The mansion-house of Graden stood in a bleak stretch of country some three miles from the shore of the German Ocean.
The mansion-house was assailed so frequently that a constant guard of soldiers was necessary to defend it from demolition.
The lord-mayor was an anti-Wilkite—the mob attacked the Mansion-house, and broke the windows.
Opposite to the Mansion-house, is the Royal Exchange; a vast detached building of an imposing aspect.
In a large inn, which was itself the mansion-house of a plantation, we found a particularly good dinner.