Chapter 42 Lady Baldock does not send a Card to Phineas Finn

Author(s):  
Anthony Trollope
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Lady Baldock’s house in Berkeley Square was very stately,—a large house with five front windows in a row, and a big door, and a huge square hall, and a fat porter in a round-topped chair;—but it was dingy and dull, and could not have...

Archaeologia ◽  
1779 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
West

On sinking the cellars for a large house at the upper part of Church-street in this town, now building by Daniel Wilson, esq. on the site of which stood some very old houses (formerly called the Judge's lodgings), was discovered, at about six feet below the present surface of the street, a supposed Roman burying-place; as burnt wood, bones, and ashes, broken paterae, urns, Roman brick, gutter tiles, coins, horns of animals, &c. were found; also, two fragments of thick walls, at about five yards distant from each other, in a direction from front to back, and seeming to continue under Church-street, be-twixt which were several large stones, some of which were hewn. By this it may be conjectured, to have been a vault to deposit the ashes of the dead, and fallen-in, or pulled down, at some time, as there were found, within the walls, several pieces of urns, an earthen sepulchral lamp entire (the end of the spout where the wick came out was burnt black), broken paterae, burnt bones, ashes, a large human skull, Roman coins, &c. also, at the North-end a well, filled with hewn stones, but not meddled with.


1972 ◽  
Vol 13 (1a) ◽  
pp. 1-92
Author(s):  
Walther R. Volbach

In 1912 Richard Strauss carefully looked around for a theatre he could entrust with the première of his Ariadne auf Naxos. In the preceding season Der Rosenkavalier had had its first performance at the Dresden Court Opera; yet, for all the brilliant and eminently successful production, Strauss excluded this opera house from his considerations, primarily because he found it too large for the intimate new work. The small Residenz Theater, part of the Bavarian Court Theatres in Munich, would have suited him, but for a number of reasons no agreement could be reached with its general manager. About that time the new Court Theatre in Stuttgart opened its doors. It consisted of two theatres, the large house mainly for operas and classical dramas and a well-equipped little one, a veritable gem for comic operas and drawing room plays. Strauss considered this Kleine Haus, as it was called, ideal for Ariadne.


1955 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-262
Author(s):  
William J. Shackelford

In the Summer of 1949 an archaeological; field group, sponsored by the University of Texas, excavated a large house structure at the Polvo site (57D2-3) in western Texas. The previous summer J. Charles Kelley had excavated 2 structures at this site, which he reported in 1949. The site itself he identified as a component of the Bravo Valley aspect.The Polvo site is located in southern Presidio County, Texas, some 8 miles south of the junction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos, in what is referred to as the “La Junta” region of the Big Bend. The site lies about one mile to the southwest of the modern village of Redford, at the edge of the old Mexican pueblito Polvo. Physiographically, the site is located in the Redford Vajley, through which the Rio Grande flows into the Canon Colorado. Midway in the valley, an arroyo, known locally as the Arroyo Bayo Nuevo, enters the river.


1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. V. Luce

The site of ancient Dystos in south-central Euboea deserves to be better known. The imposing circuit of the city wall with its main gate and eleven towers bears comparison with the fort at Eleutherae or the walls of Messene or Thasos. The numerous remains of private houses are of considerable interest for the history of Greek domestic architecture.


Author(s):  
Leo Tolstoy
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Nekhlyudov meant to rearrange the whole of his external life: to send away his servants, let his large house, and move into lodgings; but Agrafena Petrovna pointed out that it was useless to change anything before the winter. No one would rent a town...


Nature ◽  
1875 ◽  
Vol 11 (275) ◽  
pp. 272-272
Author(s):  
C. B.
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Author(s):  
Charles Dickens
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Tellson’s Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris,* was in a wing of a large house, approached by a court-yard and shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to a...


2006 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel R. Franks ◽  
Anna Dornhaus ◽  
Charlotte S. Best ◽  
Elizabeth L. Jones

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