Sentences with phrase «century house sits»

Built in 1912, this stately post-Victorian early 20th century house sits on the corner of Bayo Vista and Fairmount Avenues in Oakland's Piedmont Avenue neighborhood, just blocks from the renowned shopping and dining on Piedmont Avenue.

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But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

A very long sitting With an unparalleled love of politics, Winston Churchill served for almost 64 years in the House of Commons, longer than any other 20th century MP.

Her two predecessors Viscountess St Davids and the 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, who had been ennobled in the first half of the 20th century, had died before women were allowed to sit in the House of Lords.

For over a century, the dark and forbidding Hill House has sat alone and abandoned... or so it seemed.

American Horror Story: The Complete First Season Rated TV - MA Available on DVD and Blu - ray I sat down to watch two, maybe three episodes of this new FX horror series on a rainy Saturday and thirteen hours later, upon finishing it, I couldn't believe how engaged I was with this innovative mini-series about a family living in a house known for dozens of grizzly murders that took place over the last century.

We sat in our small London house saying to ourselves that we really should go and see it, but we'd just got back from our honeymoon, and there were things to do, thank you cards to write, jobs that we shouldn't really take any more time off from - and as a result we frittered away the opportunity to see first - hand one of the most momentous events of the 20th century.

Housed inside a revived 19th - century Kontorhaus, which sits directly on the waterfront, this part - mansion part - warehouse structure plays host to a glass conservatory with a sliding roof, among other stunning architectural highlights.

Located in County Cork, Ireland, the luxury Castlemartyr Resort consists of a grand 17th century country manor house that sits adjacent to the ruins of an 800 - year - old - castle.

The Lyndon House Bed & Breakfast sits in a home that went through multiple restorations and reconstructions over the last century.

Sitting alone in the eighteenth - century interior of a surviving Huguenot house in the shadow of Hawksmoor's Christ Church in Spitalfields, London, we see the artist writing a poignant letter to a lost love.

Their upcoming acquisition of 20th Century Fox, meanwhile, will sit nicely next to Pixar in the House of...

Their upcoming acquisition of 20th Century Fox, meanwhile, will sit nicely next to Pixar in the House of Mouse's trophy cabinet.

A rarely used sitting room in the main house, where the furniture is covered in muslin sheets and an antique mirror keeps cold air from entering through the fireplace; the entryway of the house where Del Roscio now stays when he is in Gaeta, with a chair by Arne Jacobsen, 18th - century Neapolitan floor tiles and a poster for a Twombly show at Gagosian Gallery from 2008, framed with a vintage Del Roscio find.

Mary Magdalene sits reading a religious work, dressed as a modern woman might be in 15th - century Flanders, in the kind of room you would see in a palace or rich merchant's house, with solid wooden furniture and a view of a river going through green fields outside the window.

A German 17th — century carved - wood skull, a recent sculpture by Enrico David, and a 19th - century Tibetan ritual vessel sit atop a table that Robert Adam made for Apsley House, the Palladian manse he designed in the 1770s that later became home to the Duke of Wellington, who is said to have replaced the stone top of Adam's table with granite he brought back from his campaign against Napoleon in Egypt.

The National's own musical pair, of ladies standing and sitting at the virginal, are joined in trio by The Guitar Player from Kenwood House; alongside these will be 17th - century sheet music and a selection of instruments, all there to encourage us to meditate on the meaning of music to the Delftish master in the Dutch Golden Age.

Originally intended to house an equestrian monument, the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square sat empty for over a century.

In his recent work, Walker's interest in light — both real and projected — required him to sit in the dark in The Haining, a large 18th - century house in Scotland, the country of the artist's birth and where he continues to work.

The Jacobean house dates from the 16th century and sits in beautiful countryside.

A restored 19th - century lodge house in Southwest London, including open - plan sitting room / library / music room, kitchen - diner, playroom, cloakroom, utility room, four bedrooms (two en - suite), dressing room and bathroom.

A grade II listed 18th - century Cotswolds stone house, comprising sitting room, dining room, kitchen / breakfast room, cloakroom, utility room, study, five bedrooms (three en suite) and bathroom.

This 17th - century house in the Cotswolds features a sitting room, family room, dining room, kitchen / breakfast room, cloakroom, utility room, five bedrooms (two en suite) and a bathroom..