1.   Next to the hotel is an old colonial mansion, set back on a rise above the rubbish-strewn beach.

2.   Before the Shining Path, it was famous for its churches, colonial mansions and markets.

3.   After three days of hanging, draping and lighting, volunteers transformed the colonial mansion into a house glowing with holiday cheer.

4.   But many of the homes, including sweeping brick colonial mansions, could not be carried.

5.   I checked into the Hotel Casa del Balam, a former colonial mansion.

6.   I was the only guest that night in the old colonial mansion, which has five rooms with antique furnishings.

7.   Mrs. Kumaratunga lives in a heavily guarded colonial mansion, Temple Trees, that sits amid palms and flaming bougainvillea on Galle Road.

8.   The astonishing news crackled over the radios in this crumbling town of faded colonial mansions and rolling green hills.

9.   The colonial town square was established by Spanish settlers, and the many colonial mansions, with arches covered with bougainvillea, give Tequisquiapan a village charm.

10.   The Skakels lived in a sprawling French colonial mansion in the posh Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Conn., one of the wealthiest areas in the country.