A show-place of show-places, it was not often shown. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She remained in the hall, which to her simply fancy seemed to be the guest-room -- the show-place wherein were arrayed all the household treasures with the frank purpose of parade and dazzlement. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Steep is this mound and scarped, evidently by the hand of man; a deep gorge over which is flung a bridge, separates it, on the south, from a broad swell of open ground called ‘the hill’; of old the scene of many a tournament and feat of Norman chivalry, but now much used as a show-place for cattle, where those who buy and sell beeves and other beasts resort at stated periods. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That show-place on the outskirts just doesn't know what a Terran looks like. ❋ Various, (1973)
The Transkei, show-place of the Bantustan scheme, could well be the first battlefield on which apartheid will be defeated. ❋ Unknown (1964)
For the Land's End is a show-place, and we know what that entails. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It is a favourite show-place, winning perhaps more attention than it deserves in comparison with other places near it; but the rocky and turf-clad headland, with its traces of a far-distant past, is really very beautiful, reaching like a couchant beast into the waves that are sometimes of the purest blue, sometimes white with seething foam. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Wood, that show-place to which all distinguished but valuable visitors are taken. ❋ William Henry Lowe Watson (N/A)
Hôtel du Grand Cerf at Louviers (its catering in this case is none the worse for its being a "show-place," it may be mentioned) where all the theatrical picturesqueness of the imagination may be seen. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This is not a show-place that once was real; it is one of a hundred little agglomerations of the French Middle Ages. ❋ Elise Whitlock Rose (N/A)
The great show-place and excursion from Warminster is Longleat. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)
He had our house built as a sort of show-place, you know, so that prospective builders out there could see how artistic a home could be put up for a moderate sum of money. ❋ Anne Austin (N/A)
This _naïve_, informal chronicle of a visit to Newgate incidentally lets out the fact that the gloomy prison was fast becoming attractive to visitors -- indeed, quite a show-place. ❋ Mrs. E. R. Pitman (N/A)
Highclere Park and Castle form a show-place of the first rank; the park being beyond all praise. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)
This hill was a favourite playground of the children, for it was full of caves and hiding-places; it was in fact the great 'show-place' of the neighbourhood, but the children only thought how delightful it was to play houses in. ❋ Various (N/A)
His uncle had done him well, exceedingly well, and he looked forward to going to the show-place again in the near future. ❋ Unknown (1928)
No show-place in the worldnot even Chambord or the Alhambracould afford a more magical, more ethereal, more enchanting spectacle than this grove of spires, bell-towers, chimneys, weather-cocks, spiral stair-cases; of airy lantern towers that seemed to have been worked with a chisel; of pavilions; of spindle-shaped turrets, all diverse in shape, height, and position. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The "show-place" confidently predicted seemed not to evolve; outside of insane expenditures for heating and bathing and the sanitary care of laundry and food, there were few evidences that the villa was to be magnificent. ❋ Various (1915)
When in reserve our days were mainly spent in or close to the famous wood, which was at that time regarded as the show-place, _par excellence_, of the British front. ❋ Unknown (1914)
