1.   And in the summer, when the mosquitoes swarmed over the plantations, spreading malaria, the white owners left for their elegant mansions and gardens on higher ground.

2.   A century ago, it was the site of the Mosse Palais, the elegant mansion of a prominent German Jewish publishing family.

3.   But it does avoid poorer neighborhoods, which tend to be dry, preferring the wet, leafy gardens of elegant old mansions.

4.   Cherished French and Italian marble sculptures were pried off tombs that resemble elegant funerary mansions, expressions of the unique New Orleans way of death.

5.   Few columnists also have a title that comes accompanied by guards, staff, servants, official responsibilities, free travel and an elegant mansion.

6.   For Communist Party big shots there are beautiful neighborhoods like Miramar, with its elegant mansions and gorgeous gardens.

7.   Most nations cannot afford elegant mansions with elaborate security systems and well-armed sentries for their embassies.

8.   Somehow Forbes, surrounded by Faberge eggs and other rare objects in his elegant mansions and yachts, has missed these unhappy consequences.

9.   The Colonnade Town House, near the elegant mansions that line Regents Canal, is close to the Underground and not far from Paddington Station.

10.   The site was an elegant mansion on the west side of Beijing.