piano, spray-painted white and costing £1,891. Not the only one: how Yoko Ono helped create John Lennon’s Imagine 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z With the help of drones, experts have discovered lines in yellowing fields revealing Neolithic settlements, a Roman villa, and long-gone stately homes, among other remnants. Melting Ice Uncovers 1946 Wreckage of U.S. Plane in Swiss Glacier 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It overlooks an outcrop of the park that used to form the grounds of a stately home. Road scheme 'could harm ancient woods' 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Later on Thursday, Trump will travel to Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century stately home where Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill was born and spent most of his childhood. Donald Trump arrives in Britain for first visit as U.S. president 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Trump will travel to Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century stately home where Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill was born and spent most of his childhood. Trade and tea with Queen for Trump on visit to Britain in 'turmoil' 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z San Francisco treat: One of San Francisco’s most stately homes is owned by the writer of the Rice-a-Roni jingle. Essential California: Green card in wallet, he's facing deportation 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Several hotels and stately homes are holding events, such as National Trust for Scotland property Haddo House in Aberdeenshire which is holding an afternoon tea, with live BBC coverage of the wedding. Party time for the village of Markle 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The privately owned stately home was built in 1666 by the 2nd Duke of Buckingham as a gift to his mistress. Meghan's wedding eve hotel revealed 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Like a toff wanting to preserve the stately home, it appears that the stage is now set for Lachlan to take over the lot. Rupert Murdoch: Will this prove to be the media king’s last act? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z However, Stoke Park resort, which was once a stately home, said the artist often painted pictures of local deer there, including the Monarch stag. Hotel claims Monarch stag was English 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Earthquake-related property damage had upended Michael Miller’s real estate business, forcing the family to eventually abandon its stately home in the city’s exclusive North of Montana neighborhood. Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Grosvenor saw the painting while visiting the stately home with his wife and daughter “as regular punters”. Lost Rubens portrait of James I's 'lover' is rediscovered in Glasgow 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z It was in Glasgow Museums' collection and on public display at the city's Pollok House stately home. 'Lost' Rubens discovered after 400 years 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z In the nearby city of Bochum, an old industrial plant—now the site of the German Mining Museum—is surrounded with stately homes flanked by lush gardens. Germany's Transition from Coal to Renewables Offers Lessons for the World 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The stately home is owned by Manchester City Council, which is partly funding the repairs, along with money from insurance and charity fundraising. Wythenshawe Hall fire: Man jailed for arson attack - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z West Ham can then return to their stately home, a gift from a generous nation. First lesson from world championships: there is no next Usain Bolt | Matthew Engel 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Oxford’s main thoroughfare, lined with stately homes and towering oaks, is named Lamar Avenue. Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The members of the elite cannot be depended on to look after their stately homes any more than they can be relied on for their moral judgment. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Organisers of the June 29 to July 2 event in southern England said the sculpture towering above the stately home will celebrate the "Five Ages of Ecclestone". Goodwood to celebrate Ecclestone's career 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Many stately homes, including Bletchley Park, were requisitioned as part of the war effort. Reality Check: Can the government requisition homes? - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z They met in three-hour weekly sessions on Capitol Hill and at Warner’s stately home, where he grilled steaks. Warner steps into the spotlight in Trump-Russia probe 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z George Haynes — who migrated to New York from Pine Bluff, Ark., and bought a stately home in Harlem — represents an upward leap in class and education, but the family struggles to keep climbing. Opinion | Tracing his family’s migration from the rural south to the big cities of the north. 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The English no more begrudge a thick lord his stately home than the Americans begrudge a fake-tanned property mogul his billions. Praise Philip, the Prince of Misrule | James Hawes 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Having told Charles that a man should “have as many affairs as he can,” Mountbatten offered up his stately home as a love shack. