They had taken a little villa in Sils on the mountain, which they had seen advertised for the summer months.

An Englishman aims at this effect even in the little patches under the windows of a suburban villa, and achieves it on a larger scale in a tract of many acres.

Monsieur Hayle arrived here some five days ago, and has taken possession of a charming villa some ten miles from the city.

It was quite different from the Deauville of to-day, which is charming, with quantities of pretty villas and gardens and sports of all kinds, but the sea is so far off one has to take quite a long walk to get to it, and the mornings on the beach and the expeditions to Trouville in the afternoon across the ferry, to do a little shopping in the rue de Paris, are things of the past.

Great military roads were built, which were a marvel of engineering skill; canals were dug; sails whitened the sea; commerce was prosperous; the arts of Greece were introduced, and its literature also; elegant villas lined the shores of the Mediterranean; pictures and statues were indefinitely multiplied,everything indicated an increase of wealth and culture.

There are several neat villas in the neighbourhood of these promenades, and there are cafés and restaurants for those who chuse to refresh themselves.

It was a road of trim semi-detached villas, each with a well-kept front garden and neatly- curtained windows.

It was a road of trim semi-detached villas, each with a well-kept front garden and neatly- curtained windows.

The Carmelite Church, on the left of the road leading to Mount Olivet, where several pleasant villas are situated, is now closed, the "order" having been dispersed two years ago; so nothing is to be seen there of interest except the sculpture representing the "miracle of the loaves" over the door.

Approaching Biarritz, however, the handsome villas and their gardens fully deserve the epithet which cannot in justice be applied to the road.

afterwards the property of Madame La Princesse de Conti, now the residence of M. de Puy: at the foot is the village of Lucienne, surrounded by numerous villas: among the most remarkable is the residence of General Comte Campon.]

Then she had wished to see the lovely villa that came back in the pictures of her dreams, and she had been driven out into the country according to her desire.

"Fludyer" was a poem to Sir Charles Fludyer on the devastation effected on his marine villa at Felixstowe by the encroachments of the sea.

For himself he constructed four splendid villas, at Careggi, Fiesole, Caffaggiolo, and Trebbio, and in the city the magnificent palace in the Via Larga, now called the Riccardi.

A rumour had been spread that, during the terrible unfolding of that great "flower of flame," he had mounted to the roof of his distant villa, and delighted with the beauty of the spectacle, exulting in the safe sensation of a new excitement, had dressed himself in theatrical attire, and sung to his harp a poem on the burning of Troy.

In my time a man of that class was kept at arm's-length, was relegated to his proper placethe back hall; but now"he gazed angrily at the paper"here is a whole column describing Sir Stephen Orme's new 'palatial villa,' and giving an account of his achievements, the success of his great undertakings.

Lucullus, that most ostentatious of patricians, and autocrat of bons-vivants, had a mountain cut through in the neighborhood of Naples, so as to open a canal, and bring up the sea and its fishes to the centre of the gardens of his sumptuous villa.

You could not possibly make a "stuck-up" house, or a smart villa, or a modern family house of one that had a roof like that.

The house No. 10 Spence Street, in which for sixteen years the brothers and sister lived together, is a modest semi-detached villa in a short street running off the Dalkeith Road, in one of the southern suburbs of the city.

He discovers that all the evil passions intrude (like pale Death) into the comfortable villa as impartially as into the hovels at Aldeburgh.

It was a road of trim semi-detached villas, each with a well-kept front garden and neatly- curtained windows.

There is a club in Budapestat once a club and a luxurious villa almost too crowded with rugs and fine furniture.

Georgina spent August and September with Lady Di, at the Marchioness of Carisbroke's delightful villa in the Isle of Wight, and Sir George kept his yacht at Cowes all the time, and was in constant attendance upon his fiancée.

Within that mobile villa gay We shall not choose, though gipsies may, Through country lanes and woods to stray, Not likely.

Of the mock villas that have been "put up" in this quarter, we must speak with forbearance.