Will Melanie be able to adjust to life in a sumptuous house filled with pictures of Peter's dead wife?

Large schools with acres of grounds, playing fields, and recreation areas are interspersed with sumptuous houses set in leafy lanes.

It was a landscape of wide-open ways and sumptuous houses sheer onto the streets, backing onto shared gardens.

Up and up we climbed, passing one sumptuous house after another.

But the formula does work, not least because it so successfully creates an idyllic world of eternal sunshine, preserved countryside and sumptuous houses.

Then there are sumptuous historic houses, like the Hotel de Talleyrand in Paris.

It is described in Iron Council as a place of "wide-open ways and sumptuous houses sheer onto the streets, backing on to shared gardens".

On rare occasions the militia would raid the corrupt, sumptuous houses of the red light zone.

I was expecting them to take me to prison, but instead I wound up at a sumptuous private house.

He then built in its place a new and even more sumptuous house there for his wife.