• The site of the London search was a basement apartment in an ornate building in a wealthy neighborhood.

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  • The white-painted interior was adorned with three ornate chandeliers and a series of simple paintings illustrating the life of Christ.

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  • There were giant houseboats with pigs and cows on board, ornate steamboats with a penchant for exploding, and a prevailing ethos of vigilante justice.

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  • The Petscheks were among the wealthiest families in Czechoslovakia, and the mansion was lavish: long curving corridors, ornate bathrooms, a swimming pool in the basement.

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  • Inside, he examined ornate gold icons as a priest read a blessing, according to the AFP news agency.

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  • She appeared in court wearing white pants and a long ornate gray jacket.

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  • She appeared in court wearing white pants and a long ornate gray jacket, but was not accompanied by West or any members of her famous family.

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  • The ornate plaster ceiling of a room, designed to look like the interior of an imperial Chinese palace, was covered by multiple coats of paint, forming a deposit more than a centimeter thick.

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  • To me, an ornate primping station seems a little, well, vain: delovely in theory but, like a certain over-the-top sequined dress that hangs unworn in my closet, hard to pull off in practice.

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  • The British Library also holds younger copies of the Koran, among them a richly ornate one written entirely in gold, which was commissioned by Sultan Baybars in Cairo in the early 14th Century.

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  • They set up literacy classes, and tried to teach Haitians the need to manage even their small incomes: that instead of paying for an ornate wooden coffin, a cardboard one would be perfectly satisfactory.

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  • Simon Jackson, an Australian designer who made his name catering to expats and local tycoons, did the last renovation in 1993 when the kids were teenagers, changing what had been a Spanish-style villa with a Japanese garden into a neoclassical home, adding some ornate touches and the outdoor pool, but in a "California" palette of creams and yellows.

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  • Mr Lassalle began his fast in March, sitting almost daily on a sofa in an ornate room of the National Assembly in Paris, to protest against what he considered to be a relocation plan by Toyal, a Japanese-owned manufacturer of aluminium pigment.

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  • "A lot of them were a little more ornate, old European style, even though they were new, " she said.

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  • It was carrying a cargo of ornate ceramics from Portugal and Italy when it sank south of Kinlochbervie harbour in the north west Highlands.

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  • The small, soft-spoken painter has turned the house he grew up in, an old four-story building with ornate wooden balconies, into a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis.

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  • The ornate pool was transformed from a rock quarry in 1923, and includes decorative canals, fountains, waterfalls and coral caves, while palm trees and porticos provide some welcome shade.

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  • On the north side of the square is the ornate National Gallery , with a huge collection that includes works by Leonardo, Botticelli and Monet, as well as Van Gogh's iridescent Sunflowers.

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  • The tallest and most ornate tower is based on a bell tower in Florence by Giotto, the smaller octagonal tower is based on a tower in Verona and the smallest tower represents a Tuscan tower as seen in San Samignano.

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  • He prefers simple robes to ornate pontifical attire, and shunned a papal car after his election to travel with his electors by bus.

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  • Check this out, in the ornate, marble lobby there is a sign that reads: Dear Guests: Wearing Bath Robes in All Public Areas is Forbidden.

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  • The Sistine Chapel and its ornate ceiling by Michelangelo are normally a must-see for tourists in Rome, but it was closed to the public beginning Tuesday afternoon to allow for preparations to take place.

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  • The painting, dated to around 1637, shows Princess Mary at the age of five or six, wearing a rich silver-laced gown and pearl head-dress, standing before a classical column and ornate gold damask curtain.

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  • French designer Ruhlmann (1879-1933) was known for using ivory and rare woods like Macassar ebony to make pieces with streamlined shapes and simple curves a departure from the ornate, florid carvings of the Art Nouveau style that predated him.

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  • Despite its lack of 3-D, lack of a known animation studio and ornate animation Rango should top the box office this weekend.

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  • The Queen plays a central ceremonial role in the state opening of Parliament, when she travels by ornate horse-drawn coach to the House of Lords to read out a speech prepared by ministers unveiling details of their legislative plans.

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  • On a wall of the mosque was some ornate writing in Arabic.

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  • As president of the legislature of Massachusetts, old John rebelled against the British crown and affixed a signature to the Declaration of Independence ornate and large enough that King George III couldn't miss it.

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