What is "palatial"

Usage examples of "palatial".

Ewell Darden and his palatial residence in Westchester, suitable storehouse for the Argyle Museum treasures - these were simply the dominant pictures.

Stewart, who erected on its site his palatial wholesale store, which extends along Broadway to Chambers street.

Away from the noisy market section of the city, Regis passed the palatial home of Cassius, the spokesman of Bryn Shander.

While rich travelers stayed at the large hostels in the city or at palatial inns along the silvery beaches, the Inn of the Dented Helm, owned by Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.

Though the move to the Domus Publica took place the next day, Pompeia had been fully acquainted with the new rules before she and her handful of personal servants set eyes upon her palatial suite upstairs.

He walked about the courtyard smoking, looking sometimes on the solemn front of the old palatial mansion, and sometimes breathing a white film up to the stars, impatient, like the enamoured Aladdin, watching in ambuscade for the emergence of the Princess Badroulbadour.

Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.

From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.

LOUIS CLAYMORE unquestionably suffered from boredom in these palatial premises on Balboa Key, which for Larry Gray and Jane Verril was rapidly losing the charm that gave it its sub-title of Paradise Isle.

And I was beginning to have revised thoughts about my good pal Bauhaus, who had set me up in less than palatial splendor.

Earl of Hendon and his only son and heir, that Devlin chose to reside here, in Brook Street, rather than beneath that palatial paternal roof.

The mansion-house of Toledo, in addition to some palatial halls which are of historic renown, has several suites of rooms used from time to time by great personages passing through or visiting the city.

The next morning, a plump Emirates financier, in his white gown, vest, kufi cap, and fastidiously trimmed beard, left his palatial home in Dubai to travel downtown for his meeting with the FBI.

You see I am in brilliant Paris, in a palatial hotel, enjoying all the luxuries wealth can procure, and Madame Millefleur is my companion.

Away down in the valley is the palatial family mansion of Pien, one of the wealthiest yeomen in the province.