There were many stores, two-story buildings, saloons, gambling houses, shops, gilded palaces, lodging houses, and eating houses.

Though it's no gilded palace it's there I would be.

The towering turbans the models wore gave a clue as to where the clothes would be comfortable: in gilded palaces of the East.

Then the little poor cottage shall be more commended than the gilded palace.

I feel he would regard many of Michelin's selections as what he calls "gilded palaces" (which none of them really are).

A bloodthirsty dictator who tortured and murdered his people, and sacrificed their well-being to his gilded palaces, is locked up.

But when bored or frustrated, W. reserves the right to be boorish - no matter if the setting is a gilded palace or a Texas gorge.

No thank you Cherie - you can go back to your gilded palace now and sneer at us plebs who wish for nothing better for you than that you should be confined to the dustbin of history.

The Russian Tea Room, that gilded palace of caviar, vodka and blinis that closed during the summer after a multimillion-dollar renovation failed to draw customers, may soon have a new life - as a golf museum.