Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

After ten years, he extended the brewery, adding a grand building as his own private residence, where he entertained other local figures.

The Chief of Naval Operations liked the house so much that in 1923 he took over the house as his own official residence.

He was hosted by a colonel in Turkish Military Intelligence named Ali Cetiner in his own residence, who could not arrange alternative accommodation for his stay at the time.

Every family or rental agency has to pay a replacement tax to support these shelters, or alternatively own a personal shelter in their place of residence.

Jørgen seems to have taken matters into his own hands and took the child away to his own residence, Tosterup Castle.

Although the King was always received with open arms by several befriended manufacturers, he needed his own residence in Tilburg.

In 1974 he went to Los Angeles to work on a script ( never produced ) with Sam Shepard, and to his own surprise took up residence there.

This was a hugely unpopular acquisition, particularly with some factions of the nobility who already disliked her, but also with a growing percentage of the population who felt shocked that a French queen might own her own residence, independent of the king.

Smuggled out of his residence at night, he escaped to Stanleyville, where he attempted to set up his own government and army.

Johnson's early influence as a practicing architect was his use of glass ; his masterpiece was the Glass House ( 1949 ) he designed as his own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, a profoundly influential work.

Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.

The Bloomsbury Campus also contains eight Halls of Residence and Senate House, which houses the Senate House Library, the chancellor's official residence and previously housed the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, now part of University College London ( UCL ) and housed in its own new building.

Later she returned to her own residence in the Spring Lotus Chamber.

All of the residence halls with the exception of Caldwell are co-ed by wing, with each wing having its own bathroom.

Queen Catherine then made Chenonceau her own favorite residence, adding a new series of gardens.

In a strictly matrilineal system, especially where residence is also matrilocal, a man will exercise guardianship rights not over the children he fathers but exclusively over his sisters ' children, who are viewed as ' his own flesh '.

He laid out 26 half-acre ( 2, 000 m² ) lots around 1741, and constructed his own residence, Glen Burnie.

Some of these were merely agricultural estates with a single foreign monk in residence to supervise things, others were rich foundations in their own right ( e. g. Lewes Priory which was a daughter of Cluny and answered to the abbot of that great French house ).

Until then each residence had its own septic tank.

Powell Grover's group lived their first year in an abandoned log cabin located in Section 11 of present-day Homer Township said to be the former residence of Potawatomi native Chief Ne-au-to-beer-saw while the settlers built their own cabins.

Soon after the survey was completed, John Jones selected a lot for his residence, and on September 4, 1804, with his own hands he felled the first tree that marked the site of his future home.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

That world was in scale with my own smallness.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.