Huntly served as a baronial residence for over five centuries. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
A baronial mansion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : living in baronial splendor. From Dictionary.com.
The house is built of reddish granite in what is called the baronial style, with a sprinkling of peaked gables and pepper-box turrets, and. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference
It is known as the baronial, and architects in all parts of the country, when building a modern mansion in the castellated manner, have invariably followed it. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852] Reference
In Katmandu I caught rumors of a couple in the uplands who lived a kind of baronial existence among tribespeople whose benefactors and teachers they were. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The 37-foot gallery opens onto the "baronial" living room with. From Wordnik.com. [All Stories | The New York Observer] Reference
A servant, and the Denmark Hill household was as easy-going as the legendary "baronial" retinue of the good old times. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference
Court, baronial halls, and episcopal palaces as "henchmen.". From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Chetwynde Castle was a large baronial mansion, belonging to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
We may suppose that while Lady Nairn in her baronial hall wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature] Reference
It is known, however, that he lived in baronial style in his new town. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
The ruins of Ponyngs Place, the baronial mansion, are still traceable. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
He was proud, proud of his old name and of his new-founded baronial hall. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
It was the baronial castle of the honour of Bramber, which, at the time of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831] Reference
This the city owes mainly to a few great baronial families, such as the earls of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
But in 1173-74, when the English king's ungrateful son organized a baronial revolt. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
"Well, child," said the baronial councillor's wife, "how are you getting on, anyhow?". From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
We were shown into a large baronial-looking hall, and chairs were placed for us upon the divan. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Ferrara was the home of a wealthy nobility, some of whom belonged to the old baronial families. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The old baronial mansion-house of Carberry stands in the eastern part of the parish of Inveresk. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
"We must visit the tower, the chapel, and the baronial hall, each of which will reward inspection.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Countess of Derwentwater, with a retinue of servants, at the old baronial castle of her ancestors -- Dilston Old. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Stone Arabia, north of the Mohawk between Garoga Creek and Johnstown, where Sir William Johnson's baronial hall was. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
We have already referred to some of the members of this ancient family, and their baronial residence, Alnwick Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Nepi had never been a baronial fief, although the prefects of Vico and the Orsini had held the place at different times. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
It is the boast of some of the old baronial families of England that their ancestors rode with William the Conqueror at Hastings. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
Seated in his baronial office, the bookshelves still empty, he spoke of the challenges the Republicans — and the president — face. From Wordnik.com. [Mcconnell's Challenge] Reference
Treasury Minute, that important document came prominently under discussion at baronial sessions, and the meetings of Relief Committees. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
We passed soon after several of these projections, which look like fortifications and baronial castles of some knights of the olden time. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
This introduces my second impression of the Liberal leader, two years after the outbreak of war, at midnight in a baronial farmhouse in North. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
We were obliged to resume our places in the carriage, and ride some twelve miles, in order to visit the finest baronial ruins in the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
He was still much too young and when my papa appeared on the scene, who had already attained the title of baronial councillor and the proprietorship of. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Go upon the old palatial, baronial, or collegiate plan; no matter what may be the style of architecture you adopt, this plan will be found suitable to any. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The castle is built of granite in the Scots baronial style, with an eastern tower 100 ft. high commanding a superb view -- Ballochbuie and Braemar to the W. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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