palaces

• Now we hear of him in Spanish palaces, figuring at royal weddings, and adding one more to the countless ribbon-ends that already grace his button-hole; and scarcely has our admiration subsided, when a Mediterranean breeze murmurs sweet tidings of his presence on African shores, taking his coffee with Beys, commanding war-steamers, riving the captive's fetters, and rivetting his claims on his country's gratitude. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• Serene and old-world is the atmosphere surrounding these "palaces"--for some are worthy of this designation--and with their environment of summer sky and glorious landscape they form real oases of that romantic and luxurious character which the foreigner in his fancy has attributed to Mexico, but which he fails to encounter in the newer quarters of the city To treat at much length of the numerous institutions and buildings of the capital would be to fill a volume. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• While Tennyson for the most part stayed in his English homes, singing the beauties of his native land, Browning was a sojourner in Italian palaces and villas, studying men of many races and many times, exploring the subtleties of the human heart. —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
• The windows of all the palaces are all closed and barricaded. —  The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin
• And the palaces are all built for housing the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak and the vilest of the vile. —  A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

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