There were indications that one or more residents of this exclusive community were interested in buying the seven-bedroom hilltop retreat to raze it and resell the land for redevelopment.

Cornelius Billings so enjoyed his hilltop retreat that he had Lowell, working with the landscape architect Charles Downing Lay, expand it into his full-time residence.

The Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel is a secluded three-star hilltop retreat, also marketed as the Lucky Holiday Hotel.

It is also where he built a magnificent home, a hilltop retreat with a 70-mile view that sustains the last of a species: the self-made man.

A delightful hilltop retreat, it has splendid views over the Marina to the bay beyond.

If you steer clear of San Antonio's neon-strip and over-priced clubs, you will discover hilltop retreats, secluded beaches, fashion boutiques and al-fresco restaurants.

And he continued sketching them to the end from Olana, his hilltop retreat that looked out west over the Hudson toward Cole's old home in Catskill, toward the mountains themselves, and toward the sunset.

Holed up in his hilltop retreat in New Hampshire, Salinger waged the war for peace with one spiritual weapon after another.

And when this gets too much, we take a yoga class at the hilltop retreat of Las Palmas overlooking Benirràs beach in the far north of the island.

Mount Auburn was founded as a hilltop retreat for Cincinnati's social elite where wealthier people could escape the dirt, heat, smoke and crowded conditions of the lower city.