The French courante was more elegant and stately than its Italian counterpart. |
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The Cathedral itself was just as beautiful, in a more grand and stately manner. |
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As we ascended to the safety stop, the mid-water fish schools hovered, keeping us company until our time on this stately ship was up. |
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Meanwhile rattling traps and keyboard washes take a stately walk towards the desert horizon. |
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Then there is dowager Jodha Bai, stately, self-contained, but lording over her eyes which swell with more water than a cloudburst can contain. |
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If we take her unaffectionate term to mean a kind of stately opulence resulting in cinematic impotence, she has succeeded. |
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The small isle of St. Michael's Mount, accessible by foot when the tide is out, has been home to a priory, castle and stately home. |
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An undisclosed sum that could amount to millions of pounds has been found missing in the accounts of the stately home. |
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I chose a stately breaststroke, slow but sure, that meant I could keep an eye on our target. |
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Suddenly, a tall and stately golden figure saw us and brandished his weapon menacingly. |
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Once the most stately and formal room in the house, the dining room passed out of existence in the Usonian house. |
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Khan Jamal's vibes weave subtly and powerfully around Shipp's melodic, stately and frequently forceful piano lines. |
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The stately Victorian governor general's residence is a significant building. |
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The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify. |
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The stately crane, one of the 200 or so remaining in the wild, slowly beat against the north wind, moving up the narrow strip of land. |
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Barbados's Codrington College, founded in 1830, looks like an old Oxford college set incongruously amidst stately cabbage palms. |
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Kruger had made a trip to Europe in the late 1880s and was impressed by the stately buildings he saw there. |
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Then there was Deal, where we gawked at the mansions and stately summer houses. |
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It is these mighty prelates who gave Salzburg its stately buildings and living legacy of some of the grandest music ever written. |
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Hence, his pictures of dignified students and tradesmen, of elegant homes and stately churches emerge. |
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It wasn't a shock to find that the last relative had died all alone in the stately mansion on Advenger Hill. |
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Outside the doors of these mansions and stately English homes, the First World War is brewing. |
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And I was impressed with Warsaw and its restoration of that stately old city, and its energetic streets. |
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Measured, stately and engaging over the long haul, Equal Area Series is a perfect set piece for the museum. |
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Before long, Hoffman found himself in the grand lobby of a stately mansion. |
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She owns the Borgo Storico Segheti Panichi, a gloriously imposing stately pile near Ascoli Piceno. |
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The clothing, if not exactly regal, was stately, with students making their presence felt by arriving in whites. |
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The grave, formal, stately language, and emblematic imagery make it Ford's finest dramatic achievement. |
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Kamigata-mai is an elegant style of traditional dance derived from ancient stately court dances. |
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The music was slow and stately, and in the back of the church, the bride appeared. |
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The people looked in wonder at the sight of these elegant ladies walking with such stately grace out of the town gate. |
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I walked out of the house in a stately manner, making it look as if I was following the messenger into the carriage. |
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Isn't the harpsichord a delicate instrument for stately Baroque or elegant classical music? |
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Later, Scot and bassist Liebig are featured in a duet, and the two sound like a pair of elegant elephants doing a stately little dance. |
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Every movement a lecture in elegance, she began a slow, stately walk towards their table. |
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His tattered clothing indicated a traveler and a worker, but his stately manner leaned away from both of those. |
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Three of the Guards moved in their slow, stately climb almost directly above them. |
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It is a soft, sympathetic sort of embrace, which has the appearance of a rather stately group hug. |
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I can now work through Bach's Minuet in G major, BWV 114 without errors, though at a stately, slow pace. |
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The Lord of the course strut, a slow and stately stride, proclaiming for all to see that the 18th fairway is indeed his sovereign territory. |
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This weekend sees the second Salisbury Motor Show to be held in the picturesque grounds of Wilton House, the stately home of the Pembroke family. |
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The comedy couple have entertained at holiday centres, stately homes, many major public events, store openings and private parties. |
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Children from the Russian nuclear disaster city of Chernobyl were given a tour around one of Yorkshire's most impressive stately homes yesterday. |
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There are many stately homes and castles in the area, such as Traquair House and Neidpath Castle, and plenty of hill walks and golf on offer. |
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The concert was at Kenwood House in Hampstead, which is a stately home with very large gardens, and a very pretty location for a concert. |
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Each specially-commissioned carriage is named after one of Britain's most beautiful stately homes and castles such as Chatsworth and Warwick. |
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The Trust has more than 43,000 volunteers helping to look after the organisation's castles, stately homes, cliff tops and moorland. |
