On the other hand, the terraced and splendidly landscaped grounds include an enormous 32-foot by 72-foot swimming pool and the surroundings are breathtaking.

In Shaanxi Province, China, a farmer plies a pick ax on dry-as-dust terraced ground near the Yellow River, prevented by the lack of an irrigation system from using its water.

Now it appears to be past its prime, although the terraced grounds are still gorgeous and attract a bevy of tropical birds.

Luckily, I live in a house on steeply terraced ground.

Marietta stands on terraced, landscaped grounds with two contemporary outbuildings: a brick law office and a stone and brick root cellar/harness storage room.

It was set on terraced ground at a valley-side, and was built with rectangular mud-brick houses that accommodated a square main room and a smaller anteroom.

Nor could he walk the terraced grounds.

It wasn't that the house itself was so big, she said, but that the sweeping, terraced grounds, with beds of exotic evergreens, needed "very, very expensive" manicuring.

Barely a hundred pounds, her skin pale, but her makeup impeccable, she was perched on the cushions of the window seat overlooking the terraced grounds of the Gillette estate.

He put his arm around her shoulders and steered her to a red-brick path that took them in a zigzag pattern through the terraced grounds.