FOR as long as anyone can recall, chess enthusiasts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have played on large streetside chessboards in the shadows of the stately buildings of Harvard Yard.
His voice was described as bass and stately, though it was often light and fast, gaining authority from the clipped fall of the sentences rather than the timbre.
Squat, homely, dwarfed by the stately oaks and poplars nearby and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love.
The swans move toward the shores in a stately glide，their tall heads proud and unafraid.
Now in “The Stranger’s Child”, we start out observing the relationship of two men, one from a suburb, the other from a stately pile.
Pere Armand David is best known for discovering the giant panda and introducing pere David's deer to stately parks in Europe. But he also noted 772 bird species, collecting 470 of them.
It crops up everywhere from Russia's English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani newspapers to America's stately National Public Radio.
It was anchored by an old, once-stately mansion that was cut-up into cheap apartments, and was surrounded by a sad assembly of rundown trailers and a couple white-washed shack homes.
From the stately avenues of New Delhi, such worries are viewed as hysterical.
The Conrad, which opened in December, has already achieved a stately pre-eminence because it is the only predominantly villa property in Hainan, but it still feels very new.
The hacienda of El Huique, Chile's nearest equivalent to a British stately home, was so badly damaged that plans to restore it have yet to be drawn up.
The stately Historical Museum, which faces st. Basil's across Red Square, exhibits the glories of Russia's past.
A visit to this city will acquaint you with stately castles, exquisite palaces, museums, zoos and some of the best universities of the world.
At last Puss in Boots arrived at a stately castle.
They are graceful, stately, inspiring ----- in calm, sunlight seas.
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