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Rachel Underwood, assistant administrator at Castle Howard, admires the snowdrops in the gardens of the stately home, near Malton. |
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Arniston House, a stately home in the Borders, had been invaded by catering trucks, trailers, cables, scaffolding and phalanxes of lights. |
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It can be seen by visitors to Castle Howard during the stately home's flower festival, which continues until next Sunday. |
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In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew. |
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David Warner is nicely sinister as Evil Incarnate, and Sir Ralph Richardson, that stately old figure, is a headmasterly Supreme Being. |
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The group toured the stately home before they explored Castle Howard's grounds during their three-hour stop-off. |
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Gardeners serving at stately homes in Yorkshire originated the tradition of forcing rhubarb into growth. |
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Even today, many top chefs have earned their stripes working in stately homes. |
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Usually lunch is back on board as the ship makes her stately progress to the next port. |
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It is expansive, easy to look out over and often adorned with one or two stately great blue herons. |
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This stately bird is the largest and most widely distributed of the North American herons. |
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Graceland is no stately home befitting a king, it's an ordinary mock-colonial, over-decorated to within an inch of its life. |
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Then came the horses and riders, cantering at a stately pace, clearly restrained by some mysterious hunt etiquette. |
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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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Not only are they among the largest and most stately trees on earth, but they thrive in settings of surpassing scenic beauty. |
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The floor was covered with a plush carpet, and the walls were paneled with a synthetic wood molding, giving the room a stately air. |
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It was a wilderness of cathedral-like redwoods, of ferns and huckleberries, oaks and stately firs, and a myriad of flowers and wildlife. |
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He was coal and wool joined by a stately hyphen and ennobled by five coronets. |
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Against a painted Antarctic backdrop of glaciers, icebergs and floes, groups of stately Emperor penguins pose like actors at curtain call. |
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It was hot, sticky day in the French capital and the match began with the stately tempo of a grandfather clock's pendulum. |
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Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing. |
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It's a seemly confrontation of the inquisitive impatience of the young, and the stately acceptance of the old. |
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Balancing a flimsy umbrella on her shoulder, she began to walk as stately and imperially as ever, into a nearby inn and bar. |
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The painted body of the stately Beekman coach is adorned with the family's coat of arms, crest, and applied floral festoons. |
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Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times confessional, highly personal. |
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Greek Revival and Italianate mansions line the broad streets of this stately, historic neighborhood. |
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To one side lie the stately old buildings with columns and cornices that reference the school's 1845 heritage. |
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It is not, I think, fairly to be described as a stately home, but it is a substantial country house. |
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It has a processional and stately character, having originated in courtly 16th-century ceremonies. |
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The cars are crowd-pullers and appear around the country at stately homes, shopping centres and country fairs. |
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He was garbed in a stately light blue tunic, with gold trimming decorating the chest and sleeves. |
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It also runs a small liveaboard and dayboat to offer more stately progress for genteel clients who don't mind getting up early. |
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Demolition debris surrounds the stately but decrepit house of Sripathi Rao, Nandana's grandfather. |
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A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts. |
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He gave his daughter to Krishna in marriage after a stately religious ceremony. |
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Underwood Side View shows a stately old typewriter in profile, exposing its logical yet formally ornate internal mechanism. |
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The remembered blues of the Nile dominate her works of the early 1980s, their vertical stripes unfolding in a stately progression. |
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The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory. |
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If Lottery backing is approved, a five-year project will see the grounds of the Georgian stately home restored to their former glory. |
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Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction. |
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He was relaxing at the stately home as security men and guard dogs patrolled the grounds. |
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The tall, stately Gullah nurse who'd met them at the clinic smiled at Catherine and continued wrapping an elastic bandage around his wrist. |
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Flo is tall, angular and stately, a fascinating mixture of formal hauteur and bohemian ditziness. |
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Twenty-four stately king palms herald you into the porch where sturdy and gracious durwans welcome you to the hotel. |
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We went through the revolving door and found ourselves in a stately pleasure dome. |
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They adjoin the Alhambra Palace, those stately pleasure domes that the Nasrid caliphs decreed should represent paradise on earth. |
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She imagined a Spanish don living here in the 1800s, and building a stately hacienda in stages as his family grew. |
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It is also one of the top attractions for the flocks of visitors who visit the Wharfedale stately home and its extensive estate and grounds. |
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The house and its gardens are set in extensive park land and a first impression is that of a comfortable stately home. |