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z A stately home in Bedfordshire is preparing for the return of treasured family portraits that were sold 100 years ago. Portraits return to Wrest Park a century after sale - BBC News 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z This was first cultivated and grown in Britain at Chatsworth house, an English stately home in the Peak District, by head gardener Joseph Paxton. Why tomato is the world's favoured fruit - BBC News 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z By then, the family’s stately home in New York was riddled with such scars — nicks in the walls, scratches in the floor, a divot in the marble countertop lining the kitchen sink. The next level 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z His artificial trees can be found in airports, universities, stately homes and hospitals. Christmas trees: Real or fake? - BBC News 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z That stance puts the former prime minister, who lives in a stately home west of Paris, at odds with the populist plan advanced by his likely chief rival, far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen. François Fillon Pitches Bitter Economic Medicine in Bid for French Presidency 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z She marched her children around English stately homes and told us the history of these places, in loud, confident tones; we sometimes feared that she might be mistaken for a docent. Lessons from My Mother 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z She will sample the culinary histories of stately homes and create new recipes inspired by her visits in Mary Berry's Secrets From Britain's Great Houses. Mary Berry's first post-Bake Off show revealed - BBC News 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The main social drama was the construction of gaudy McMansions in neighborhoods that mostly had more stately homes. Trump’s Last Pitch to the Philadelphia Suburbs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It begins in 1929, with the construction of this stately home of enviable arches, rich details and classic proportions. Expanding and preserving a classic Capitol Hill home, brick by brick 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The Sun newspaper reported "fury" from veterans after huge Nazi flags were draped across the stately home in Oxfordshire this week. Transformers' Blenheim Palace 'Nazi' scenes defended - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr Ross wants to transform the listed stables at his stately home in Leicestershire into a 400-seat opera theatre. Opera theatre plan at Carphone Warehouse founder's estate - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Elaborately curved railings, trademark features of the Art Nouveau movement popular in the two decades before the First World War, used to highlight the facade of the stately home. Art Nouveau masterpiece abandoned in decaying Brussels warehouse 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The school was a former stately home situated in 25 acres of parkland that also contained a Saxon church and Italian gardens. A moment that changed me: being sent away to my loveless boarding school | Kate Morris 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z When fire ravaged an historic stately home in Manchester, its owners were simply glad the building survived. Experts assess damage after fire at Wythenshawe Hall - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Whether he’s scaling a building 20 stories up, flash-lighting through abandoned asylums, scouring stately homes or infiltrating the deep wells of Joseph Bazalgette’s Victorian sewer systems, no No Trespass sign thwarts him. Meet the Place Hackers 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Coates wrote on Monday that the success of the memoir shocked him, as did the sizable royalty checks he received, which he said helped him buy the stately home at 207 Lincoln Road. Ta-Nehisi Coates Opts Out of Move to Brooklyn After Media Attention 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Hanif lives in Defence, a neighborhood of stately homes on the Arabian Sea. A Pakistani Novelist Tests the Limits 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z So families may once again be able to abandon the humdrum pleasures of theme parks and stately homes in favour of prancing through the centre of a giant creature of the deep. When dead whales went on tour - BBC News 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Once the oil ran out, the scion of the family, G. Allan Hancock, made another killing on his family's land by subdividing it and selling lots in what became a neighborhood of stately homes. Hancock Park 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Trent Park, a stately home in north London, will soon be developed into luxury homes. 'Last chance' for museum of secret listeners - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, printed in 1623 and one of the most sought-after books in the world, has been discovered in a stately home on a Scottish island. Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The next year, he founded Gordonstoun school, taking over a stately home in Morayshire, an area where he had spent time while a student at Oxford before World War One. Kurt Hahn: The man who taught Philip to think - BBC News 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The heart of it is a grid of compact but stately homes with trees on small lots. The Life-Style Guru of Frugality 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Buy a banana and it will almost certainly be descended from one plant grown at an English stately home. The imminent death of the Cavendish banana and why it affects us all - BBC News 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z He visits wealthy suburbs, depressed seaside towns, rolling countryside, wild coastlines, famous attractions, quirky museums and crumbling stately homes. Bill Bryson tours Britain in ‘The Road To Little Dribbling’ 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University, said her first reaction on being told the stately home was claiming to have an original First Folio was: "Like hell they have." Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Porter Ranch is a bucolic community of large, stately homes in the foothills of the north San Fernando Valley. Gas company pinpoints well spewing noxious odor over LA 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z When the merchants Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel teamed up to open a luxury department store on the Fifth Avenue in 1924, it was still largely a quiet stretch of stately homes. Saks Is Shaking Off Retail Gloom With a Fifth Avenue Face-Lift 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z He ended up running the meat department of our local supermarket and, after twenty years, had saved enough to build a stately home in a northern suburb. What Provoked Palestinian Knife Attacks in Israel? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z He listed his address as a stately home in Queens where no one answered the doorbell on Thursday. A Bleecker Street Salesman Dealing in Knives, Garrotes and Blowguns 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The goatskin-bound book will now go on public display at the stately home for the first time. Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The artworks will be on show at the stately home until 20 December. Lawrence Weiner shows text art at Blenheim Palace - BBC News 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z It takes place in a marquee outside a stately home in Berkshire, Welford Park, one village away from Peasemore, where the prime minister grew up. Keep calm and vote Dave 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The couple began shuttling between a modest apartment in Earl’s Court, West London, and their stately home in Dorset. How a New York DJ Turned Earl Revived an English Manor 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The Observer's focus is on the abbey itself, or rather the Berkshire stately home that plays host to the show: Highclere Castle. Newspaper headlines: Jeremy Corbyn's first week and Downton Abbey returns - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Members of the public will be able to catch a glimpse of a stately home for the first time since it was destroyed by a devastating fire. Clandon Park House: Inside fire-hit mansion - BBC News 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The grounds of an 18th Century stately home destroyed by fire are to be opened for the first time since the blaze. Clandon Park House: Fire-hit Surrey mansion grounds re-open - BBC News 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Reason to go: Mr. Gilkes extols the area’s “rolling green hills” dotted with sheep and stately homes, just two hours from London. Summer Travel Secrets of Fashion Insiders 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Today, the stately home is flanked by smaller houses in the $300,000 range, on a road peppered with commercial buildings. For History Buffs, Civil War-Era Homes for Sale 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Hundreds of paintings and artefacts were destroyed when the stately home caught fire in April 2014. Work to rebuild fire-hit Clandon Park begins - BBC News 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Visit any castle, stately home or battlefield this summer and you may find a host of characters, from Romans to the Red Army, via Robin Hood, waiting to welcome you. Ye olde retail therapy: Shopping on history's high street - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Police said the victims were killed and their stately home on Woodland Drive was burned after the money was delivered. Police say cellphones were stolen from slain Savopoulos family 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Four days after the Facebook messages on May 14, the family’s stately home in one of D.C.’s most expensive neighborhoods was torched. ‘A little piece of our hearts are gone’ 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Guests hear about Rockford’s history and present as the boat passes stately homes and parklands. Forest City Queen riverboat has new look in Rockford 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Silva’s proposal triggered intense anger from Clifton residents, who worried about extra traffic and drunk drivers in a neighborhood of stately homes and quiet country roads. Beer-fueled fight in Fairfax prompts officials to look at state farming law 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z The second of three children, she grew up in the Ashburton neighborhood on Baltimore’s west side, a middle-class community of stately homes, landscaped yards and wide, tree-lined streets. Fixing Baltimoreans’ relationship with police next challenge for mayor 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z A "significant" number of valuable antiques have been saved from a devastating fire at an 18th Century stately home, the fire service said. Clandon Park House fire: Antiques saved from fire-hit mansion - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Efforts are under way to save "irreplaceable" antiques at an 18th Century stately home after parts of it were gutted in a huge blaze. Clandon Park House fire: Salvage operation under way - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Fire-fighters are tackling a large fire at a stately home in Surrey. 'Devastating' blaze at Clandon Park stately home - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The childhood home he shared with his two brothers and sister was Invergordon Castle, a now demolished stately home. The schoolboy sailors who died at Gallipoli 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z They spent the remainder of the war in commandeered stately homes, old Army barracks or hastily thrown together huddles of huts, often built by the prisoners themselves. What happened to WW2 POW camps? 