Mansion example sentences

In New Delhi, there were to be broad, straight streets lined with sprawling mansions set in the middle of large compounds.a large crowd of weavers emerged from their homes and marched in pairs up to the mansion of their contractor demanding higher wages.The Mughal aristocracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries lived in grand mansions called havelis.Havelis or mansions were interspersed with the far more numerous mud houses of the poor.A map of the mid-nineteenth century showed at least a hundred such havelis, which were large walled compounds with mansions, courtyards and fountains.