| 单词 | manor house |
| 例句 | “I must go now,” Mrs. Derby said suddenly, looking nervously toward the manor house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped the car in front of a small building with white pillars like those of an old plantation manor house, got out and opened the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as I decided to speak to him, I saw the steward and the bailiff emerge from the manor house, along with men from the village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The shoe poet had promised that today we would find the manor house he had known. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “At a village north of here, I’m not sure which, a boy went mad. After robbing the manor house, he killed a priest.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In the manor house, which was paved with tomblike slabs, the sun was never seen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Beyond, he could see the manor house against a dark forest which crowned the hills far, far away. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The manor house was way out in the country, with a big farm next door. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z On a low hill, not far away, I spied a manor house. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “This was...the basement for a manor house, built in later Greek times.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As for the steward and the stranger, they remounted their horses and retreated to the manor house. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Given our father’s characteristic air of superiority, I secretly expected him to live in a manor house surrounded by grounds and serviced by a liveried staff. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually we emerged from the forest, and the road became a path leading up a vast lawn to a huge manor house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “But that would take me by the manor house,” I said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A handsome manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive, lights glinting in the diamond-paned downstairs windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the distance, a large manor house sat on a loaf of frozen earth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had a small racing stable and managed a little racecourse about four miles from the manor house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z No lights came from the village, but some gleamed in the manor house. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Even now, fifty years later, the smell of oil lamps always makes me think of the manor house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Our house outside London had been sold, so we went to stay for a while in the lovely old manor house where my father had grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside the manor house there was always a faint smell from the oil lamps that were lit every evening—for there was no electricity. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z We made our way around the back of the manor house and entered through a snow-covered garden hedge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The manor house itself was very old, too. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z After his lunch with Alan Blunt and Mrs. Jones, he had been moved out of the manor house and into a crude wooden hut a few miles away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Kinshasa residents with money lived like colonists in a hostile land, shuttered into manor houses with guards stationed in front. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Just beyond the iron-gated entrance, about a football field's length away, stood a large two-story manor house surrounded by a park and garden. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Instead of owning a manor house and servants, Daddy lived in a trailer park on the outskirts of a town that was itself the outskirts of town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is conveniently situated on one comer of the village square, a rather charming ivy-covered manor house capable of housing, I would suppose, thirty or so guests. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But as I watched, I saw two horses with riders emerge from the manor house. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Near the manor house, there was another two-story building where there were bathrooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Inside the two-story manor house there were twelve rooms, some of which had been converted to better serve the school. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel had her own manor house near the City and her own housekeeper there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The note you left in the kitchen at the manor house. I took it.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Opposite the manor house, across a road, was the mill. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z All he said, however, was “With your mother gone you’re required to deliver your ox to the manor house tomorrow. It will serve as the death tax.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z From their bed and breakfast in Leintwardine, the director, his producer and art director toured the Shropshire area viewing local manor houses, thumbing the Yellow Pages for gardens to visit, asking locals what to see. 'A full English every morning': how UK food and weather inspires Japanese anime directors 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z A hotel that feels like a Victorian manor house, with rooms starting at $160. Scotland’s northeastern scenery circuit — 500 miles of sheep, history and whisky 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z On a summer evening in 1994, he appeared to me in the attic of an old manor house on the campus of a small college in the Pacific Northwest. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Marcus Sedgwick Photograph: unknown A gruesome secret hidden in an abandoned manor house, an intense friendship between two teenage girls, a village of crumbling graveyards and deserted churches, grisly experiments investigating the afterlife ... Marcus Sedgwick: 'There is almost nothing you can't tackle in a teenage novel' 2010-07-16T13:56:00Z An English manor house is not a war zone, but Kate behaves otherwise. In ‘The Diplomat,’ Keri Russell Shows Her Good Side 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z When he died in 1872, his manor house was so crammed with papers and books that it took a century to sell it all off. A Book Lover’s Haven Turns 100 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z There, she discovers an abandoned manor house that springs to life to reveal the beautiful, princess-like Marnie, Anna’s spirit guide to a more glamorous existence. 'Women are realistic, men idealistic': Studio Ghibli on why a director's gender matters 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Set inside the chilly walls of an English manor house just after World War II, Mr. Cameron’s slim but emotionally rich sixth novel unfolds, at first, like a mystery. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z A Bentley in a rundown housing estate, a Kia on the gravel forecourt of the manor house, try to move away from the classic brochure shots associated with certain brands. Top tips: cars 2011-01-28T18:06:33Z Within this magic perimeter, a stolid brick Colonial Revival manor house sits on a rise. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z It was inspired by the 1985 blockbuster National Gallery of Art show “The Treasure Houses of Britain,” which brought 17 period rooms and 700 items from Britain’s most famous manor houses to the nation’s capital. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Her childhood in the rural manor house, I tell her, reminds me of some idyllic children's book by Dodie Smith, or E Nesbit. Anjelica Huston: 'I find extreme characters irresistible' 2011-07-21T20:00:01Z This massive manor house about two and a half hours northeast of London belongs to the marquess of Cholmondeley, an avid collector of work by the American light artist James Turrell. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The elevated position of the manor house affords vistas of meadows, lakes, and woodlands beyond a verdant, manicured lawn. A Rare Look at Bletchingdon Park 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Whoever first said that probably had a drafty manor house that was always chilly. California Cabernet Sauvignon, From Beyond Napa Valley 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Even Sesame Street is about to do "Upside Downton Abbey", described as "a chaotic manor house where gravity is inverted, with Big Bird and Cookie Monster trying to maintain order". Top TV spoofs: 'Don't I know you from Lark Pies To Cranchesterford?' 2012-10-11T14:27:05Z The current clubhouse is the 1870 family mansion, a brick manor house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fairways Where Golf Becomes the City Game 2011-04-07T20:59:26Z “The Murder of Santa Claus” is set in an English manor house at Christmas of 1939. For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Once I was finished with my worksheet, I met with my therapist, Rebecca, in her office in the heart of the manor house. I walked away from my Pentecostal faith to live my own life — and nearly lost myself 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z DEVON, England — Medieval manor houses often come with ghosts, and Dartington — a 14th-century estate in rural Devon — no doubt has its share. A Summer Music School for Stars, Amateurs and Students 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Dating back to 1685, it is one of the country’s oldest wine estates, elegant and inviting with its manor house, rows of oaks and vast selection of wines. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Cape Town 2011-10-27T19:11:06Z Only 35 feet separate the slave quarters from the Royall family’s manor house at this one-time 500-acre farm north of Boston. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z And the interior of the manor house, devised by set designer Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams and dominated by a jagged, soaring staircase, attests to the luxe iciness of Regina’s household. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Sharpe’s garish and rambling manor house resembles the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland more than an actual English domicile of any vintage. “Evil Dead” meets “Jane Eyre” in Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak,” a lurid meta-Gothic ghost story 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Set in a 17th-century volcanic rock manor house once used for winemaking, the White’s lobby and terrace opens to dramatic views of the Atlantic Ocean. Hotel Review: Sleek Minimalism in the Azores 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The conference took place in the Medieval Hall of Salisbury Cathedral and featured nine speakers, on subjects ranging from “construction rites” in Romania to dead animals found inside manor houses in the British Midlands. Witch Houses of the Hudson Valley 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z We found a Greene and Greene–style manor house in Santa Monica four blocks from the boardwalk. My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The set for Act I gives us an economical view of the farmer James’s manor house, but the versions of Scottish attire are both garish and twee. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The white guests sipped their drinks on the portico of the manor house as African-American field hands bent to their labors. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z In his director’s note, Mr. Haneke asked this question rhetorically of his production’s Don Alfonso: “Why has he had his beautiful old manor house ‘modernized?’ ” Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z There are many fancy hotels around here but this 18th-century manor house is stylish yet homely, not flash. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Only seven miles from the city of Newcastle lies the village of Washington, with its 12th-century manor house, built by the de Wessyngton family. