It was a massive, sprawling place built of polished marble, and he kept a menagerie for his private entertainment.

It is a sprawling, gabled place, with 109 rooms and huge water bills - $27,000 a month, said Alex Madonna, the owner.

But it's just such a sprawling place and it does not have a geographic center.

It was a dark sprawling place with blacked-out windows, good booze, indifferent food, and a rotten reputation.

A vastly sprawling place of bars, and baths, and discrete rooms.

Topsmead is a sprawling place, but most of Connecticut's greens come in smaller, more floral packages.

It's a sprawling place where 200,000 people work and sleep.

It's a sprawling place requiring use of not entirely efficient buses, with a busy through-road.

The restaurant is a sprawling place, with nearly 200 seats over four levels and paintings from the Old Country on the walls.

The country was becoming a sprawling, diverse place too-so why think it unusual for an American family to display some of that diversity?