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Over the next few months, architecture and design aficionados in the Washington region can choose from hundreds of stately homes, lush yards and embassies to admire as the annual spring house and garden tours begin. Spring home tours a beautiful tradition in the District area 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A question mark currently hangs over the future of one of Europe's biggest private stately homes. Who holds the keys to our mansions? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The visit went without incident and Noel moved in September to a stately home with a front porch on a corner of a residential block in Riverdale. For Special-Care Residents, State Policy Means Leaving Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy in his grand, stately home, the disreputable gap-toothed rogue spots a chance to escape financial ruin when a rare Goya canvas goes missing after a lethal robbery. Review: Depp indulges inner clown in charmless ‘Mortdecai’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It says tennis balls were cut and placed as "feet" on lighting stands to prevent equipment scratching the floors of stately homes where filming took place. Islamist concerns on front pages 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps more than 1,000 years old and weighing an estimated 23 tonnes, the Major Oak has been described as "a stately home" in the forest. Major Oak aims for top tree title 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It was an opinion shared by many when the stately home was the highest symbol of aristocratic wealth. Who holds the keys to our mansions? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The nicest neighborhoods are snuggled in leafy middle- and upper-middle-class enclaves, where manicured lawns and stately homes and apartment buildings are enshrouded in a peaceful cocoon. Losing Hope in Wilmington, Delaware A stately home once owned by composer and songwriter Cole Porter is listed in Hollywood Hills West at $11.5 million. Iggy Azalea, Nick Young buy Selena Gomez's house in Tarzana 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z The stately homes are set back from the street on sizeable lots. Prosecutor: Victims in McLean stabbing were held in a ‘torture session’ And if you want to get to know the secrets of a stately home, I always say, just ask the butler. Scandalous tales from the British embassy in Paris 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Living in genteel poverty in stately homes, the girls variously believed in poltergeists, pre-destination and barmy superstitions. The six sisters that captured the maelstrom 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Her son, the Duke of Devonshire, confirmed her death through a statement from Chatsworth House, her stately home. Last Mitford sister dies at 94 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Such a beauty when young, she said; she had visited his rival stately home, Graceland, and thought it very moving. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire obituary 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Nicknamed the "housewife duchess", she made Chatsworth one of the most successful and profitable stately homes in England. Obituary: Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z What started as a small clapboard house more than two centuries ago evolved into this stately home with 21st-century amenities. House of the Week | Historic Alexandria home for $5.2M In the grounds of the stately home, she was presented with a hamper of local foods and also met staff from the air ambulance, mountain and dog rescue search teams and Peak District park rangers. Queen and Duke visit Derbyshire 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers at Headley Court in Surrey is set to move to a stately home in the East Midlands. Stately home to be rehab centre 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Behind his stately home, the appearance of a giant mast heralds a wind turbine twice as high. Ireland's rural protests over wind energy 2014-02-02T01:37:13Z In a telling sign of his growing self-confidence, last week Gabriel arrived a brazen half-hour late to a cabinet meeting at a stately home just outside Berlin, keeping Merkel waiting. Under Gabriel, Germany's SPD sets the pace in Merkel coalition 2014-01-29T14:46:26Z In Europe they abandoned their trucks and their door-to-door frauds to begin flying from place to place, visiting castles, stately homes, and natural history museums. The Irish Clan Behind Europe's Rhino-Horn Theft Epidemic 2014-01-02T18:14:47Z There are no enlisted barracks or stately homes for officers, just a dozen utilitarian buildings and a hulking hangar. Mansfield, Ohio, air base’s fate reflects a larger battle between active duty, reserves 2013-12-17T00:20:06Z The centre will be funded by donors led by the Duke of Westminster, who bought the stately home in 2011. Stately home to be rehab centre 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He associates past visits to stately homes with rock-hard scones but thinks for many people it's increasingly all about the food. Ace cafe with quite a nice ancient monument attached? 2013-10-07T07:28:52Z But can they also use that sensitivity to save the nation's stately homes from the scourge of dry rot? Dry rot sniffer dog saves heritage 2013-09-28T08:14:20Z Bellingham also currently presents Country House Sunday on ITV, a weekly show in which she explores stately homes around the UK. Actress Lynda Bellingham has cancer 2013-07-15T23:12:22Z I think film-makers like it because of the architecture - you get stately homes as well as the industrial settings. How did Bollywood reach Birmingham? 