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways The eagerly awaited third installment of “The Crown” debuts Sunday on Netflix, and much will be familiar: the exacting historical detail, the sumptuous interiors of palaces and manor houses. ‘The Crown’ Executes a Peaceful Palace Coup 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Venturing forward to the early 20th century, Clark now turns her attention to the rarefied world of a fictional British manor house called Ellinghurst. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The group will meet regularly at a residential manor house in the four-part series, which will "explore society's emotional, cultural and spiritual attitudes around death ... as well as the practicalities of dealing with a death". Channel 4 to air 'jet black' police drama by Shameless creator 2013-05-14T16:10:37Z The next thing we know he’s being whisked to the development studio in a beautiful manor house. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z His mural incorporates bright colors and local treasures: the manor house, Martin Ware pottery, the green spaces that soothed so many during the pandemic, the canal’s regal swans, as well as the proud hashtag “#OurSouthall.” A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z At a manor house where players and devotees have gathered, egos and strongly held principles bring the tension to a boil. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Lime Wood, once a manor house, is now a high-end getaway in Hampshire, England. In Transit Blog: Laid-Back English Country Retreats 2014-05-06T23:00:06Z We paddled around one island with a well-manicured manor house draped in vines and surrounded by waterside gardens and a metal fence. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Following the Route des Caps, we passed manor houses, woodlands and cornfields . Betting on a shore thing: Four megaship veterans try cruising on a smaller scale 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Do they come standard with the isolated manor house, or . "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin": How to be Gothic, from creepy manors to severe housekeepers 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z This has also included a walk to the eerily secluded church and manor house in Michael Reeves' slightly camp but enduringly disturbing 1968 film Witchfinder General. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z He has filled his manor house with priceless objects, turning statues and paintings into fetishes. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z This inviting Eden — which also features an enchanting Victorian manor house — isn’t real, though whenever you step into it, it might as well be. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z His collection of manor houses included a 150-room castle in Austria once owned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which Koch used for decades as a summer retreat. Frederick Koch, low-profile Koch brother, dies at 86 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They arrive at the titular manor house, get kitted out and shoved down the aisle, all in 15 minutes of screen time. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-05T06:59:00Z “When you totted up the value of a manor house, you included how much pigeon s--- it produced!” ‘Cooking for Picasso’: A young woman’s brush with fame and good food 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The Grade I-listed manor house, set in eight acres of “magnificent parkland”, has eight bedrooms, a walled garden, a three-bedroom “staff cottage”, wine cellars, a swimming pool and a tennis court. Living the Hollywood high life: movie homes up for sale 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Situated on a slope set back from a sparsely traversed road, a renovated 19th-century, straw-hued manor house harks to a time when lemonade was sipped slowly on balmy evenings. At this B&B in Lexington, Va., you paint your own vacation 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The old saw that they should be served at room temperature was probably written by somebody with a chilly manor house. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z While the white facade of the grand manor house is original, the entire inside of the building was built from scratch, a project that took three years. The Europe Issue: A Fashion-Forward Guide to Antwerp 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z On this occasion our destination was the manor house in Worcestershire belonging to friends. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z Carrington grew up in a grand manor house, the daughter of a self-made British textile tycoon and his Irish wife. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “Like Rob, I loved the idea of a big lawn rolling up to an understated manor house perfect for mud boots or high heels,” says Sheryl Lowe. Rob Lowe 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z Set to open in April/ May One of the UK's most important non-fortified medieval manor houses, augmented with late-Gothic windows, a Tudor gatehouse and turrets, is currently undergoing another conversion – into a holiday property. This year's hot beds 2011-01-01T00:06:06Z When it visits Levin, the film exchanges the trappings of theatricality for a lyrical naturalism, inhaling the fresh air of open fields and the homely aromas of a drafty wooden manor house. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Prices start at £199 for two people with two nights' accommodation, dinner on the first night, afternoon tea and tickets to Haddon Hall, a medieval manor house. Travel tips: visit a museum at night or book a spring break 2013-05-12T04:59:01Z Lloyd was the brainy horticultural wiz and master of one of England’s most picturesque and interesting gardens, set in the grounds of a medieval manor house named Great Dixter. From the horticultural greats, garden guidance for all of us 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z But , built like Le Thoronet for the Cistercian order, and slowly developed since 1999 out of a baroque manor house, shows that Pawson can build, in three dimensions and in a serious cause. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z In the Baltics, I spent an epic 10 days zigzagging across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, discovering manor houses and palace ruins that even locals don’t visit. A Frugal Handoff 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z And while the costumes and interiors are lavish, the Fifth Avenue streetscapes are now backlot constructions fleshed out with computer graphics — you don’t even get the authentic glory of the manor house. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Instead, to Clemmie's dismay and even anger, he took out large mortgages at high interest rates to buy Chartwell and then poured thousands of pounds into renovating and landscaping the ugly Victorian manor house. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z When the body of arrogant local beauty Melissa Townsend is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy discover a seedy world of deceit. Thursday TV Picks: ‘Our Nixon’ on CNN 2013-07-31T19:59:18Z The emerging-artists show, “On the Cusp,” resided in a more strait-laced setting, a classic Cape Dutch manor house in the center of town, made available by Distell, a Stellenbosch-based liquor company that sponsored the section. Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Hildreth sometimes takes a hint from old British manor houses when designing laundry spaces. Six design tricks to make laundry feel like less of a chore 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A Saturday morning organic farmers’ market selling cheeses, local honey and fresh produce draws hundreds to the farm’s main courtyard; spinning, weaving and pottery demonstrations take place in the manor house during seasonal festivals. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Every structure, from manor house to farm outbuilding, was made of native golden limestone blocks that seemed to glow in the sunshine. In France’s Dordogne region, a land of castles and caves calls for deep exploration 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The production, by Jonathan Miller, updates the action from vaguely medieval times to an oppressively grand 19th-century manor house and gives us glimpses of numerous members of the household who aren't in the original libretto. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z More of a fortified manor house, the castle was extended again and again over the centuries, eventually becoming a hotel before it burned down in 1978. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-18T10:57:05Z But you couldn't call it a stately home or a manor house. More than a home 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Medieval wool merchants built stately manor houses and remarkable, timeless churches that have been lovingly preserved. 36 Hours in the Cotswolds 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A long and winding drive passes sheds of unclear purpose and ends in a small yard beyond an imposing cream-coloured manor house. 10 stomachs, 32 brains and 18 testicles – a day inside the UK's only leech farm 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z A tour of the quarters and home, with their artifacts of bondage and bounty, shows how the enslaved Africans toiled to keep the manor house functioning for the wealthy Royalls. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s an “Upstairs, Downstairs” or “Downton Abbey” of sorts, set not in a manor house but in the genteel bohemian home of Mary-Kay Wilmers, the longtime editor of The London Review of Books. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z The castle is really a fortified medieval manor house, with Saxon origins, which became increasingly domesticated by further alterations and extension, up to and including the 19th century, until it was hardly castle-like at all. Astley Castle – review 2012-06-16T23:05:47Z One such group, which can’t agree on a name, has been granted a residence at an “institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance” in a converted rural manor house. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z On the edge of Snowdonia National Park, I checked in to Palé Hall, a historic manor house with an eponymous restaurant. I found an amazing tomato-rosemary focaccia recipe in Wales 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z In Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play, the showpiece of Brits Off Broadway, a manor house becomes a girls’ school and then an arts center and then a hotel. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Around 1930 London dealers stripped the brick manor house and shipped sections to Boston. Antiques: Rooms With a View of British History 2013-05-02T20:02:50Z After 10 turbulent centuries, the fortified manor house of Astley Castle in Warwickshire was reborn last year as a holiday rental home for the Landmark Trust, with an impeccable intervention by Witherford Watson Mann. Stirling prize 2013: shock of the new as five first-time nominees shortlisted 2013-07-17T23:01:00Z Hospitals, once centered in church complexes and later in buildings that looked like manor houses or banks, began to look more like factories. Perspective | How to survive a pandemic? Courage, resiliency and resistance to bad ideas. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z At the end of “Time Is,” Jan is about to spend a five-week-long holiday in the country near a somewhat rundown manor house. Review | First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Residents previously said selling the manor house, six farms and 17 homes would be against his dying wishes and they feared being evicted. Hamlet of Trevalga 'sells for £16m' after row over lord's will 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Mayflower Primary has had to spread its 500 pupils across four sites, including a mosque's community hall and manor house. RAAC: School told it was affected by crumbling concrete deemed safe 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z In 1973 Beatle George Harrison gifted a manor house to the Hare Krishna movement so they could have a base in the UK. George Harrison's Hare Krishna Manor celebrates 50 years 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Grade II listed manor house in Oxfordshire, complete with its own moat. Boris Johnson: Final curtain on a colourful career? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z A financier had constructed the Edwardian-style manor house with French and Gothic elements in 1908, but it had fallen into disrepair by the 1950s, with shutters dangling and a yard overcome with weeds. Milton Larsen, co-founder of Hollywood's Magic Castle, dead at 92 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The manor house has 130 rooms, shared between 44 adults and 15 children plus volunteers and guests. The Suffolk manor house where 60 people live together 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Instead of rebuilding at the site of the manor house, they restored much of the existing structure and added a great room. This 191-acre estate is on the market for $5.9 million 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But if “Knives Out’s” manor house full of rotten apples hews close to the classical detective story template, the suspects in “Glass Onion” feel drawn to more contemporary specifications. Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Answer Man admits there was a time when any mention of Foxhall Road brought to his mind a Colonial manor house he assumed must have once stood in the area. Perspective | Exploring Foxhall Village, a bit of Tudor England in Northwest D.C. 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z According to the Guardian, the Sunak family — they have two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka — spend the week in their five-bedroom house in west London and weekends in North Yorkshire at a Georgian manor house. Richer than the royals: Win puts Rishi Sunak’s wealth in the spotlight 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The Who’s frontman invited Johnson — then living with his band in an apartment with just four mattresses on the floor — over for a meal at his manor house. AC/DC’s Brian Johnson writes about his Cinderella lives 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Many real estate developers erected rectangular boxes with architectural palettes often limited to garish choices for the color of the glass and eccentric rooftops in poor mimicry of European manor houses. Twilight of Entrepreneurs in China as More Leave the Country 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z They transformed the manor house in 1931 and added nine guesthouses, a polo field, a racetrack, a training track and the estate’s famous horseshoe-shaped stables. Historical hunt country estate on the market for $27.5 million 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z In a quiet manor house in the hills above Geneva in Switzerland, the dominant languages are Russian and Ukrainian. Ukraine war: Helping families find missing loved ones 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Armed with pitchforks and other farm tools, they broke into nobles’ manor houses and destroyed the old legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark is one of the owners of Brinkburn Northumberland, a 12th Century manor house and priory which offers holiday lets and hosts weddings near Longframlington in Northumberland. Storm Arwen: 'I was left without broadband for seven weeks' 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The manager of an Elizabethan manor house has raised £30,000 for repairs after spending 36 hours in one of its priest holes. Man raises money for Harvington Hall with priest hole challenge 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The 12,500-square-foot manor house has 24 rooms, 17 fireplaces, nine bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. Historical hunt country estate on the market for $27.5 million 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was uncovered at Weston Hall, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, ahead of the manor house being put up for sale. Tiepolo drawing found in Weston Hall attic to be auctioned 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In some cases, the peasants simply burned down the manor houses. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He purchased a Hampshire manor house through a network of offshore companies. Pandora Papers: The secret owners of UK property worth billions 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Many were persuaded as soon as they visited the vast stone-walled ground floor of the manor house to see the giant maquette Caruncho had made of the planned changes to the town. In a Fading Portuguese Village, the Gardens Bloom Again 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It allows for “structural changes, alterations, additions or improvements” to the “manor house” with “prior written approval” from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, according to the filing from the owners’ lawyer. Justice Hugo Black lived in the same Alexandria house for more than 30 years. A court just cleared the way for resisted renovations. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z British prime ministers also have access to Chequers, a 1,500-acre retreat that includes a manor house and an indoor swimming pool. Here’s why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street refurbishment is a big deal in Britain 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Throughout France, bands of angry peasants struck out against members of the upper classes, attacking and destroying many manor houses. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Features: The estate of Janice Smith, ex-wife of former ABC News White House correspondent Sam Donaldson, is known as Little Falls and was designed by architect Russell Versaci to resemble an English manor house. The 10 most expensive homes sold in the D.C. area in 2020 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Buck and Mimi Williams have a fondness for historic homes, which led them to re-create a pre-Revolutionary War manor house in the Bradley Farms neighborhood of Potomac, Md. This Potomac, Md., house is an homage to a classic American home 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “They didn’t build grand manor houses,” Williams said. Perspective | Two old stone houses vie for the title of oldest dwelling in the District 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Campaigners are fighting to restore an "iconic" manor house that featured in the original series of Poldark. Poldark house in Cornwall fallen into 'complete disrepair' 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z It typically consisted of the lord’s manor house, a church, and workshops. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A second manor house, on what was formerly Ross Farm, is a Georgian-style house designed by Billy Dew and built in 1993. The 10 most expensive homes sold in the D.C. area in 2020 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The pink sandstone manor house was designed in the style of a French chateau, and it is perched over Byram Lake, a reservoir for the area. Trump got a $21 million tax break for saving the forest outside his New York mansion. Now the deal is under investigation. 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z For sale: Crescent Chapel Farm, includes stone and brick manor house built in 1843 on 31 acres once granted to William Penn near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Franklin Graham plans a prayer march 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z All of the items were found at Oxburgh Hall, a manor house in Norfolk. Rare 15th-century religious manuscript discovered under the floorboards of historic house 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The curving staircase evokes the Gothic settings of “Jane Eyre” and “Rebecca,” two other stories about mysterious manor houses with tortured men that end in fire. 'The Secret Garden' ending explained: Why the new adaptation decided to burn it all down 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Besides the circa 1830 manor house, there are two guesthouses, six tenant houses, a farmhouse, a greenhouse, a swimming pool, a gazebo, four koi ponds and a pond with a waterfall and stone bridge. The 10 most expensive homes sold in the D.C. area in 2020 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z After all, if the fruit itself would not last, carved-stone pineapples on plinths would certainly be a lasting reminder to guests and passers-by of the wealth within a manor house. The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The manor house has been refurbished as part of the community center and pool area, said Robert Wormald Jr. of the Wormald Cos. 219 townhouses swell ranks at EastChurch 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z In the absence of the Irish manor house and its surroundings, we organized social activities from 5 p.m. onwards, including virtual drinks and a pub quiz. How I ran a virtual research retreat during a pandemic 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z What was life in the English right like then, I asked in a call to her Polish lockdown in that restored manor house in the countryside between Warsaw and the German border. Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z The name of our house is Mapperton House, which is considered England's finest manor house. Meghan Markle, Prince Harry ‘had enough’ of ‘relentless negative press,’ says Viscountess Julie Montagu 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z He learned their Latin names from his grandfather and built a sprawling arboretum outside his manor house in Luslawice, Poland, where he also founded a music center and cultivated tree mazes. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer known for his foreboding sound, dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Around his manor house, he arranged a scenic arboretum featuring the various kinds of trees and plants that he brought from the most distant corners of the world where his music was played. Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, known for monumental works, dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The inside, predominantly white with blue and touches of yellow, as the decorators say, is mindful of a small manor house. From The Archive: Ben Hogan Today - Golf Digest 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It was a Millennium Eve housewarming for a manor house in the western Poland they had helped rebuild from ruins. Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z She said she was then subjected to what she describes as an "exorcism" at the commune in Beech Grove, a 19th Century manor house set among rolling green fields in Nonington, Kent. My dark past growing up in a rural English commune 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The training facility — on the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall, a pristine Elizabethan manor house — made Burnley a hard sell to players and, particularly, their agents. At Burnley, Bricks and Mortar Secure a Premier League Future 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Airbnb questioned the accuracy of the findings, emphasising that unusual listings such as caravans or large manor houses, used for events, may not affect the local housing stock. Revealed: the areas in the UK with one Airbnb for every four homes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z His collection of manor houses included a 150-room castle in Austria once owned by the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which Koch used for decades as a summer retreat. Frederick Koch, arts benefactor and low-profile Koch brother, dies aged 86 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z After Trump purchased the winery, he converted the manor house into a boutique hotel known as the Albemarle Estate at Trump Winery. Trump Organization fires more undocumented workers — a year after its use of illegal labor was revealed 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The two men meet in a manor house outside Liverpool on Oct. Timeline: Key moments leading up to Johnson's Brexit deal 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “That happened in his meeting with Varadkar in the manor house. It unlocked the whole thing.” 'If anyone can do it, it's him': how Boris won a Brexit deal 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The meeting, in a manor house half an hour from Liverpool, lasted more than three hours. Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar say they 'see pathway' to Brexit deal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z His father and uncle — identical twins — bought it in 1958, and Shields, 71, grew up on the property in an antebellum manor house built by Gabriel Duvall, an early Supreme Court justice. ‘We thought it would be here forever’: Maryland golf course to close after more than 60 years 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Some of the workers involved in renovating the manor house were also undocumented — members of a roving group of Trump Organization stonemasons called “Los Picapiedra,” or “The Flintstones,” by other Spanish- speaking Trump employees. Trump Organization fires more undocumented workers — a year after its use of illegal labor was revealed 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The production team creates the illusion of Count Zaroff’s island — with its cavernous manor house and dramatic oceanside cliffs and crevasses — with all the expressionistic cinematic techniques available to filmmakers in the early 1930s. The Most Dangerous Game is this weekend’s best streaming bet 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z At four-fifteen on the morning of June 4, 1944, Group Captain James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the British military, arrived at the library of a grand manor house on the southern coast of England. Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The sessions reveal the painstaking work that went into the record, as the band took up residency in St Catherine's Court - actress Jane Seymour's romantic manor house in Somerset. Radiohead foil attempted blackmail 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z A white-owned manor house nearby gave its name to the entire area: Green Valley. Perspective | What’s in a name? In Arlington, ‘Nauck’ becomes ‘Green Valley.’ Again. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z His daughter, who lived in London, had a serious boyfriend, and both families had flown in to spend Thanksgiving weekend at a manor house owned by the boyfriend’s parents. Will Sports Betting Transform How Games Are Watched, and Even Played? 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z His “win a country home” competition netted him £1m in ticket sales for his property, the east wing of an 18th-century manor house in Lancashire. Couple tell of shock of being forced to scrap house sale raffle 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z In 2016, Historic England placed Wimbledon Park on its “at risk” register, warning that the park, which was the site of the 1st Earl Spencer’s manor house in the 16th century, is “highly vulnerable”. The amateur golfers taking on the might of Wimbledon: ‘It’s like Brexit. It has split members’ 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z In Sarah Waters’ absorbing Gothic novel “The Little Stranger,” an 18th-century manor house becomes the central character. ‘The Little Stranger’ delivers a haunted house full of atmospheric dread 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “You have different strains for different things,” Norton said recently as he stood near his hemp patch, down the hill from Washington’s famous manor house. At George Washington’s Mount Vernon, a luscious crop of cannabis nears harvest time 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The Firestones made significant improvements to the farm and circa-1830s manor house. Storied equestrian estate in western Loudoun County goes on market for $13.5 million 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The two leaders will hold talks the following day at Chequers, the 16th-century manor house which is the prime minister’s official country residence. Trade and tea with Queen for Trump on visit to Britain in 'turmoil' 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Nor is she a fan of Chequers, the 16th-century country manor house retreat used by British prime ministers. Special Report: One day at a time - Brexit the Theresa May way 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The "twisting trail" will lead them "through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside," it says. JK Rowling gives Lethal White release date 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The team’s base in the region is a 19th century manor house. Tour de France 2018: stage two – live! 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z In the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2016 an arson fire destroyed most of the main manor house. American history is all around us: Here’s why we must not lose the thread 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z One former U.S. official described him as the Intelligence Committee’s version of “Mr. Carson,” referring to the butler on the British drama “Downton Abbey” who keeps the manor house running with quiet precision. In charging Senate staffer and seizing reporter’s records, Justice Dept. ignites debate over leak crackdown 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Grade II listed manor house on Homerton High Street is the oldest property in Hackney. Is the National Trust relevant to you? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z With his blinding white smile, tanned skin and bleached blond hair, the new American owner of one of the north of England’s most important manor houses does not travel incognito. 'His ancestral home is a tip': the Californian restoring Rochdale's grandest house 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Eighteen delegates, six from each country, plus observers from the United Nations and Europe attended the secretive two-day talks at a 19th-century manor house just outside Helsinki. Koreas, US conclude ‘constructive’ talks in Finland 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Only one bodyguard was guarding him in 2013, when he was found dead in the locked bathroom of a manor house. As Putin’s opponents flocked to London, his spies followed 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The chateau’s architect is refurbishing the manor house there and building structures for an apparent hunting compound, according to permit records at the local town hall. World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z What follows is a manor house whodunit in which a farfetched setup initially put me in mind of fan fiction but whose execution I found surprisingly engaging. Review | ‘The Invisible Hours’ gives new hope to those who might have started to sour on VR games 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Jack McDonnell likes to joke that he built his Irish Georgian manor house in McLean because his wife wouldn’t let him buy one in Ireland. McLean manor house has Irish influences 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The manor house and the class it represents are degenerating. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z But most of the film’s action takes place inside the stark manor house of Katherine’s father-in-law, where every object — and every resident — has its place. Review | ‘Lady Macbeth’: Florence Pugh shines as a desperate housewife amid dainty violence 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Homes are in the style of English Tudors, French manor houses and American center-hall colonials and raised ranches. Purchase, N.Y.: A Celebrity Sanctum With Wide-Open Spaces 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The Le Gallais family moved out of the chateau during World War Two and now occupy the 16th Century manor house across the vineyard that the Clicquots used for the servants. How women are changing champagne - BBC News 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Private gates guard the circular cobblestone driveway that lead to the 16,000-square-foot stone manor house. McLean manor house has Irish influences 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z What’s Happening: Music will fill the air on the front lawn, manor house lawn and the main stage. Woodinville summer guide: 9 essential events | Provided By Chateau Ste Michelle 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z These delicate movements, juxtaposed against violent acts, force us to consider the brutality embedded in the quiet domesticity of the manor house. Review | ‘Lady Macbeth’: Florence Pugh shines as a desperate housewife amid dainty violence 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, as he gained political prominence, Le Pen Sr commissioned a biography from a journalist who spent time at the family’s manor house. Is France finally ready to choose Marine Le Pen as president? 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Down the road is the 52-room Cellars-Hohenort Hotel, once a manor house on the same estate, with a spa, a restaurant and views of Table Mountain. House Hunting in ... Cape Town 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Only the ruined church, a few cottages, and a series of humps and bumps in the fields remain of Wharram Percy, once a prosperous village with two manor houses and dozens of more humble houses. Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He left her, in the seventies, for Lady Caroline Blackwood, an heiress to the Guinness fortune, moved into a manor house in England, and had a child, Robert Sheridan Lowell. The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The second was discovered in 1991, in an English manor house. Some Credit for Henry Hudson, Found in a 380-Year-Old Map 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z One of Ms Keily's favourite exhibits is a bowling ball discovered at the site of a Tudor manor house in Stepney Green. The archaeological legacy of the Crossrail excavations - BBC News 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z When the weather improves he and his colleagues will continue their work on the site, focusing particularly on what he says is the skeleton of a moated manor house. Archaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The manor house, the two teachers’ cottages, a stone granary and the St. Francis de Sales school are the only structures still standing on the property. ‘This is sacred land’: Nuns fight their own order to save historical plantation from being sold 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z We made the video in a manor house, surrounded by stuff from a junk shop, wearing really bad clothes Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me) 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. de Savary, a native of Essex, England, and his South Carolina-born wife, Lana, have lived in a manor house in the Cotswold hills, 95 miles west of London, for the past 10 years. A Jet-Setting Millionaire Updates a Medieval Manor 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z A zealously renovated Byzantine estate, Kinsterna is a classic stone manor house, banked by orange orchards, olive groves and vineyards. Greece’s Chicest New (and Very Old) Beach Destination 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Balazs says he spends most holidays with his family in the 16-bedroom manor house, built in the 1940s, and lands his seaplane on the river in front. In the Hudson River Valley, a Family Legacy in Riverfront Mansions 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Garrett is head gardener at this most famous of English gardens, with its 15th-century manor house, wild meadow, hot border and other innovative scenes created by the late Christopher Lloyd. A Skagit Valley nursery is the perfect place to view roses — and a vintage one-room schoolhouse 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z We made a video in a manor house, surrounded by a load of stuff from a junk shop, wearing really bad clothes we’d been given. Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me) 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It was a three-floor manor house set on 5 acres of beautiful grounds. Fashion Heiress Patricia Gucci on Uncovering Her Family Secrets 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Surely, the elevation of this log-cabin pattern to the manor house was a prerequisite of its phenomenal fame; I am reminded that jeans first entered the orbit of glamour by way of the dude-ranch vacation. Buffalo in the City 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The present manor house is said to date to about 1686 and was requisitioned for British and Canadian officers during World War II. A Home That ‘Downton’ Fans Would Love 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr Corbyn, who grew up in a manor house in Shropshire, deals in absolutes and abstracts: “justice, freedom, solidarity and equality for all”. Jim McMahon, reluctant maquisard 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z So you’ve got this movie about US high-school kids, with a song by a band from Glasgow in a manor house in England. Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me) 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Singh says that the manor house under construction will also include a library containing both Gandhi and Mandela memorabilia. Max India's Analjit Singh Builds Grand Estate In South Africa 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The soundtrack inside the storied manor house Hotel Rothschild was Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” anachronistically set to orchestral strings. Menswear fashion week kicks off in Paris amid heat 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The soundtrack inside the storied manor house Hotel Rothschild was Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" anachronistically set to orchestral strings. Menswear fashion week kicks off in Paris amid heat 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It is unclear what will happen with the property, which once operated as a state-owned museum that drew visitors to see the plantation’s gardens, Chinese pagoda, stone bell tower and manor house. Chinqua Penn Plantation, onetime tourist attraction, sold 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The Georgian-style manor house, which dates to the 1930s, “offers a glimpse into Long Island’s high society from a bygone era,” according to the Douglas Elliman listing. Peter Madoff’s Former Home Sells for $3.5 Million 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It had an elaborate back story about a woman named Gilly Hicks and her granddaughter who lived in a manor house in Australia. The Aging of Abercrombie & Fitch 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Bruce was one of the wealthiest men in Virginia when he built the manor house on 5,000 acres of the Staunton River lowlands. House of the Week | Staunton Hill in Brookneal, Va., for $5.49M 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Only seven of the 45 tracks on the double disc feature actors from the hit PBS costume drama about an aristocratic British manor house in the 1910s and 1920s. Holiday albums from Idina Menzel, ‘Downton Abbey’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “Strut” ends in the parlor of Glenview, the manor house across the courtyard from the galleries. A Review of ‘Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art,’ in Yonkers 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z A contract was written into the deeds of this old French manor house, stipulating that its future owners keep Hubert's room as it is for 500 years. French World War One bedroom of soldier who never returned 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z At the handsome Victorian manor house that is the school's HQ, play rules supreme. The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph says Lee Cricket Club in Buckinghamshire and a team from the local manor house started playing on 3 August 1914. Iraq deaths and gender change - the papers 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Over the next six months, Spencer-Percival sold nearly everything he owned: the classic car collection, the expensive watches, the manor house. This Man Sold Everything He Owned To Start Again 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z After the Civil War, the plantation was partitioned among the Childs heirs and the manor house fell into a neglected state. House of the Week | Updated 19th-century home in Riva for $1.525M Goering lived a lavish lifestyle, often entertaining guests at his grand manor house in Schorfheide Forest in Brandenburg, near Berlin. Goering's cigars to go under hammer 2013-08-21T05:16:56Z "The manor house would be absolutely stunningly beautiful if it was restored." Girl Scouts auction U.S. plantation during financial struggle 2013-07-26T13:53:59Z Lady Enid tends to swan around the manor house striking poses, but she does seem devoted to her husband, albeit a bit concerned about the fate of Wife No. 1. | Long Island: A Review of ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep,’ in Sag Harbor 2013-07-20T00:18:35Z His daughter removed much of the Victorian detail and turned it into an English country manor house. At Wave Hill House, Paying Homage to History 2013-06-19T16:18:04Z She acquired a stately manor house, a boarding-school education and the received pronunciation of the aristocracy. Lara Croft: the reinvention of a sex symbol 2013-03-04T17:01:00Z The school, located in an 18th century manor house near Staines in Surrey, has since been closed. BBC Editor Steps Aside After Dropping Savile Report 2012-10-22T16:07:29Z The accommodation is housed in three separate purpose-built buildings, known as "clusters", while many of the communal facilities are situated in a listed manor house. Is there a future for luxury care homes? 2012-07-23T12:11:07Z The 16th Century manor house is now used as a B&B and the surrounding airfields for holiday homes and farmland. Kent's cultural Olympic secrets 2012-07-19T03:16:00Z It's a gorgeous moated manor house, which is not only beautiful and beguiling, but also staffed by amazingly friendly people. All our banksters do, they do for you 2012-07-06T20:00:02Z The previous manor house was razed and, in just three years, a concrete palace, with scores of rooms, was erected and precision-clad in granite to give a mock gothic fortress effect. Brecqhou: how windswept eyesore became Barclays' getaway 2012-06-27T16:59:01Z Streets are lined with embassies and family homes, some built in the style of classical Polish manor houses and others in the modernist Bauhaus style pioneered by Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. Warsaw stadium adds new threat to historic area 2012-06-07T10:32:13Z I have explained that my studio, in the manor house, has everything essential to my work: cupboards, cabinets, tables, shelves. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z A few years later, the oak and Norwegian maple trees and the manor houses were still there, but the street was no more. In Douglaston, Queens, Turning Away From Numbered Streets 2012-03-27T02:53:59Z She describes the untrained young cura leaving Santiago to step into the unhappy coil of events in the ruined manor house, his vain efforts to help the pathetic young wife and her brutalized husband. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The Mayfair estate agent ad had described it as impressive, highlighting features such as a stone manor house, a private harbour and a helipad. Brecqhou: how windswept eyesore became Barclays' getaway 2012-06-27T16:59:01Z The fabric of the small chapel is apparently of the 14th century, and may have been attached to the manor house of Portpool, held at that period by the Lords Grey of Wilton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z At night, in my room, the walls become a mural of Amboise, the manor house, the Loire, old bridges, royalty, paintings, rearing horses, Francesco, wings, rocks, caves, Galilean faces...like maddened bees. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The first horse I ever possessed of my own cost £100, and was called Pickwell, after a manor house in Leicestershire. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Like other midland counties, its environments have never been without more manor houses and country gentlemen’s residences than is the case with the academic section of East Anglia. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z —About nine miles from Reading, on the road to Newbury, and removed about two miles from the high road, is an ancient manor house called Upton Court. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-20T03:00:18.340Z Bishop Hugh de Puiset rebuilt the church and built a manor house which was for many years the occasional residence of the bishops of Durham. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Tonight, I am alone, writing: the manor house is still. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z A driveway lined with grand old trees leads through the flower-studded lawn up to the retired manor house, whose wide verandas completely circle it round. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z Designer Mark Thompson’s recreation of an oak-paneled manor house makes you want to go and stay in it. Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage 2012-02-03T01:36:08Z Edie was standing to welcome her husband on the big stone steps of the old manor house. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z During six months in the year, when and where the flower culture prevails, it forms the staple of conversation in parsonage, manor house, farm, and cottage. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Somebody went back to the manor house for candles. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The townships of the abbot and all the hundreds were set to farm, the forests were destroyed, the manor houses threatened to fall, everything daily got worse and worse. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z The old manor house, called the Hall of Beethom, was a fine old castellated mansion, but now unfortunately in ruins. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z It is a manor house after the English fashion; but in the attic are two incipient, rounded, Indian council chambers with sapling partitions—because an Indian is always an Indian. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The manor house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a moat, believed to be a Danish work, near the river west of Putney Bridge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Bobbing his head as if in recognition, he walked toward the manor house with me. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z In accordance with this, old Stephen, with Taras, and Simeon Pomenko, his fellow elder, repaired to the manor house, the judge making his statement. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z His manor house, Mount Airy, in Richmond County, was situated on an elevation, and overlooked the Rappahannock River, several miles distant. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z In the bottom, is a large old manor house belonging to Colonel Williams, beautified “above, below, around,” with leaded mercuries, shepherdesses, and sportsmen. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Theodora has been a guest in some of the finest manor houses in England. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z The real 'Seignior' and 'Seignioress' live in Richelieu-en-Bas in the new manor house—I say 'new', but that must be seventy-five years old. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The thatched dwellings are as poor as anywhere in that part of Galicia, not even the church or the manor house commanding any attention. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z It was like a village, which was dominated by the manor house. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z At last I was roused from my reverie by hearing a horse snorting and impatiently pawing the ground twenty paces from me, in the track which ran from the high road to the manor house. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z "He shall be put under the manor house, in the front cellar," said Axel to Habermann, who had come in again. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z The Doctor had his little joke about a pung for a manor house. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z And presently, looking from the window of his comfortable room in the manor house, he examined with a queer smile the thickness of its walls. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z We can imagine Thomas Lee standing at the edge of those bold cliffs, looking across the River while he dreamed of the manor house which he would some day build. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z When he had said this he set off to the manor house, and Fred followed him slowly, like hard times when they come into the land, and his heart was full of grief and pain. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z Habermann stood in the yard, with the laborer's wife, apparently persuading her to something; she resisted, but finally yielded, and came with him towards the manor house. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Compliments and congratulations on the cake, the wine, the wreaths, the song, the master's home-coming, the refurbished manor house, were exchanged freely, and we all talked together in French and English. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z You know it for a falsehood then," retorted Giorgi Pomenko, "the coward is hiding in the iron closet he has had built for himself at the manor house. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Thomas Lee planned his house, it is said, after viewing the manor houses of England, and the result was that Stratford turned out to be a sort of medieval fortress. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z The news would set the bells ringing in every steeple in Axholme; there would be bonfires on every hill and mound, and feasting and merrymaking in every manor house and farm and cottage. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z On this island there was a fine old manor house called “Headquarters,” then owned by a Mr. and Mrs. Peck, and she went there to see it. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z "Yes, I have lived at the manor house." A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z It appears to be a general conviction that the manor house at Zulawce is to be attacked on the night of Easter Sunday. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z So they rode over toward the graceful manor house where the baron lived, and as they rode he said to Gareth. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z Their military success had evidently given them courage, but just for that reason it the more concerned those assembled at the manor house at Pognębin to secure the election of their candidate. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Yet the bolt I heard was one of the large iron bolts, used in the farm and manor houses of Westmoreland, and the North Country. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z One night in February, just before the Doctor's mid-winter visit, a friend of the dead poet passed a night beneath the roof of the old manor house as Mr. Ewart's guest. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z There they rested for the last time, being within a few miles of the quiet manor house they were about to enter. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z When I saw you at the old manor house, your face seemed familiar to me. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The dinner at the Pognębin manor house was not cheerful that day. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z She dwelt among the Fells in one of those large, comfortable farm or manor houses, occupied for centuries by the Sheep Lords of the North Country. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The picturesque manor house not far distant was once the home of Admiral Penn, father of William Penn the famous Quaker.† Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Villages are becoming scarce--mere hamlets, too poor for a manor house, too poor almost for a church, and with cottages of the humblest, the public-house alone retaining its undesirable dimensions. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I will have some hammocks swung this evening in the old manor house. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The woman—like a woman—supported herself by her neighbours; she sold mushrooms, raspberries and strawberries to the manor house, or to the Jews, and at least thus earned a loaf of wheat-bread. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z I saw two fine old manor houses and many lovely cottages. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Lady Isabelle and Lieutenant Kingsland sat on the lawn before the old manor house in the soft glow of an English afternoon, contemplating the inevitable. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z Around the same time, posing as an experienced trader, he invited potential new clients to a country manor house and, even as his fraud was crumbling, people continued to invest in GFX. City trader admits defrauding hundreds of people in ?14m 'ponzi' scheme 2011-01-12T14:38:21Z When they had concluded their ramble and returned to the old manor house, the shades of twilight were gathering. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z It is not uncommon in England to find the chapel attached to the manor house of an estate used as a parish church for the neighbourhood. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Not far from each other stand the remains of two great manor houses, Caerhayes Castle, demolished in 1808 and rebuilt, and Bodrugan, now a farm, but once, after Stowe the finest house in the county. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z By straining their eyes the girls could see that it crossed a mill pond and led in a graceful curve to a rambling manor house of clapboard and stone. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z When you leaf through those magazines with adverts for manor houses, with tennis courts, swimming pools, lakes, hundreds of acres of land and rows of cottages, they cost millions – maybe £10-12 million? ?140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z It was not by any means such a mansion as in Great Britain would be suggested to the mind by the title of manor house. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z Ms. Petri was married to an SS officer who ran an agricultural estate, complete with a colonial-style manor house and slave laborers, in Galicia, in occupied Poland. Women?s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions 2010-07-17T16:13:00Z His ancient manor house came—as did most of the Arundell estates, for they wedded cannily—by marriage. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Her father, a Royal Air Force pilot, died before her birth in an unsuccessful attempt to save his baby daughter and her nanny from a fire at the family’s timbered manor house. Rose Gray, 71, a Master of Italian Fare 2010-03-02T04:32:00Z Wainscot is an inheritance from our early ancestors, for in the manor houses in the mother country there is wonderful woodwork, used not only for wainscot, but for other parts of the interior finish. Remodeled Farmhouses To the right and left tumble-down brickwork, overgrown with half-withered celandine, jutted out above ragged thorn-bushes--the remains of the old castle, upon the ruins of which the manor house had been erected. The Wish A Novel The village huts concentrated themselves in the neighbourhood of the manor house, and control over the weak community was easier when under the eye of the lord or his bailiff. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The delicate execution of the extreme distance where is seen a manor house of the olden time nestling amongst the trees, and a farmyard hard by, leaves nothing to be desired. 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. We were simply to watch, to fire at will in case of an emergency, to guard the occupants of the manor house against any danger that might emerge from the depths of the lagoon. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Between these gables, the central façade, a double-storied loggia of stone, reminiscent of a Dorsetshire manor house, was strikingly beautiful with its splendid sculptured decorations. The Bachelors A Novel Then we returned to the manor house without speaking. The Wish A Novel Among the farms of freemen and vassals might be found the farm of a larger landed proprietor, who had a manor house with a hall, and a great number of huts for domestics and labourers. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. It bears the appearance of a manor house, as it probably was, and it has a massive oak stair-way. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield Again the occupants of the great manor house, black and white, were gathered in the living-room, and the coroner called on each person in turn. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery We took lessons in the old dances, visited the manor houses. The Lost Door The white walls of the manor house gleamed across waving bushes, flooded by the purple rays of the setting sun. The Wish A Novel Only in one window of the manor house is there still a light: there only they have not yet gone to rest. The Golden Age in Transylvania Near by is the old manor house, in bad repair. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield He had spoken of the hatred sometimes borne by one brother for another; and had named the Jason family, main characters in the treasure legend of the old manor house, as a case in point. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The forest had grown for their sake, and the castle or manor house too had been built expressly that in it they might be cooked and served. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series When I climbed up the slope leading to the manor house I hid myself in the bushes and wept bitterly. The Wish A Novel Great changes had taken place in Ebesfalva in this time; the princely residence was no longer the simple manor house. The Golden Age in Transylvania The old rectory house, the manor house, formerly Lord Rochester’s home, and others on the south side of the green, are good buildings. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield And we left a more hopeful spirit among the other occupants of the manor house. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The manor house was a world to itself, a centre of law, of society, of industry, and, ofttimes, of culture. Women of England I intend indeed to be one day known as 'Logan of Crestlands;' but not of that ramshackle old manor house in southeastern Virginia, but of a new Crestlands in that transmontine paradise, Kentucky. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge A ruined manor house of the 16th century and some almshouses complete, with the church, a picturesque group of buildings; and Campden House, also of the 16th century, deserves notice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Thus, there was in London an old manor house in Clerkenwell, previously the residence of the Northampton family, which was converted into a private asylum by Dr. Newton the herbalist. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles The image of life was gone from that bleak manor house by the sea—the sea was dead, the air, all the elements by which men view their lives. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Most of the great castles of Hungary remained veritable castles long after castles in England had been transformed into halls and manor houses. Memoirs of Life and Literature Wingfield manor house is a ruin dating from the same century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The manor house, my temporary home, is not far from here. The Strollers This, with its low ceiling, unpainted timbers, and small windows, was not unlike the hall of some old manor house. The Heart of Thunder Mountain No white man in the manor house would have refused Slatterly’s offer. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The manor houses of some of these estates often became the temporary lodging of some division or even some army corps staff. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War Throughout the feudal period of the Middle Ages the hall was the main and often the only living, reception and banquet room of castles, palaces and manor houses. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia As I walked across from the vicarage to the manor house, the moon came out in the autumn evening sky and lighted the landscape with a brightness that was little short of daylight. In the Days of Drake At that moment the front door of the old manor house again opened, and this time a voice called, “Master Willie, Miss Alice, wherever have you got to?” What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps I didn’t see any of the guests again until just before the dinner hour, when a matter of a broken fly-tip had brought me into the manor house. