1.   Flanked by waterfalls and duck ponds, the sprawling mansion rises out of the scarecrow-studded cornfields like a mirage.

2.   Newly arrived and wrapped in swaddling clothes, they are taken home to farms, tony townhomes, trailer parks, sprawling mansions, housing projects.

3.   She often sat outside a sprawling southern mansion while her mother toiled inside as a maid, trying to ween the family off of welfare.

4.   She often sat outside a sprawling Southern mansion while her mother toiled inside as a maid, trying to wean the family off welfare.

5.   Soon she has truly become a resident alien, running a brothel concealed in a sprawling old Deep South mansion that masquerades as a mortuary.

6.   The measures effectively shut down the sprawling mansions that have served for decades as fraternity houses in Clinton, a small central New York village just east of Syracuse.

7.   The president can meet privately with anyone in the residence, the Oval Office, the White House theater and numerous crannies of the sprawling mansion.

8.   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.

9.   Williams faces charges in the fatal shooting of a limousine driver at his sprawling mansion.

10.   Williams surrendered Monday to face charges in the fatal shooting of a limousine driver at his sprawling mansion.