Fonthill Abbey
Britishnoun
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His magnificent retreat at Cintra in Portugal, his vast Fonthill Abbey and Lansdowne Hill estates in England, were only appanages of his sumptuous state.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
He then began building Fonthill Abbey, shrouding his proceedings in the greatest mystery and surrounding his estate with a wall twelve feet high and seven miles long, guarded by chevaux-de-frise to keep out intruders.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
So infinite is the variety of Vathek in scenery and in temper that it seems like its wealthy, eccentric, author secluded in Fonthill Abbey, to dwell apart in defiant, splendid isolation.
From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
In the smoking-room is to be seen a remarkable chimney-piece of carved marble, which once stood in Fonthill Abbey, the house of the author of Vathek.
From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust
When my grandfather Westminster died in the autumn of 1869 he left the reversion of Fonthill Abbey to Uncle Michael.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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