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery She's taken a beautiful old manor house in the country, and it's to be our school for the whole of the summer term. The Manor House School Perhaps he remembered the gulf that had separated his father's log cabin from her uncle's manor house in the old Virginia days, but of these things no one spoke in Kentucky. The Roof Tree In the manor house of Woolsthorpe, on Christmas Day, 1642, was born to a widowed mother a sickly infant who seemed not long for this world. Pioneers of Science But the manor house itself is early Georgian; and though it has had some ugly additions, it still stands square and strong behind its fine old gateway. Highways and Byways in Surrey Nealman took them all into the great manor house: I went with Nealman’s chauffeur to see about the handling of their luggage. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery In many old manor houses there are equally clever contrivances for hiding-places. The Manor House School In those far-off days when the Crown still governed us there had stood in Virginia a manor house built of brick brought overseas from England. The Roof Tree The prejudices and passions which raged without control in vicarages, in cathedral closes, and in the manor houses of fox-hunting squires, were not shared by the chiefs of the ministry. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Walton has an interesting old manor house and a Norman church a good deal spoiled by restorers. Highways and Byways in Surrey No wonder the sportsmen liked to gather at this old manor house by the sea. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery There was once an old manor house here called Faukes or Fox Hall. The History of London We wondered why it was placed here until we learned from our invaluable Joanne that the Italian artist had lived and died at Amboise, inhabiting a little manor house near the château. In Château Land But the manor house was a ruin; and the grounds round it had, during many years, been utterly neglected. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) A bungalow proper may consist of but a half-dozen rooms, and yet look like a vast manor house. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines In midafternoon the coroner called all the occupants of the manor house together in the big living-room. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Through this valley, we get a glimpse of the site where Philipse erected, partly of brick brought from Holland, a manor house,* a mill,* and a church,* all of which are still standing. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He groaned within himself; he too would have to make his 'flight into Egypt,' There was nothing left in the dear old beloved manor house that would furnish sufficient capital for another gamble. Border Ghost Stories When he had left college, he earned a humble subsistence by reading the liturgy of the fallen Church to the families of those sturdy squires whose manor houses were scattered over the Wild of Sussex. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) "Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people." Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen May I ask what was your idea in buying this manor house?” Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery It is a quaint, unpretending, old-time residence, uniting manor house and rectory in one. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Nevertheless, a comparison would arise now and then with the former times, and with their state at Seaforth; and further back still, with the beauties and glories of the old manor house in England. A Red Wallflower Perhaps he saw there the future small Poussettes playing out of doors; perhaps too, he saw the faded, weary woman who bore his name, still watching the sick man in the old manor house. Ringfield A Novel The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Some one of the proud and wealthy occupants of the old manor house was simply enjoying a ride in the still woods. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery My father’s sisters used once to live in the old manor house. Anna the Adventuress The Rutherfords occupied the old manor house and filled the position to a great extent, but they owned none of the land in the neighbourhood, and the villagers were not really their tenants. To Love She accordingly retired to an old manor house on the borders of Wales, which had descended to her through many generations. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen If I had seen true, there could be but one explanation: that Major Dell had undergone some violent nervous shock since he had entered the door of the manor house of Kastle Krags. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Then he conducted him to an apartment of his large manor house. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The manor house stood upon rising ground, facing the east, and commanding a fine sea view in front, while it was sheltered on the north and west by a heavy growth of trees. Her Mother's Secret Just at that time, two new inmates were added to the manor house family. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days It was a lonely, desolate life in the old manor house. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen I have an aunt living there who has a fine old manor house, and who will be happy to take charge of you. Vixen, Volume III. The traces of his work at the other manor houses are wiped out by time. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England Their wives and children rendered such assistance as was necessary in the manor house. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Cecil did not know that a hundred dogs made a pack, for he had passed all his life in India, until a few months previous to his coming to the manor house. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days And now we know the story of the old manor house, of its old proprietors, and of all Poultry Meg's family. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen But there was the same bare, poverty-stricken look in this room as in every other part of the manor house. Vixen, Volume III. In the heart of England stands a sleepy hollow called "Green Corner," and in this same sleepy hollow stands a fine old English manor house styled "Green Corner Manor." Fifty-Two Stories For Girls It is doubtful whether we can date the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lambeth, which was then a manor house of the see of Rochester, earlier than the reign of Eadward the Confessor. Stray Studies from England and Italy Dr. Strickland and his pupil had been fairly ensconced, and for some time past settled in the pretty, sunny rooms in the south wing of the manor house. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Out in the country lies an old manor house, with red walls, pointed gables, and a red flag that floats on the tower. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Six years—six years in a Jersey manor house—with a pious old lady. Vixen, Volume III. As the two horsemen approached through the deepening twilight a sobbing negro woman peered timidly through the doorway of the old Southern manor house. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The tenant of my manor house by the Solent, when he heard I was going to be married, called upon me at my club. A Queen's Error The last evening at the manor house was passed by Anna and Cecil under the light of the stars, in Lady Dorothy's walk. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days But in this old dealer's warehouse he was able to resurrect things which had been bought from old manor houses, and which the Brunford people regarded as rubbish. The Day of Judgment It would have cost a thousand pounds to put the manor house in decent habitable order. Vixen, Volume III. It was in an obscure part of the county of Huntingdon, a large manor house and a cottage for shepherds the only buildings, with the exception p. 11of a dilapidated church used as a barn. Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies So much was he moved by the nurse's story that this manor house was built, and the lands now belonging to it were handed over to this child. Roger Trewinion Among the papers of the late mistress of the manor house, were found two letters which from their dates showed that they had been written during her stay in Italy. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days He was looking away from her, studying the half-ruined, degraded manor house spread out below them. Robert Elsmere Vixen was sitting on the pilgrim's bench beside the manor house gateway, watching for her lover's return. Vixen, Volume III. Nicholas Ferrar meets her outside the manor house, and kneeling on the ground, asks and receives her blessing. Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies Here the Van Cortlandt family found a safe asylum when the manor house on the Croton was no longer tenable. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Life in Sir Thomas' home was very different from life at the manor house, both in doors and out. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days There are many historic spots, and several old manor houses still standing. A Little Girl of Long Ago This was a rather large request to make in a mediaeval manor house. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century This over, the “Psalm children” went to the manor house and repeated their Psalms. Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies We stick to the more modern road which crosses the Croton by means of two bridges landing one at the door yard of the old26 Van Cortlandt manor house. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five The manor house will be in the charge of a steward for the present. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days The cutter was now rapidly nearing the small harbour close to the manor house. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars Never was bird less satisfied to be shut up in a cage than the hapless prisoner in that manor house, whom the peasants of the neighbourhood knew as the White Lady. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century At Penshurst Spenser wrote part of his "Shepherd's Calendar," and Ben Jonson drank and rhymed and revelled in this stateliest of English manor houses. christmas in the hall. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries The manor house, a modest two-story building, hidden in vines, built of the rough brown sandstone of the region, gives no indication of decrepit age. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Connected with the manor house was an enclosure or courtyard commonly surrounded by buildings for general farm purposes and for cooking or brewing. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England The shipwrecked seamen were received into the manor house, and carefully tended. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars Byres will be able to ascertain very soon, for he knows the new keeper at the manor house.” The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook In this fine country, men of ability made fortunes in a few years and learned to imitate the life of the old southern manor houses. Expansion and Conflict The manor house, of rough grey stone, with thick walls and mullioned windows, stood on a rising ground; at its foot ran a little river, through great boulders. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset There were also a large number of detached attacks on persons and on manor houses, where manor court rolls and other documents were destroyed and property carried off. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England As they approached the manor house they were met by a loud shout; presently Roger came rushing out towards them. Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow Somewhere about the same time Mike approached the question at the old manor house. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days He was considerably more impressed with the substantial masonry of the manor house, with the size of the timber, the appointments of the stables, and the acreage of the park. Roger Ingleton, Minor Hard by the church is one of the most attractive and substantial of the smaller manor houses of Sussex, square and venerable and well-roofed with Horsham stone. Highways and Byways in Sussex There were also numerous instances of the destruction of court rolls found at the manor houses of lay lords of manors or obtained from the muniment rooms of the monasteries. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Chimneys were unknown, except in castles and manor houses, and the smoke escaped through the door or whatever other aperture it could reach. The Necessity of Atheism The first to show kindness to the ladies exiled at Hopton was Isabella Gayerson, who, in response to a letter from the rightful owner of the old manor house, called on Madame de Clericy. Dross The last seven years of his life were spent partly at Hammersmith and partly at Kelmscott, the old manor house, lying on the banks of the Upper Thames, which he had tenanted since 1878. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies In the hall or great room of the manor house was usually an enormous table used both as court of justice by the seignior and festive board. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom These rolls, kept either in manor houses, or in the castles of great lords, or in the monasteries, were the record of the burdens and payments and disabilities of the villagers. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England It was an old manor house set in the midst of an estate which from the outset spelled the word "home" for him. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers At the beginning of December the manor house at Bulford was obtained as a nucleus for a hospital and was equipped and manned by number one general hospital. On the Fringe of the Great Fight The manor house is of the early part of the 17th century, and other old houses remain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The manor houses were attacked, and all rent rolls, legal documents, lists of tenants and serfs destroyed. The Rise of the Democracy Is there a spare bed in the manor house, or shall I take down a cot with me, or let us say a hammock?' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont He had had the stones, cut in 1550, brought from an old Gothic manor house in Berry, which had sheltered his early youth. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" That beast of a Medicis does not want any more ruined manor houses. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter So we drove on in silence to where stands the beautiful manor house called Huntland, which is the residence of Mr. Joseph B. Thomas, M. F. H. of the Piedmont Hunt. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' The eastern part of the county, though, on the whole, less charming to the eye than the rest, contains some fine manor houses and interesting old parish churches. Hertfordshire There is something like a million at stake, together with my coveted manor house in the country, and my equally coveted mansion in Mayfair. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont I had before visited the manor houses and gentlemen's seats, and often found the inhabitants actuated by the purest benevolence, ready to lend their utmost aid for the welfare of their tenants. The Last Man I," said Marcel, "will go and sell a deserted manor house to old Medicis. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter One of these communities, of which I had direct information, purchased an estate of a landed proprietor, including the manor house, and began to work. Russian Rambles We read that the Manor was given by King Edgar to the Bishops of London, several of whom have resided at the old manor house. Hertfordshire The place was an ancient, secluded manor house, built so far back in the last century as 1896. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Our new domicile is no manor house, but new, and externally not inviting, but furnish'd within with every convenience. Charles Lamb As I approached the old manor house a thousand memories knocked at the door of my heart. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors One of the whitened stone wings of the old manor house stands unchanged. Russian Rambles The further stretch of park adjoining Brookman’s on the S. is Gubbins, or more correctly Gobions, where formerly stood the old manor house in which Sir Thomas More lived awhile with his family. Hertfordshire In a large room of this manor house, furnished with a luxuriant elegance one would not have expected in a region so far from humanising influences, sat two men. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont In 1692 Robert built the manor house, but did not reside in it for twenty years. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention How long a time came in between my futile dash for liberty and this harsh preface to their dragging of me back to the manor house, I could not tell. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady However, they did not use the manor house, but lived in one small peasant hut. Russian Rambles Temple Dinsley, a manor house a little E. from the Red Lion, stands on the site of the preceptory of the Knights Templars, founded by Bernard de Baliol in the reign of Stephen. Hertfordshire Presently a bend in the avenue brought the old manor house into view. A Little Mother to the Others Many beautiful manor houses were built in the early part of this period, which, like the churches of the time, were often ornamented with the exquisite wood carving of Grinling Gibbons. The Leading Facts of English History As you would guess, we looked to find the manor house turned into an outpost headquarters; but now we were desperate enough to face anything. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady On this occasion his demonstration took the form of selling the manor house, which was taken down and set up again on another estate in the same government by the purchaser. Russian Rambles A little W., and on the other side of the railway, is the mansion which occupies the site of Standon Lordship, a fine old manor house, of which hardly a vestige remains. Hertfordshire Let me question with thee, why thou hast felled my woods, spoiled my manor houses, and made havoc of such utensils as my father bequeathed unto me? Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy His visits were times of holiday, when discipline was relaxed, and the methodical economy of life at the manor house changed into festival. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York "To have some chance of hearing gossip to our purpose, we must make shift to gain admittance to this officers' rout at the manor house," I said. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady It had evidently been a manor house, and a very handsome one, too. Strange Pages from Family Papers The house does not occupy the site of the historic manor house visited by so many sovereigns, which stood on a slight eminence some distance to the N.W. Hertfordshire Rent day was a festal occasion, but the great day in the year at the manor house was New Year's Day. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 If the manor house belonged to the owner of many manors, it was sometimes inhabited by his bailiff. A Short History of English Agriculture Listen: to-night I got as far as the manor house, being fool enough to risk my neck for another sight of her. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady It was to the eyes of Englishmen, accustomed to the spacious manor houses of their own country, little more than a cabin. The Princess Pocahontas It began in the lanes and streets and in the barns and kitchens of old manor houses like Hatton Hall. The Measure of a Man But usually there was a social gulf between the cottage and the manor house. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 In the manor houses chimneys rarely existed, the fire being made in the middle of the hall. A Short History of English Agriculture The old manor house was generally full, for somehow both dreaded a tête-à-tête, and equally, in early days especially, a betrayal of the feeling. Bluebell A Novel The old manor house of Burgsdorf lay peaceful and quiet in the summer sunshine. The Northern Light Others were white manor houses with slate roofs. Jerusalem The ministrations of the manor house were often patriarchical and beneficent; the seigneur's wife was like the squire's wife in an English village. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 On some manors the demesne land lay in compact blocks near the manor house; on others it was in scattered strips of various size; in others it lay in blocks and strips. A Short History of English Agriculture The old manor house is located on a sightly elevation commanding a varied view of the surrounding hills and fertile valleys; to the northwest are to be seen the foot-hills of Mt. Polly Oliver's Problem She was sorry when a turn in the road brought them within sight of the old manor house. The S. W. F. Club Then they went to the ancient manor house now converted into a farm; and there the girl had friends who provided them with tea. The Spinners On making a formal call at the manor house one noted that some of the rooms were of fine proportions and that a good many old portraits and miniatures hung on the walls. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 Furniture of manor house, 52; labourer's home, 52. A Short History of English Agriculture For his House of Holiness and its management, Spenser has no doubt taken many suggestions from the great manor house of some Elizabethan gentleman. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I I have been learning with a master in Count de Chaumont's manor house less than a year. Lazarre There is unfortunately nothing left above the ground of the manor house of Roxby, the grass-covered site merely showing ridges and mounds where the buildings stood. The Evolution of an English Town Just across the bay stood another manor house; of stone, too, in this case not concealed by a covering of wood. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 A domain fairer than Elysium opened to their astonished gaze, whenever they penetrated some sylvan grove where stood the plantation manor house. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War In the Middle Ages most manor houses and churches were built of oak. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I De Chaumont's manor house, facing a winding avenue, could be seen from where we were. Lazarre "It's almost like burning your own manor house which you built yourself, and in which you expected to spend the remainder of your life," he said. The Rulers of the Lakes A Story of George and Champlain This manor house, also looked out on the bay and across the St. Lawrence. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 On either shore they saw the manor houses of the seigneurs, solid stone structures, low, steep of roof and gabled, with clustering outhouses, and often a stone mill near by. The Hunters of the Hills I woke back in the world again, in a world that contained the land steward and the manor house. The Inheritors They built for him the largest house in the community, a fine colonial manor house, where he dwelt in comparative luxury and reigned as their "King." Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Some of the Tudor manor houses can be copied with delightful effect. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The moment a parish was established a curé was entitled to the tithe; near every manor house, the village church was sure to spring up. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 They were married at an early hour in St. Mary's Church, and set off that same day for the old manor house, which was to be their future home. For the Faith The plan of the hall is suggestive of an old English manor house. The House in Good Taste I alighted at an old manor house, where I was to have apartments with a farmer and his family. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry Sir George's head-quarters were at his cousin's seat, the manor house of S. Owen. St George's Cross When, from time to time, a missionary priest visited the place he baptized children of Catholic and Protestant alike, including even the children of the Protestant family in the manor house. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 The château is not very large, standing close to the road in a small park, really more of a manor house than a château. Chateau and Country Life in France Among its most valued relics is a Bible given by Charles I. when on the scaffold to Bishop Juxon, who lived at Little Compton manor house, near Chastleton. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. |
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