19 Metaphors for villa

The bright suburban villa was no longer an airy castle, perhaps never to be realized; it was a delightful certainty.

Those numberless villas, of which we shall speak in another chapter, were homes of luxury and magnificence, not centres of agricultural industry.

The villa was untouchedthe wind, setting the other way, and the thick walls of the tower, had saved it.

"The priests who witnessed this blood-curdling scene trembled like the weak reed before the gale, waiting their turn to be tortured, but God willed that cruel Villa should be content with the butchery perpetrated upon unhappy Sr. Soto.

That "submarine villa" was an object of amusement when we passed it in our walks for many a long day.

The villa of the Lust in Rust was a low, irregular edifice, in bricks, whitewashed to the color of the driven snow, and in a taste that was altogether Dutch.

Achilles and Merlin must be replaced by Uncle Jim and an undergraduate; and so the Villa is the author of "Rider Haggard," "Hugh Conway," "Robert Buchanan," and the author of "The House on the Marsh.

All this country to the south was beginning to be covered with luxurious and convenient houses; in the colder and mountainous parts of central Italy the villa was still the farm-house of the older useful type, of which the object was the cultivation of olive and vine, now coming into fashion, as we have already seen.

[Footnote 394: The villa had once been Sulla's also: and the aristocratic connection gave its owner some trouble.

The word is from the Latin villa, which, together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.

Under its fascinating Castellana the Baroncelli villa became a busy little Court, the scene of constant festivities, gossip, and intrigue.

The definition of the word villa is a country seat; but the reader will ask, how can a country seat be in the midst of a metropolis, or in its brick and mortar confines?

Those numberless villas, of which we shall speak in another chapter, were homes of luxury and magnificence, not centres of agricultural industry.

Achilles and Merlin must be replaced by Uncle Jim and an undergraduate: and so the Villa is the only begotten of Rider Haggard, Hugh Conway, Robert Buchanan, and the author of "The House on the Marsh.

The villa has not time to think, the villa is the working bee.

The white mansions of Tyburnia, Belgravia, South Kensington, and the neat villas of the suburbs are only brickwork, with a thin coat of stucco, which serves the purpose of concealing the real structureoften only too much in need of concealmentwith a material supposed to be a little more sightly, and certainly capable of keeping the weather out rather more effectually than common brickwork would.

Bazelhurst Villa was a quarter of a mile, through the park, behind her; the forest was ahead.

If this villa was where we hope it was, the great road passed at no great distance from it, in the valley between Tusculum and the Mons Albanus; and by following this for some fifty miles to the south-east through Latium, Cicero would strike the river Liris not far from Fregellae, and leaving the road there, would soon arrive at his native place Arpinum, and his ancestral property.

At Ilagan they were given an entertainment and dance, Villa being a skilled hand in this sort of thing, and a few days later he accompanied them to Aparri without allowing them to set foot on land.

19 Metaphors for  villa