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So those old, stately cedar, Douglas fir, and sequoia trees that formerly occupied the now-bare site were sacrificed for nothing. |
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Four stately Whimbrels rested quietly amid the dowitchers, which moved quickly and kept probing the mud with their rod-like bills. |
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Campers will need to avoid the canvas, climbers will go up the wall staying at home, and even visits to stately homes are not advised. |
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The former asylum opened in 1816 is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order. |
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Prowling around the first tee in front of the stately Oakland Hills clubhouse there was a justifiable jauntiness to Westwood and Garcia's gait. |
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His lyrics are offbeat and whip-smart, while the music is stately and pristine yet very much alive and kicking. |
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The stately three-storey Georgian edifice agleam with intricate furniture comes complete with the ghost of former mistress Annie Palmer. |
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The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes. |
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Tall desert oaks grow in the swales between the dunes, and stately desert kurrajongs dot the rolling hills between the ranges. |
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They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day. |
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Bed linens are draped, layered and pleated in three grand monochrome compositions that achieve the stately sublimity of religious art. |
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In contrast to the passionate flamenco of the Andalusians, their national dance is the stately sardana. |
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Closer to home, the Irish Times, once the stately ship of Irish journalism, continues to be battered by storms and controversy. |
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It concludes with a modern-day Bach chorale in the winds and a restatement of the stately, sonorous string chords from the opening procession. |
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But when they approached the stately brick colonial framed by an expansive front lawn and surrounded by forest, she was completely smitten. |
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A 15th century stately home near Westbury is still experiencing major structural problems two years after action was taken to shore it up. |
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There's no hint yet of the kilos of fat that will transform these lithesome beauties one day, after marriage, into stately matriarchs. |
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He has created lots of fun for the little ones and families too among the stately acres that were once dominated by impressive gardens. |
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Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent. |
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That included the SS, who held trainloads of loot stolen from churches, banks, stately homes, museums and castles from around Europe. |
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Slow and stately movement is compounding the lost opportunities of earlier wasted years. |
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At first, we see one loudly dressed mechanic in stately attitude, with his hand on a cannon, ashore, and a ship riding at anchor in the offing. |
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The island's only stately home is a testament to the grandeur of days gone by. |
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Its window bays were small and separated by brick columns that gave them a stately appearance. |
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In France, the dance became slower and more stately, as did the sarabande on its removal to France from Spain. |
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We went to a stately home in Cheshire so they could have a holiday and, on the last night, we played sardines. |
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Some species pair for life, the most celebrated example being the tall stately sarus crane, which graces the green fields of North India. |
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It feels like the best available foil to the stately majesty of Test matches. |
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Today tying the knot is back in fashion, although the ceremony is as likely to take place in a stately home as a church. |
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Chickens scratched in the company of a stately, gruff-voiced, very respectable pig, rooting under a walnut tree. |
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A 19th-century gothic romance, the ballet revolves around a poet and a sleepwalker who meet in the garden of a stately home during a masked ball. |
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In the old Fort area of Bombay, where the British once had their mercantile offices, is a stately stone building called Bombay House. |
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Throughout the landscape stand stately trees thick enough to remind me of California's sequoias, their massive roots winding over the earth. |
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It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer. |
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A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes. |
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They are not just castles and stately homes but the familiar landmarks, public halls, old pubs and houses that define the character and appearance of our streets. |
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The viewer has his eye drawn through the openings of the screens to the end wall on the far side, with several stately blue robed woman gazing through. |
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It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours. |
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In an artful piece of grand-ham acting, he plays the stately lecher Sir Harcourt Courtley as a cross between a demon king, a pantomime dame and the Duke of Wellington. |
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We admired the Basilica, explored interesting side streets and leaned over bridges to watch stately gondoliers bend effortlessly as they passed underneath. |
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For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion. |
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They are dashingly handsome, with flashing eyes and stately moustaches and a welcome that melts away the six-hour journey over potholes to get here. |
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Couples preferring a civil ceremony are increasingly choosing an approved location such as a hotel or stately home with a licence rather than a register office. |
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King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices. |
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He wrote back personally and said he would be delighted to display the tiger at his stately home in Wiltshire which also has a safari park in part of its 10,000-acre estate. |