2013-06-28T05:20:36Z Folks who lived in the stately homes lining the perimeter of Merion threw open their doors for a giant block party. McIlroy miserable at Merion with awful results 2013-06-16T23:49:11Z "We will not target exchange rates," he told reporters after hosting a two-day meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers in a stately home 40 miles outside London. UK's Osborne says G7 vows to tackle bank reform with urgency 2013-05-11T12:28:58Z But detecting the rot is a serious business for the National Trust, the charitable trust which maintains some of Britain's most treasured stately homes. Dry rot sniffer dog saves heritage 2013-09-28T08:14:20Z "Markets determine currency moves," a senior Japanese finance official told reporters before the meeting of G7 policymakers finance leaders an English stately home 40 miles northwest of the capital. Yen slide in focus as G7 finance chiefs meet 2013-05-10T09:10:25Z Mr. Havemeyer, the town trustee, recalled that he grew up on the beach here in a stately home owned by his grandmother. Southampton Homeowners Build Barricades to Hold Back Sea 2013-04-18T02:30:39Z Organizers converted the museum’s grands salons into a stately home, replete with a kitchen and lounge. Paris Fashion Week: H&M's Key Looks 2013-02-28T07:00:00Z Viscount Thurso, possibly the only parliamentarian to be kicked out of the Lords then voted into the Commons, gave a magnificent stately home of a speech. Boundaries debate: shipwreck survivors fall out and are over a barrel 2013-01-29T19:28:24Z The once stately homes along the beach now hang like cardboard boxes. City Room: Metropolitan Diary: The Rockaway Spirit Lives After Sandy 2013-01-28T07:00:27Z Held in a stately home, they were allowed to keep personal servants, drink wine and eat good food. Secret listeners who bugged the Nazis 2013-01-18T01:47:10Z Imagine you are trying to maintain a stately home or a medieval castle. Historic skills kept alive at castle 2012-12-28T00:13:23Z I think Heseltine would sooner burn down his own stately home than gift the government's critics a disloyal headline. Michael Heseltine: 'I would have liked to be prime minister' 2012-11-25T20:00:03Z "Parliament is not a stately home; it is not a tourist attraction in the sense of many of our other tourist attractions," he said. Parliament 'could be theme park' 2012-11-08T16:00:22Z Set in a crumbling stately home, the play stars Frances de la Tour as the impoverished owner resisting its sale to the charity. Bennett's swipe at National Trust 2012-11-08T13:58:30Z Factors include reduced visitor numbers at countryside attractions such as stately homes and camp sites. Weather 'cost rural Britain £1bn' 2012-09-09T22:06:19Z Instead of stately homes or snow-covered palaces, this Anna Karenina largely unfolds inside a crumbling playhouse whose stage, wings and auditorium provide settings for the action. The Wright way to film Karenina? 2012-09-07T00:49:38Z A similarly comprehensive redevelopment is under way at the army's medical rehabilitation centre, located in another former stately home, Headley Court in Surrey, to expand its capacity. The military's rehab put to the test 2012-08-23T15:54:57Z A small stately home built on the site was burnt down during a 19th Century riot. Nottingham's Robin Hood headache 2012-08-17T05:54:47Z Bob Crowley's set design replicates the interior of a stately home Dorothy describes the National Trust as a "pretend England... so decent, so worthy, so dull". Bennett's swipe at National Trust 2012-11-08T13:58:30Z The sentiment carries up hilly Girl Scout Road, where stately homes and a few horse farms border Camp Pennyroyal. Coal Mine Plan Shakes Up Kentucky Camp 2012-08-15T04:30:03Z From the shack to the stately home, Jamaica inspires extraordinary affection. How Jamaica conquered the world 2012-08-04T23:04:06Z Outside, a far larger crowd milled around, catching glimpses of the celebration over the fence, for all the world like a group of lowly gardeners in a stately home in times past. Letters: Hurdles cleared … now let these Games begin 2012-07-26T19:59:03Z Even restrained applause sounds like hailstones on the windowpanes of a stately home; once Murray was closing in on the match, his eyes steely and his body sensing the kill, the noise was utterly raw. Andy Murray thrills late-night Wimbledon crowd by beating Baghdatis 2012-07-01T00:04:41Z They have come from the office and the shop, from domestic service and the dressmaker’s room, from the High Schools and the Colleges, and from the quietude of the stately homes of the leisured rich. The Woman's Part A Record of Munitions Work 2011-12-31T03:00:15.627Z Many a stately home is desolate, many an humble dwelling miserable, because the God of the gospel is denied, and that uncompromising law which secures the home its purity, peace and power, has been broken. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z The distracting proximity of his stately home was apparently forgotten in this peaceful spot. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Others are at a hotel in Edgartown, a stylish port known for its stately homes built by whaling captains. For President at Play, Family Outings, Golf and Lots of Advisers 2011-08-20T01:41:53Z Country House Weddings, a company operating four stately homes in Essex, Gloucestershire and Somerset, holds 250 weddings a year at each venue. Saturday's out 2011-08-04T00:37:03Z One pictures an array of athletes taking tea on the lawns of a stately home, their muscles rippling under lace gowns and boaters. At least Lord Coe is up to speed 2011-07-30T23:06:16Z He examined the wounds, looked at the gun, did what was necessary to stop the immediate bleeding, and soon the Squire was carried on a hastily improvised litter back to his stately home. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z It is not always that the stately home is the scene of domestic felicity. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z Originating in the Middle East, the plane was planted as a specimen at the privately-owned stately home. Pitch-sized tree is a UK record 2011-06-07T15:50:30Z Tredegar House, one of the most historic stately homes in south Wales, is to be leased to the National Trust for 50 years. Trust to take over Tredegar House 2011-05-26T16:30:43Z Hall, the stately home of the Lombe family, was completed at about this date. