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...s social life, and told the practised eye that there was no great park and manor- house in the vicinity, but that there were several chiefs in Raveloe...

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...m- selves. But this is a digression. In the court of the old mansion, half manor-place, half farm-house, or rather a decayed manor-house, converted in...

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... and having been a great sinner in his life time, and having drawn lands, manors, and a great mass of wealth into his clutches, by violent and unfair... ...e, wherever it was, was empty. But on the threshold of the door of the old manor house there was the print of a bloody footstep; and no trouble that ... ... subject that was hate ful to him, with which this old English estate and manor house and family were somehow connected; and, moreover, had he spoke... ...ssess it) they prided themselves, it is said, more than on their an cient manor house. It was a Saxon ornament, which a cer tain ancestor was said t... ...him, if he willed to accept it? He resumed his walk, and, drawing near the manor house, found that he was approaching another entrance than that which... ... a conscience, a sense of un seen things. It seemed as if underneath this manor house were the entrance to the cave of Trophonius, one visit to which... ...aithwaite. “You find the estate, then, so delightful,—this life of the old manor house so exquisitely agreeable,—this air so cheering,—this moral atmo...

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...gance, and richness of their dwellings (witness Varangeville, the splendid manor-house of Ango, and the mansion, called that of Hercules, in Paris), e... ...ood rather than stone, a period when noblemen alone had the right to build manors,—a significant word. Having served as the dwelling of the king at a ... ...ne, and Lallier gave as much more, for the pur- chase of a fine seignorial manor in Picardy, the price of which was five hundred thousand francs. As t... ...r in Picardy, the price of which was five hundred thousand francs. As this manor was a ten- ure from the Crown it was necessary to obtain letters-pate... ...ed. Though the burghers of Paris had lately acquired the right to purchase manors, the wisdom of the privy council had been exercised in putting certa... ...er’s marriage contract,” cried Lallier, “I will pay the whole price of the manor.” “The ladies may sit down,” said the young king, graciously: “As a w... ...the bride I remit, with my mother’s consent, all my dues and rights in the manor.” Old Lecamus and Lallier fell on their knees and kissed the king’s h... ...gouleme. Catherine had already given Marie Touchet, who asked nothing, the manor of Belleville, an estate close to Vincennes which carried no title; a...

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... T emplar, with his Saracen slaves—they will regard neither territory, nor manor, nor lordship.” “Our road,” said the Palmer, “should here separate; f... ...wered Waldemar Fitzurse, “this gallant is likely to reclaim the castle and manor which Richard assigned to him, and which your Highness’s generosity h... ....” “Front-de-Boeuf,” replied John, “is a man more willing to swallow three manors such as Ivanhoe, than to disgorge one of them. For the rest, sirs, I... ...t’s pause, “that my brother proposed to confer upon his favourite the rich manor of Ivanhoe.” “He did endow him with it,” answered Cedric; “nor is it ... ...purchasing from them pardon and absolution at the price of treasure and of manors. Nor did the T emplar, an in- fidel of another stamp, justly charact... ...e, where the attorney is now a man of more importance than the lord of the manor. While I own the force of these objections, I must confess, at the sa...

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...ned stone entablature and labels which adorn them. This tenement, once the manor house of the Earl’s Closes, we still retain a slight hold upon; for, ...

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...pinching hill-roads, draw up before a cottage in Teviotdale, or perhaps in Manor Glen among the rowans, and the old people receiving the parcel with m...

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...h and sing. I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song. COUNTESS: Let me see what he writes, and when he means t...

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... fortune at cards, and lived almost like a peas- ant in his little granite manor on the moors. . . I have said I would add nothing of my own to this b...

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...ounty; but as he was now provided with a good house and the lib- erty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his t... ...“I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet’s manor. I am sure he will be vastly happy to oblige you, and will save all t...

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...s then slipping from his grasp as that he refuses to re- sign a particular manor, Pope forgot that even a jest-book must govern its jokes by some rega...

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...t have been surprised if Sir Walter had asked more; had inquired about the manor; would be glad of the deputation, certainly, but made no great point ...