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Finding the funding to get the plan off the ground was the most daunting task, but once launched, the Leeds International Film Festival sailed forth like a stately galleon. |
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You find them in star hotels, stately homes and houses in upmarket areas. |
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From today they can ride on the Ben Hall steam engine, lovingly carved out of a tree felled from lime avenue, the approach to the stately home's main gates. |
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A stork had bird watchers in a flap when it flew away from a stately home. |
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There was a presentation by general manager Richard Horridge and a tour of the house, which is the stately home of the sixth Earl of Normanton and his family. |
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James Dyson, the boss of Dyson's, has also just bought a stately mansion. |
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Despite its grand, stately appearance, this fine city struggles, shrouded in a shadow of gloom and misery, crushed under an iron fist of oppression. |
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Filmed by Romeike over nine months, it's a stately but impressive work. |
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spent their honeymoon in Ballyfin house, one of Ireland's most stunning and exclusive stately homes. |
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There is no shortage of fine hotels in Montreal and here too, the small and cool mix with the old and stately. |
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Sand has pushed through the stately houses in great waves, pouring through the doorways and filling the rooms. |
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Two hundred and forty miles west of Manhattan, in a stately red brick building perched atop a hill, the party monster waits. |
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Hatchards specialise more in the sort of hardbacks that would look good on the bookshelves of the library in the west wing of one's stately mansion. |
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Elsewhere many visitors strolled around the gardens of stately homes like Castle Howard and Harewood House, enjoying what could be the last warm day of the year. |
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As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable. |
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The stately white-winged square rigger, stuns'ls set, top-gallant flying, every foot of canvas drawing, reeling off the knots before the steady trades, she is an epic. |
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Medieval towers sprout hither and yon, frontages on the titchy streets have a stately aspect, and from the esplanade by the cathedral, the landscape looks mildly Tuscan. |
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They are released now by officials anxious to dispel the myth that bishops, some of whom still occupy grand palaces and stately castles, enjoy a life of luxury. |
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In the pre-spring festival senators and slave owners would put aside their stately togas and kindred marks of rank and don shapeless garments known as syntheses. |
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Similarly, the three turned finials at the top give it a stately quality. |
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The coat was patterned red and gold like the wallpaper in the dining room of a stately home, had a round collar and was fastened with large gold military buttons. |
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Thankfully, the landlady, a stately, old woman with a reassuring gaze was still awake at this ungodly hour and benevolently helped me into a small room on the first floor. |
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It is an area with stately homes and houses that are about a century old. |
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The mannequin, meanwhile, lies in a heap of legs and arms on the stately king-sized bed. |
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A great blue heron ghosted out of the trees, stately and slow. |
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The cars heading down curve slowly, as one watches the flower beds on both sides, not to speak of the stately mansions, condominiums and townhouses that the street bifurcates. |
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It is a stately dance, whose aim is to slow down the unseemly business of mastication. |
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There are also stately homes, farm parks, zoos, museums, craft centres, pixie centre, shire horse centre, vineyards, castles, wildlife parks and other attractions. |
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Andrew Borden, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and his wife, Abby, lived in the stately abode at 92 Second Street. |
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In other words, we feel that we are moving at a slow, stately rate through a universe whose contents have been abnormally slowed. |
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The Romanesque-styled Neuschwanstein sits propped on the Bavarian countryside in a stately pose. |
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A towering perennial, which takes on a stately ghostliness by late autumn, it needs a sheltered spot away from strong winds, which might buffet the stems to breaking point. |
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Travelling by boat to underground caves and visits to Crown Derby factory and showroom, Crystal craft and stately homes, Haddon Hall and Chatsworth House were delights. |
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Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager. |
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Gay is highly regarded for her self-depicting stance that welcomes a less stately, more flawed concept of modern feminism. |
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With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world. |
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The ceremony at the Nieuwe Kerk on dam Square should be a model of stately splendor. |
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The stately buildings, erstwhile the abode of the honoured and wealthy of the city, are now tenanted by humble toilers, or turned into places of business. |
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The canal itself was exactly what we had expected, a strip of water flanked on each side by sand dunes, and a stately procession of ships gliding quietly along. |
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It was a stately allemande, and luckily he knew all the steps. |
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Of the cars that have been associated with the British Royal family, the most memorable have been the large and stately chauffeur-driven limousines and landaulets. |
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This starts with Yat-kha mimicking the horns and cymbals of the monks, then slowly builds through a stately procession to a whirligig masked stomp. |
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On the way the aroma of fields of lavender, rosemary and pine fill the car, and everywhere the stately march of the thousands of cropped vines in the fields. |
