"pile" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Cornforth, who died last May at 66, knew his way blindfolded around many a stately pile.
- Inhabited by generations of hunters and horse breeders, it's a stately old pile that manages to exude an unfussy sense of comfort.
- A stately Georgian pile, with a facade sixteen windows wide; parterres in the foreground; huge, smooth lawns receding out of the picture to right and left.
- Built in 1869, it is a stately red-brick Italianate pile surrounded by towering Norwegian spruces and miniature gardens.
- He cast a look back on the stately pile, majestic still, in spite of approaching decay.
- It opened into a spacious quadrangle forming the court-yard of a stately Gothic pile, the portal of which stood invitingly open.
- The flames spread rapidly, and of the stately pile there soon remained no more than the gaunt and blackened walls.
- He has bought a dilapidated stately pile, Toddington Manor, in Gloucestershire, reportedly for £3m.
- I could see the lad as the lord of vast estates, as a duke with scurrying minions and a stately pile in Sussex.
- In altar-wise, a stately pile they rear; The basis broad below, and top advanc'd in air.
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