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...Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always done her duty. However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice of her heart is released in full view. In this dramatic tale, the vivid description o...

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... her in Paris and fit in with the society matrons as though she were to the manor born. For my part, keeping company in large crowds still wore on ...

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...taff is therefore called a “weaver’s beam.” The Hebrew word for “beam” is MANOR (from OHR—Light). This refers to the Light of the letter combination...

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...it” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue that might solve the case. But, he decides to keep the clue private for personal reasons. In the meantime, Scotland Yard has no clues as the culprits or the motive. Dr. Boyd...

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...The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George ...

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... into the narrow garden below, for in truth the place was one of those old manor houses which their wealthy owners were fast desert- ing in favour of ... ...ress, Lady Belamour, who allowed him to live rent-free in this ruinous old Manor- house, the cradle of the family. This was all that Harriet and Aurel... ...his was all that Harriet and Aurelia knew. The latter had been born at the Manor, and young girls, if not brought ex- tremely forward, were treated li... ...ile his master made his way in by the kitchen entrance of the rambling old manor house, and entered a stone-paved low room, a sort of office or study,... ...njoying her society that he was almost consoled for not finding her at the Manor House; and his elaborate cour- tesy became every moment less artifici... ...vourite?” “I try not to make favourites, madam.” “Ah! there spoke the true Manor House tone,” said her Ladyship, rather mockingly. “Maybe she will be ... ... On receiving the tidings of your Marriage, I promise to settle on him the Manor House with an Annuity of Three hundred Pounds; but if he should suppo... ... is a different thing. I am not so foolish! And my dear papa will have the Manor House for ever! And Eu- gene will be able to go to a good school and ... ...our soon found out what her Ladyship’s threats and promises had been. “The Manor House?” he said. “That is the original nucleus of the property which ...

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...ld, in a fine style of architecture, and pre- senting a front of many windows to a lawn and garden. Behind, I could see outhouses and the peaked roofs...

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...that we have in our kingdom of France to call every one by the name of his manor or seigneury; ’tis the thing in the world that the most prejudices an... ...founds families and descents. A younger brother of a good family, having a manor left him by his father, by the name of which he has been known and ho...

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...piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee....

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...and took hold of the mud guard with his sunburnt hand. “V ozdvizhenskoe, the manor house? the count’s?” he repeated; “go on to the end of this track. ...

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...d, that if the Lord King would wa- ger one of the best and most profitable manors in the king- dom of France, he would give him a Spanish night of lov... ...Done,” said the king, jumping from his chair. “I’ll give thee, by God, the manor of Ville-aux-Dames in my province of Touraine, with full privilege of... ...ng. Madame, herself astonished, promised every assistance on her part. The manor of Azay-le-Brule, with a good title thereto, she undertook to confer ... ...e, and pretend, that as he had not gained his wager, he had not earned the manor. “Ventre-Saint-Paterne! I have been near enough,” said Jacques. “But ... ... but fair. The good Regent paid the bet, and handed over to her squire the manor of Azay-le-Brule, of which the castle had long before been demolished... ... stratagem arranged for St Bartholomew’s Day, the good man returned to his manor, which was not ornamented as it is at the present day. There he recei... ...ughly turned, and he installed this fine speaking rat and his tribe in his manor, where night and day his praises and little songs in his honour were ... ...ck to his house his portion of the true Cross, and had remained in his own manor, where, in spite of his Christian precautions, the said voice still a... ... dying of grief in Asiatic lands, and desired to return to his patrimonial manor. Now he had promised her who was speaking to preserve her from peril....

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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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...was not the plundered and dismantled castle all too vast for a lord of the manor shorn of all his ancient rights; too large for the landowner whose wo... ...e of my religions. To this day I can never climb the staircase of some old manor-house but my foolish imagination must needs picture Mlle. Armande sta... ...derived the greater part of their income from their rights as lords of the manor in the 16 The Collection of Antiquities shape of dues paid by those ... ...s morning), ‘do you suppose that if the d’Esgrignon family have lost their manorial rights, that therefore they have been robbed of their hoard of tre... ...me here a month ago; he has scarcely had time to shake the dust of his old manor house off his feet, to wipe off the brine in which his aunt kept him ... ...gs of victory. No one but a Chesnel, an old notary, an ex-stew- ard of the manor, old Maitre Sorbier’s junior clerk, in the 96 The Collection of Anti...

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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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...r race, was, contrary to Salic law, heiress of the name, the arms, and the manor. She was therefore Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne in her own right; her husba...

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...ned her eye— which she constrained to be watery—upon the angry Lady of the Manor, and wiped suds from her hands. “You forget, my lady, what I’m bearin...

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... at the time of his birth on alien soil? How on earth to find out? The book, which starts almost as a comedy of manners (and perhaps also a comedy of manors), takes on a darker and more sardonic tone with this mystery, and with some other suspected and actual romantic entanglements which are not entirely in the aristocratic Victorian rule-book. Among the large cast of char...