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The trees were stately, an opulent mix of mature broadleaf and conifer marching alongside the water in an unruly column stretching to the end of Hillside Drive and beyond. |
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The difference is that millions of peons didn't have to go blind or stooped financing Caesars, or the MGM Grand, or Wynn's stately pleasure domes. |
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I have studied under learned professors in stately halls of learning. |
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She was a tall and stately woman, with angular features and sharp eyes. |
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From Asiatic to Oriental lilies, from the tiger to the Easter lily, these stately, often perfumed flowers look best planted in abundance and mingled into the garden beds. |
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Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three. |
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Fairhurst Ward Abbotts in Dartford have the Royal warrant for decorating and building in Royal palaces, and other stately homes. |
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The buildings consisted of two iingxande and seven stately rondavels, all washed in white lime, dazzling even in the light of the setting sun. |
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Now I know why Keogh was rubbing against the legs of the bloke who owns the stately home. |
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With its grand panoramic views, Olivewood was a stately Italianate-modeled home decorated in traditional Victorian fashion. |
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It is a frenetic, vibrant city with fascinating temples, markets, Chinese shophouses and stately colonial architecture best explored by trishaw. |
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Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered. |
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Mammillaria, which are short, fat and hairy, and cereus, which are tall and stately, belong to which plant family? |
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The students' moais looked like representatives of a stately, regal culture.These statues are called moai and can weigh up to eighty tons each. |
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Walking by the canal in Brindley Place recently, I passed a stately flotilla of Canada geese. |
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I keep spotting tall Acanthus mollis, or bear's breech, right, with its stately spires of white flowers enclosed in pinky-purple bracts. |
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On the Italian teacart rests a stately sterling silver tea service, and on the table a Victorian porcelain set. |
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The main street, called Placa or Stradun, is a wide backbone of polished limestone pavement lined with stately 17th-century shops and housing. |
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Before town they met a maiden drawing water, the stately daughter of the Laestrygonian Antiphades. |
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The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead. |
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There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. |
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In fact this tradition has been revived in parks and stately homes around the UK at promenade concerts such as the Battle Proms. |
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Two days later I took it to the former manse, a solid grey stately Victorian building with a tall monkey puzzle tree on the lawn. |
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Traditional singers who sang in stately homes tended to sing in a Welsh language that had strict rules about metre, rhyme, and acceleration. |
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The stately church dedicated to Our Lady in the castle was destroyed along with the fortress, in the 17th century. |
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It has a number of stately homes including Goodwood, Petworth House and Uppark and also castles such as Arundel Castle and Bramber Castle. |
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Most of the largest stately homes belong to the National Trust due to forms of estate tax. |
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Here stand the great warehouses, five or six stories high, all large and imposing, some of them stately and elegant. |
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Two of her opening lines, The boy stood on the burning deck and The stately homes of England, have acquired classic status. |
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They chose Grafton Manor, a stately home in Bromsgrove, with decorations of her choosing and a spit roast. |
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The 2,000 examples range from the historic to the ultracontemporary, from stately to quirky, ornate to austere. |
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The ERI aims to help communities protect their stately old elm trees from Dutch elm disease. |
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Castle Howard and the Earl of Harewood's residence, Harewood House, are included amongst the Treasure Houses of England, a group of nine English stately homes. |
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My quick eyes ran on From stately nave to nave, from vault to vault, Through bowers of fragrant and enwreathed light, And diamond paved lustrous long arcades. |
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These forests are ancient, with many tree species limited to this region of Australia. This is the home of the stately jarrah and the graceful snottygobble. |
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The stately Woodberry Collection adds a bedroom grouping that includes a blanket chest, nightstand, mirror, dresser, bed, chifforobe and armoire in a planked-cherry finish. |
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During VOC and the colonial era of the Dutch East Indies, the colonial government built several European stately palaces as the residence of the Governor General. |
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The stately Pomposo moves elegantly through low, sumptuous tones to bright airy passages, contrasting wonderfully with the slower and more refined second movement, Largo. |
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The aristocratic stately home continued the tradition of the first large gracious unfortified mansions such as the Elizabethan Montacute House and Hatfield House. |
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There is a wealth of historic country houses and stately homes in rural areas, though the majority of these are now put to other uses than private living accommodation. |
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The ensembles had a stately feel to them, and included a range of kurtas, jodhpurs, dhotis and the essential sherwani, styled together with lavish drapes and cummerbands. |
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There are a number of former stately homes located in Glenrothes. |
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I learned this as soon as I slipped into the stately Old World lobby of Haifa's Dan Cannel and was guided to an ornately decorated room with a majestic king-sized bed. |
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