We recognized the brown old Gothic pile in a moment; it was like the pictures.

Our Lady of Grace had been a grim place, a Gothic pile full of pale nuns and semidelinquent girls in jumpers and oxford shoes.

A beautiful, cold May morning, and Holmwood House, a Victorian Gothic pile on the edge of Richmond Park, is just stirring.

His collection will eventually be housed in the sprawling splendour of Toddington Manor, the Gothic pile in Gloucestershire he recently purchased for £3m.

It opened into a spacious quadrangle forming the court-yard of a stately Gothic pile, the portal of which stood invitingly open.

The wing of a Victorian Gothic pile, with handsome windows and a fine mahogany front door.

In the basement of this half-ruined Gothic pile, he experiments on his basket-case patients, scanning and galvanizing their brains to verify his pet theories of the mind.

People often resort to military language when they discuss Public School 109, a turreted Gothic pile on East 99th Street and Second Avenue.

Character One of the great 19th-century railway hotels; a vast Gothic pile built to resemble a "Scottish baronial castle".

In the darkness the gables and brickwork took on a sinister look: a Gothic pile gone to ruin, its silhouette black against the dark sky.