"For some people it's a big trauma to be rich suddenly," she said, "to come from a little horrible apartment and suddenly arrive in a splendid apartment."

In addition to splendid royal apartments, four grand staterooms (festival halls) occupy the central portion of the palace.

The hall was a splendid apartment; not large but panelled in white-painted wood and with a carved stair-case in one corner.

Palaces were deserted, and the poor man dared at length, unreproved, intrude into the splendid apartments, whose very furniture and decorations were an unknown world to him.

The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for the two brothers, and even insisted that they should sit at table with him.

Now she is looking for a splendid apartment on Central Park West so that her children will be comfortable entertaining.

Emanoel Araujo, a sculptor from Bahia, lives in a splendid apartment surrounded by contemporary folk art.

He would sit in Frank's splendid apartment with the Louisville Slugger and the dressmaker's dummy and he'd think and think all day.

Gormlaith, with a full retinue of servants, was installed in a splendid new apartment built for her a short distance from Brian's private chamber.

So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and splendid apartments, only the one room where the picture was he did not open.