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  • Chandeliers and candle sticks on the dining table, give the ‘palace-like’ look and feel.

    Art and Good Taste in A Flat: Turquoise Themed Apartment in Sweden 2009

  • "You mean that now maybe he thinks he can create the spell over the Retreat-the emperor's new palace-like that one at the Palace of the Prophets, but better, so that aging will be slowed even more, so that he and his chosen will live even longer?"

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • Students are apparently happy: Based on student responses, Pomona College placed among the Princeton Review’s list of palace-like dorms.

    The Most Expensive College Dorms 2010

  • They stretched out on either side of a large, palace-like structure, which seemed to dominate the whole group.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Besides animals, the zoo has a "Playland" with amusement rides, set in the shadow of Bangkok's elegant, palace-like Government House.

    Bangkok: 48 Hours With Kids Chawadee Nualkhair 2009

  • Crowned as the arsenal of democracy in World War II, Detroit seemed to have everything going for it -- a strategic location on the Great Lakes waterway, a thriving auto industry, well-paying jobs and the legacy of superb city planning: magnificent avenues and parks, palace-like public buildings, striking commercial architecture and handsome residential housing in dozens of thriving neighborhoods.

    How a City Lost Its Soul 2009

  • Besides animals, the zoo has a "Playland" with amusement rides, set in the shadow of Bangkok's elegant, palace-like Government House.

    48 Hours: On the Town With Kids 2009

  • We can observe how architects tried to free themselves from the mainstream palace-like buildings.

    The Flying Saucer Houses Will be Torn Down 2008

  • Where the old farmhouse had stood with its falling-off kitchen, the top of the hill had been bulldozed flat and a palace-like house with plastic Palladian windows looked out over a vast lawn mowed in herringbone stripes where the Elmslies had pastured their cows.

    Bailey White: 'The Green Bus' 2007

  • That beautiful palace-like setting with all the dark wood?

    Well, My Good Mood Lasted Until I Got To the Check-In Desk.... fastfwd 2007

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