Estates for the elite

Usage examples of villas.

Alexander, however, instead of yielding to their seditious clamors, showed a just sense of his merit and services, by appointing him his colleague in the consulship, and defraying from his own treasury the expense of that vain dignity: but as was justly apprehended, that if the soldiers beheld him with the ensigns of his office, they would revenge the insult in his blood, the nominal first magistrate of the state retired, by the emperor's advice, from the city, and spent the greatest part of his consulship at his villas in Campania.

The gardens and villas, which exhibited some faint imitation of Italian elegance, would soon be converted into strong castles, the refuge, in time of danger, of the adjacent country: ^184 the produce of the land was applied to purchase arms and horses.

Gronevelt could see the tennis courts, the golf course, the swimming pool, the seven Villas gleaming like Versailles and all flying the Xanadu Hotel flag: forest green field with white doves.

Even some recipients of the Villas made their appearance and were accorded special respect by Cross and Pippi.

These Villas were small palaces, each could sleep six couples in six separate apartments, not merely suites.

The bars of these Villas were stocked with the finest wines and liquors and a box of illegal Havana cigars.

These were Villas where important public men could bring their mistresses or boyfriends, where they could gamble in anonymity.

And for these men, the Villas would be furnished by Gronevelt with the proper beauty.

He could see the flags on the seven Villas flapping, though there was no breeze on the golf course.

He was infuriated by this, but he diverted himself on the plane by scheming how he would get Cross to give him one of his fucking Villas when he visited Vegas again.

The remaining three Villas were occupied by twenty of Lia's men, who would replace the usual security guards.

The ungrateful rumor reached his ears, and induced him to seek the retirement of one of his villas in Campania.

After the payment of the legacies, fourscore villas or farms were added to the Imperial domain.

Tibur or Tivoli has resumed the honors of a city, ^65 and the meaner towns of Albano and Palestrina are decorated with the villas of the cardinals and princes of Rome.

Two rows of balconied pink villas with bright red roofs of terra-cotta extended from each side of the resort’s central hub, a large circular building of heavy stone and thick glass, all the structures overlooking the water, the villas connected by a white concrete path bordered by low-cut shrubbery and lined with ground lamps.