The book business does appear to be booming, judging from the new megastores, glittering like Victorian gin palaces.

The old gin palaces with arcane distinctions in the bars vanished completely.

In no world could Hemingway's pursuit of blood and purity from atop a floating gin palace make sense.

In Cole's words, the jet became "a floating gin palace."

At every gin palace, grog shop, brothel and hotel, temptation stared me in the gob.

People who ran their mini-empires of financial trusts and venture projects from floating gin palaces.

It doesn't involve building, mooring, staffing and maintaining a gin palace first.

The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace.

It sounds like a gin palace, Sean was dubious.

He took my arm in a firm grip and steered me through the glass door of a long gin palace of a saloon bar.