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...ited him was, perhaps, ascribable to the fact of his being the lord of the manor. Like Captain Bob, he was, in some things, a gentleman of the old sch...

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...oden gate leading into the garden—once the well-tended kitchen-garden of a manor-house; now, but for the handsome brick wall with stone coping that ra... ...very much like Treddleston— where the arms of the neighbouring lord of the manor were borne on the sign of the principal inn; then mere fields and hed...

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...gether. The process of visualizing Katharine stopped short at the old gray manor-house; instinct warned him that if he went much further with this pro... ...fectly flat and richly green meadow at the bottom of the hill a small gray manor-house, with ponds, ter- races, and clipped hedges in front of it, a f...

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...of the house. The library was almost the only surviving portion of the old manor-house of Bellomont: a long spacious room, revealing the traditions of...

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... encouraging their taste by admitting them to a resi- dence within his own manor. Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters were met at the door of the house by...

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...erical—he could look at the matter with the eyes of an English lord of the manor, accustomed not to view the peasant as a sponge to be squeezed for th...

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... to power. Thanks to you, and me, Lucien has just pur- chased his maternal manor, the old Chateau de Rubempre, which, indeed, did not cost much—thirty...

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... with whom it remained till seven; then it was taken to Miss Brooks at the Manor House, who, since she got it late, had the advantage of keeping it. I...

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... complain, whose ancestors are there, Erneis, Radulphus— eight and forty manors (If that my memory doth not greatly err) Were their reward f... ... it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In ... ...nstable, beneath a warrant’s banner, Had bagg’d this poacher upon Nature’s manor. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Sixteen” 331 Now justices of peace m...

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...his brow? Lo, now my glory smear’d in dust and blood! My parks, my walks, my manors that I had. Even now forsake me, and of all my lands Is nothing le...

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...AM: O, many Have broke their backs with laying manors on ‘em For this great journey. What did this vanity But minister c...

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...ight. Beyond, on the side of a slope, lie some scattered peasants’ huts, a manor house, and, flanking the latter, a village church with its cross flas... ... there can be seen mingling with the green of the trees the red roofs of a manorial homestead, while behind the upper stories of the mansion proper an... ... but what a prospect!” Then who is the dweller in, the proprietor of, this manor—a manor to which, as to an impregnable fortress, entrance cannot be g... ...rked, umbrageous trees which stood scattered over turf and extended to the manor-house it- self, and caught glimpses of the carved huts of the peas- a... ...es of the carved huts of the peas- ants, and of the red roofs of the stone manorial outbuild- ings, and of the glittering pinnacles of the church, and... ...That is to say, it was not long before Tientietnikov no- ticed that on the manorial lands, nothing prospered to the extent that it did on the peasants... ... lands, nothing prospered to the extent that it did on the peasants’ . The manorial crops were sown in good time, and came up well, and every one appe... ...re near a wooden church, with, showing beyond the latter, the roofs of the manorial homestead. “A queer fellow, that Koshkarev!” said Chichikov to him... ...uperficial as to be unable to explain matters of this kind.” At length the manor appeared in sight—an establish- ment looking almost like a town, so n...

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...manner and form following, sir; all those three: I was seen with her in the manor house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following her into...

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...be loosed nor hawk flown without special permis- sion from the lord of the manor. He was, however, riding in the rear of the rest, up a narrow lane le...

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...euil-le-Hardouin and Crepy. At a distance he perceived the Castle of Louis of Orleans, which, 131 Dumas having become part of the crown domain, was k...

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... 319 Adam Smith lated by any precise rule, but by the use and wont of the manor or barony. These services, therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary... ...upon the persons and goods of travellers, when they passed through certain manors, when they went over certain bridges, when they carried about their ... ...of all the different countries of Europe, who used frequently to let whole manors to all the tenants of those manors, they becoming jointly and severa... ...t Earl of Warwick is said to have entertained every day , at his different manors, 30,000 people; and though the number here may have been exaggerated... ...he jurisdictions of the clergy, therefore, in their particular baronies or manors, were equally independent, and equally exclusive of the authority of... ...ed church, such parts of it excepted as may arise from particular lands or manors, is a branch, it ought to be observed, of the general revenue of the...