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...th thorough prow- ess of his hands, and so he keepeth from him a full fair manor and a rich, and therein Sir Ontzlake dwelleth worshipfully, and is we... ...saluted Accolon, and prayed him for to arise, and come and rest him at his manor. And so Accolon mounted upon a void horse, and went with the knight u... ...so Accolon mounted upon a void horse, and went with the knight unto a fair manor by a priory, and there he had passing good cheer. Then Sir Damas sent... ... your deeds, therefore I will that ye give unto your brother all the whole manor with the appurtenance, under this form, that Sir Ontzlake hold the ma... ...ll that he *Misnumbered xx. by Caxton. 130 Thomas Malory came unto a fair manor, where dwelled an old knight and a good householder, and there Sir Ga... ...ester, this country know I well, and hereby, within this mile, is a strong manor, and well dyked, and by that manor, on the left hand, there is a fair... ...long he did so, but he saw nothing. Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour. And then was he ware of a great knight that drove ... ...air sir, said she, take this wounded knight’s horse and send him into this manor, and command him to deliver all the pris- oners. So Sir Launcelot wen... ...Gawaine’s sake, your own dear brother; and when that ye come within yonder manor, I am sure ye shall find there many knights of the Round Table, for I...

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...ester, this country know I well, and hereby, within this mile, is a strong manor, and well dyked, and by that manor, on the left hand, there is a fair... ...long he did so, but he saw nothing. Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour. And then was he ware of a great knight that drove ... ...air sir, said she, take this wounded knight’s horse and send him into this manor, and command him to deliver all the pris- oners. So Sir Launcelot wen... ...Gawaine’s sake, your own dear brother; and when that ye come within yonder manor, I am sure ye shall find there many knights of the Round Table, for I... ...ve my promise. And so he departed from Gaheris, and Gaheris yede in to the manor, and there he found a yeoman porter keeping there many keys. Anon wit... ...eat marsh, and ever Sir Launcelot followed. And then was he ware of an old manor, and thither ran the brachet, and so over the bridge. So Sir Launcelo...

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...e and Tyne, by Thames and Tees, By a’ the various river-Dee’s, In Mars and Manors ‘yont the seas Or here at hame, Whaure’er there’s kindly folk to ple...

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...commend you!” saith Messire Gawain. With that, he issueth forth of the Waste Manor and betaketh 66 The High History of the Holy Graal him back to the... ...deth in the thick of the forest a great chapel, and without was a right fair manor. Before the chapel was an orchard enclosed of a wooden fence that w... ... that I did to knights was this penance laid upon me in this forest and this manor, to last until such time as you should come. For the cruelty I did ... ... this chamber all the knights that are slain in this forest, and within this manor must I cast them according to the custom thereof, alone, without co... ...eemed they would rend it all up by the roots. Afterward, they enter into the manor and snatch great blazing fire brands and fling them one at another... ...ts that told them they were going to search for the bodies that were in this manor so that they might bury them in a waste chapel that was hard by, fo... ...he coming of Lancelot. They rode until that they came one night to the Waste Manor whither the brachet led Messire Gawain when he found the dead knigh... ...und there knights and damsels of whom they were known. The Lady of the Waste Manor sent for succour to her knights, saying that she held there King Ar... ...him back with Lancelot. They ride until they happen by chance upon the Waste Manor 260 The High History of the Holy Graal where the King and Messire ...

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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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...He was a friend to the clergy, a founder of churches and convents, and his manor house of Hadleigh was a home of hospitality and charity. It would pro...

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...Parker is not the man to forget it. We are going there, now. It is the old Manor House of these parts, and stood in the country once. Then, perhaps, ...

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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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...hese things were not contin- ued. They could not possibly keep up Branshaw Manor at that rate after the money had gone to the Grand Duke’s mistress. S... ...ent turned up trumps, and Edward was really in fit case to reopen Branshaw Manor and once more to assume his position in the county. Thus Leonora had ... ...ave taken her to Fordingbridge, and, though he could not give her Branshaw Manor , that home of her ancestors being settled on his wife, she could at ... ...rious in this. It would have meant the extinction of all hopes of Branshaw Manor for her. Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was a... ...cost… . The filthy toad… . He began by telling me that he came from Ludlow Manor, near Ledbury. The name had a slightly familiar sound, though I could... ... in a deep arm-chair. That is what I re- member. It was twilight. Branshaw Manor lies in a little hollow with lawns across it and pine-woods on the fr... ...ed off to him. She had been one of seven daughters in a bare, untidy Irish manor-house to which she had returned from the convent I have so often spok... ...ng straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been... ...ey chanced it, and all the three Ashburnhams came on a visit to the lonely manor-house. They could give Edward some rough shooting, some rough fishing...

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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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...ll be at the ancient rent, without any in crease, excepting in our Demesne manors. 26 If any one holding of us a lay fee dies, and the Sher iff or...

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...y money, sir, what! all? Why—if I must’—(then wept)—’I give it Paul.’ ‘The manor, sir?’—’The manor! hold,’ (he cried), 260 ‘Not that—I cannot... ... a pie; The sturdy squire to Gallic masters stoop, And drown his lands and manors in a soup. Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to...

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...are you not as much at your ease in a cheap lodging as in an Elizabe- than manor-house? Do you enjoy fine clothes? It is not pos- sible to answer thes...

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...at many a city and commune, holding joust and tourney in many a castle and manor of Navarre, Poitou, and St. Germain l’Auxerrois, the warrior and his ...

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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...