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z As editor of Tatler, I would say, ‘I want to send Norman Parkinson or Derry Moore to take pictures of your stately home.’ Tina Brown Is Still Hungry for Buzz 2011-05-07T03:21:20Z At Sloville there passed away not only the stately home, but the family that lorded it long. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z That night they slept in the town of Warwick and the next day explored the old city and the splendid castle, the ancient and stately home of the Earls of Warwick. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z It is hoped a higher profile as the National Trust's first stately home in south Wales will boost paying visitor numbers from 25,000 to 100,000 a year. Trust to take over Tredegar House 2011-05-26T16:30:43Z It now occupies vast expanses of Richmond at the tip of The Fan, a residential district of stately homes and trendy restaurants. VCU sees opportunity in Final Four trip 2011-03-31T01:21:08Z But why go dreaming back from the brimming, shady Sunday River to the “stately homes of England!” The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z And thus there vanished for ever from the face of the earth another of ‘The stately homes of England— How beautiful they stand Amidst their tall ancestral trees, Through all the pleasant land.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z The stately homes of England—how beautiful they stand!—amidst the tall, ancestral trees, o'er all the pleasant land! Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Rural sights to them had hitherto been sights of trim meadows bordered by neat hedgerows, of well-cultivated fields and comfortable farmsteads, or of stately homes set in fair gardens and far-reaching parks of magnificently-spreading trees. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Princess Diana was raised in a stately home with an earl for a father and a pedigree that linked her to almost every other blueblood in the land. Prince William?s Kate Will Be Britain?s First Thoroughly Modern Princess 2010-11-16T17:15:00Z Winsor Cove, a classic New England bay surrounded by bluffs and stately homes, bore the brunt. After Oil Cleanup, Hidden Damage Can Last for Years 2010-07-18T01:03:00Z It is unclear how formative these events were for Mr. Shahzad, who continued to lead a somewhat sheltered existence, living with his family in a neighborhood of stately homes fringed by palm trees and bougainvillea. For Times Sq. Suspect, Long Roots of Discontent 2010-05-15T23:51:00Z The shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Paterson, hosted the discussions, along with the Tories' sister party, the Ulster Unionists, at one of England's stately homes, Hatfield House. Tories chase votes through night 2010-05-05T00:39:00Z A Northumberland stately home, described as one of the finest in England, has reopened to the public after being saved for the nation. Saved stately home reopens 2010-05-02T11:17:00Z He also takes them to fund-raisers in stately homes on the Peninsula. Nonprofits Add Mentoring to Money to Keep Minorities in College 2010-03-19T04:08:00Z Round-table talks could be called, and a stately home in the country could be booked to concentrate the parties' minds - and keep the media at bay. 2010-01-11T01:35:00Z Of the several stately homes surrounding Macon, but one or two remained in the family after the war. The Man from Jericho "In England they call him Blake of Blakeney; his home is in Sussex and I believe that it is a stately home." The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel The Jewish Countess will not only give of her wealth, but will leave her stately home and seek out the abode of sorrow and distress. The Religious Life of London Mr. Stretton's manner continued to be mysteriously deferential toward him, and something in his air reminded David of England and the atmosphere of his uncle's stately home. The Mountain Girl I like well its stately homes and its women with honey-throated voices. Seeds of Pine Oaklands had never before seemed desolate and drear; and she could not have believed, had she been told, that she could ever look with ungracious eyes upon the stately home of her childhood. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Cawdor took rank among the most stately homes of England: it had been originally one of the grand Saxon strongholds, one, too, which the Normans had found hard to conquer. A Mad Love He pictured Finn lying on a rug in the fine hall of his fine house, which he was told was equal to that of one of the stately homes of England. Finn The Wolfhound It was whispered that Warner would accompany Hunsdon to London, be a guest in his several stately homes, possibly be returned from one of his numerous boroughs. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 Candles were then the only light for the stately homes of England, the House of Commons, the theatres. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 Or one of your aristocrats with a stately home in the country, and dogs and horses, and a beautiful wife. Dreamers of the Ghetto In that quiet neighborhood all lights had long since been extinguished, and there was no sign of life in any of the stately homes bordering the snowy Square. Divided Skates Penshurst Place was, and is, one of the most beautiful of the stately homes of England. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Even the stately homes of England would appear commonplace in the absence of the majestic trees and forests which now encircle them. The Road and the Roadside So, presently he left the highway and limped across the fields toward the woods where instinct told him was safe hiding; and Montgomery reached the stately home of his forefathers in good time. The Brass Bound Box Yet in a few minutes one may leave all this behind, and drive along tree-lined roads and avenues to where, probably amidst swaying firs, a "stately home" of South Africa is picturesquely standing. The Rhodesian The stately homes of England,— How beautiful they stand, Amid their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature From old pictures, it looks much more like a stately home than a bank, and part of it was used as his home by William Whann, the cashier. A Portrait of Old George Town I ascribed this emotion to the atmosphere of a stately home abandoned by its owners. The Orchard of Tears They built themselves stately homes with substantial barns. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days We know several people who live in such stately homes, but we shall be satisfied with a simpler house, consisting of fewer buildings and fewer courtyards. Peking Dust On a commanding position, overlooking the Avon, stands Warwick Castle, the ancient and stately home of the Earl of Warwick. Shepp's Photographs of the World Gossip saith that there are quiet hours spent by these two in the seclusion of the bachelor’s stately home, when, doubtless, his masculine heart melteth within him, and the bonds of his servitude are tightened. Jewel Weed On the brow of the Chilterns an opening in the woods has borne the name of "the Queen's Gap" ever since Griffith Hampden cleared an avenue for one of Elizabeth's visits to his stately home. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 A word or two about this stately home and its proprietor. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Time had created it, as Time would destroy it, but at present it was in perfect preservation, and figured in steel-plate engravings as one of the stately homes of England. The Bishop's Secret They have been locked up in the stately homes of England. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Here is my stately home; my fountain-head is among high cities.' The Aeneid of Virgil Even the University campus was less admirable, architecturally, than I had supposed it to be, and the residences of its famous professors were hardly the stately homes of luxury I had remembered them. A Daughter of the Middle Border THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! English Songs and Ballads Set back from the street, its immaculate lawn dotted with shade-giving sycamore trees, it was reminiscent of one of the "stately homes of England." Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles In my time I'd heard a lot of talk about the stately homes of England, but this was the first time I had ever set eyes on one. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta To them, and to his stately home, he was fondly attached, notwithstanding his foreign education. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Many are the stories which their parents have to tell of the once stately home of the Cairns family, but the story the children like best to hear is how Father lit the Castle Light. Chatterbox, 1905. The stately homes of England have ever numbered some very odd names. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions A grateful people have erected a monument to commemorate his public services, while from the French Broad to the Atlantic, alike in humble cabin and stately home, his name is a household word. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective How well I remember, in what "stately home of England" I first listened to that pleasant ditty. Border and Bastille We build the new worlds of our knowledge out of the dust of worlds already swinging in space; the stately homes of our imagination, rise on foundations of the common earth. Under the Trees and Elsewhere From dark immuring walls and dingy ways of trade, From high society's luxurious stately homes, From lounging places by the park or promenade, From rural dwellings canopied in sylvan shade, The tourist comes. Poems Vol. IV It came right up into the city and went stalking brazenly into the most stately homes along the wooded avenues and beautiful boulevards. A Melody in Silver The years roll back, and splendid farms, stately homes, magnificent churches, and the marvellous appliances of modern life are for the moment lost to view. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Clemence Graystone, with her bright, radiant face, had seemed to her fond father like a sunbeam gilding that stately home, and warming into living beauty what else would have been only cold magnificence. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland As Washington grew, fashion favored other sections, and the stately homes of Georgetown were stranded among small shops and dingy tenements. Honey-Sweet "The stately homes of England How beautiful they stood Before their recent owners Relinquished them for good," as the poet justly observes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 Mrs. Nicholson’s name was not in Burke’s ‘Landed Gentry,’ and The Laburnums could hardly be estimated as one of the stately homes of England. The Disentanglers Back they came from Chequamegon, and the stately home on Summit Avenue reopened to receive them. From the Ranks In the afternoon we visited the modern Kinfauns, the stately home of Lord Grey. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe When Karissima goes on a visit to the stately home of the Veres the peace of that ancient haunt of the conventionally correct is queerly broken. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. What a paradise the humblest cottage at home would have seemed to these poor creatures, though some of them had been accustomed to 'stately homes.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Gradually it lost its appearance of a contractor's yard and looked like one of the stately homes of England. The Portland Peerage Romance The very name for some stately home of England.