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...grepelisse, the daughter of a noble long relegated to the obscurity of his manor-house, scion though 34 Two Poets he was of the younger branch of one... ...Abbe Niollant, the Abbe Roze’s best pupil, found a hiding-place in the old manor-house of Escarbas, and brought with him his baggage of musical compos... ...red the society. And yet the manners and spirit of the noble in his ruined manor-house, the knowledge of the traditions of good breeding,—these things...

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... lads were eating lunch or sporting about. Beyond was the garden of an old manor. It had yew-hedges and thick clumps and borders of yellow crocuses ro... ... stage. On the Easter Monday the same party took an excursion to Wingfield Manor. It was great excitement to Miriam to catch a train at Sethley Bridge... ...she was silent. It was past midday when they climbed the steep path to the manor. All things shone softly in the sun, which was wonderfully warm and e... ...castle walls, the gentleness of everything near the ruin, was perfect. The manor is of hard, pale grey stone, and the other walls are blank and calm. ... ...oded country, and country with gleams of pasture. The crypt underneath the manor was beautiful, and in perfect preservation. Paul made a drawing: Miri... ...181 D.H. Lawrence They set off again gaily, looking round on their beloved manor that stood so clean and big on its hill. “Supposing you could have th...

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...at the Allan house. From his eighth to his thirteenth year he attended the Manor House school, at Stoke-Newington, a suburb of London. It was the Rev.... ...name of Bessop, which, time out of mind, had held possession of an ancient manor-house, about four miles to the northward of the Island. I accordingly...

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...con- vey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England. I saw here abundance of cocoa trees, orange, and lemon, a... ... for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying; I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole...

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...o strong beer, there’ s enough of it in the cellars already , to drown the Manor House.” “Is that the name of this house, miss?” “One of its names, bo... ...age was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House. We traversed but one side of the square, however, and at the e...

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...en everything was settled for his expulsion, quitted Pisa, and repaired to a manor of his called Settimo; whence, as soon as he was informed of Nino’s...

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...e by ourselves at the Mitre, to keep up the old custom, “the custom of the manor,” the custom of the mitre.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, so it shall be.’ On Saturd...

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...to Lowick in company with her uncle and Celia. Mr. Casaubon’s home was the manor-house. Close by, visible from some parts of the garden, was the littl... ... the living, but the death of his brother had put him in possession of the manor also. It had a small park, with a fine old oak here and there, and an... ...this kind. The ser- vant was Sir James Chettam’s, and the house was Lowick Manor. 249 George Eliot CHAPTER XXVIII 1st Gent. All times are good to... ...D MRS. CASAUBON, returning from their wedding jour- ney, arrived at Lowick Manor in the middle of January. A light snow was falling as they descended ... ...he same time that it was not so very melan- choly to be mistress of Lowick Manor with a husband likely to die soon. “Do you think her very handsome?” ... ...roup that watched old Featherstone’s funeral from an upper win- dow of the manor. She was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said,... ...tch-book and camp-stool at Lowick, and without announc- ing himself at the Manor settled himself to sketch in a position where he must see Dorothea if... ...ined proudly, bitterly silent. But he had forbidden Will to come to Lowick Manor, and he was mentally preparing other measures of frustration. CHAPTER... ...de by Lydgate soon after his return from his wedding-journey was to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a letter which had requested him to fix a time for...

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...him to live farther in the country in ony of his better and mair principal manors; but, for its antiquity, maist folk think that the out- side of Wolf...

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... grew “proud” within him when he came on a burn- course among the braes of Manor that shone purple with their graceful trophies; and not all his appre... ...its though perhaps the bees too were linked to him by some recollection of Manor braes and his country childhood. Nev- ertheless, he was too chary of ... ...memory. How often and willingly do I not look again in fancy on Tummel, or Manor, or the talking Airdle, or Dee swirling in its Lynn; on the bright bu...