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...parently kindly, made it sound like she was trying to be the beloved lady of the manor. However, pleasantries exchanged, the Randersons were keen to...

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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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...urtyard in front of the building permitted large numbers of troops to train or defend the manor. A thick wall of roughly hewn stone encircled the co...

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...hand to the conviction of the miners that ore is present; but then the peculiar manor in which the twig is held bringing muscular action to bear upo...

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...stand why you were brought here, rather than to the new stable closer to the manor house.” Goose bumps had formed on Angus’ arms; now hot anger melted... ...p, clinging wool did not improve his humor. “ I trust there is still but one manor house?” “Yes. I...” “I will find it. Go back to your bottle and wen... ...er cheeks, had answered his repeated pounding on the 150 The Emerald Dagger manor door. A knowing glance, belying the innocence of her face, had swep...

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...atch, and shall (we hope) in breeding, England to steade with antient MANORS race: So be you (when we you in praise compare) As kinde, in k...

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... told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the manorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a di... ... the shadows were attenuated as to form. The creeping plants about the old manor house were bowed with rows of heavy water drops, which had upon objec... ...ter to morrow: God help me! Perhaps I shall be in my grave before then.’ A manor house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a ... ...ould have for Bathsheba just now. By the time that Gabriel reached the old manor house, her residence, which lay in his way to the church, it was quit...

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... his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of h... ...r, “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 a...

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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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...help.” “I know you do. You and Aislinn can’t handle all of the duties of our manor. I shall have to hire you someone. We’re nobles after all, why...

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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...