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through Washington arrived in November and took possession of the stately home of Robert Morris, although he grumbled that the stables would hold but twelve horses. The Conqueror On a farm near Lexington, in this beautiful country of stately homes, fine herds, and great flocks, the author was born, and there he spent his childhood and youth. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 To Oxford 'twas your husband went— The stately home of Don and Proctor— Where, 'mid the deafening cheers that rent The air, he straight became a Doctor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 It was formerly the custom for everyone who paid a visit to the stately home in Sherwood Forest, whether on business or pleasure, not to come away without tasting the Worksop ale. The Portland Peerage Romance The Atridæ's name abides, while all the wealth Won from the sack of Priam's stately home A mist closed o'er it, to be seen no more. Theocritus, translated into English Verse Its embattled towers, beautiful windows and ivy-clad walls make up an ideal picture of a "stately home of England." Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Though Mrs. Midas shows a righteous zeal In preaching self-control at every meal, She never in her stately home forgets To cater freely for her precious pets. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 Florence was neglected and coldly looked upon, and his breast was full of youthful interest for the slighted child in her dull, stately home. Dombey and Son The words gave him an electric shock, for few were the rebellious spirits who would have dared to call the stately home of the van der Luydens gloomy. The Age of Innocence She envisioned a large property with a simple, stately home, the stable not far from her own back door, nestled among the rolling hills where she and Jean-Pierre would ride. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko My readers will be specially interested to know that this is the luxurious and stately home of Mr. Granville, whose son's fortunes we have been following. The Errand Boy Jacob and Susan are happy in their stately home, and good as they are happy. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home On the right we look across the nearer grasslands into the great park of Castle Howard, and catch glimpses between the distant masses of trees of Lord Carlisle's stately home. Yorkshire The Colonel and his wife, who had always liked Ida, liked her all the better now that they saw her established in a stately home—the only daughter of a man of fortune and position. The Golden Calf The country-seat of the English squire or nobleman has become—may we not say?—one of the world's chosen types of a happy and a stately home. Wordsworth And yet the days at Hainault were very happy, and the bright visits to Gaydene, and her own pleasant though stately home. Endymion It is one of the stately homes of England; how beautiful they stand, and I'm crazy about it. The Adventures of Sally "The stately homes of England," as we see them at Wilton and Longford Castle, are not more admirable in their splendors than "the blessed homes of England" in their modest beauty. Our Hundred Days in Europe Kedzie was assured that life with Jim had nothing new to offer and she resented him as a barrier between herself and the glory of her future with Strathdene and "the stately homes of England." We Can't Have Everything The Manor House is a stately home again, with trim lawns and terraced balustrades, where we can sit and see the thin blue smoke hang above the village on summer evenings. Moonfleet It was the custom in those days in the stately homes of England for the whole strength of the company to take their meals together. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories My father, as you may have noticed during your stay at our stately home of England, is a man of a warm, impulsive character. Psmith in the City The house itself bore evidence of having once been a stately home. Colonel Carter of Cartersville She went about much in stately homes, and her name was celebrated in what the newspapers insist upon calling the "exclusive" circles. We Can't Have Everything Money will build a grand and stately home in the fair proportions of a castle, but money has to run in the blood for centuries to produce a scene like this. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Many of the stately homes of England, therefore, are for rent, and their owners live more within themselves and in simpler manner than before. Round the World To the earl they meant ruin—absolute, irretrievable ruin, and with it the loss of his stately home that had been the pride of the Oxheads for generations. Literary Lapses The region abounded in natural beauty and stately homes. An Original Belle It was a macadamized avenue, lined with beautiful and stately homes. The Metropolis Off they whirled and in an incredibly short time the two machines drew up before the judge's stately home, where lights gleamed from every window. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School This is what happens to the stately homes of England—they buzz with inky clerks, or their equivalent. Touch and Go How many grand palaces, how many stately homes, how many splendid residences, once full of retainers, of lords, of ladies, were now left desolate of all, even to the meanest servant! The Decameron, Volume I Beneath the fierce wild storm He hurries to her stately home, and there Her followers wait with hushed and frightened air. Love or Fame; and Other Poems There were confusion and dismay in the stately home of the Earles. Dora Thorne This revelation of life below stairs in the stately homes of England took his breath away. A Damsel in Distress A private tutor is a sort of blend of poor relation and nursemaid, and few of the stately homes of England are without one. Something New He loved the stately homes of England, the ancient graduated order of society, the sports of the past, the military triumphs, the patriotic glories. Essays in Little |
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