manor
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Dreams of living in a Georgian manor house with 15 acres of grounds would usually be associated with a big lottery win.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His father Gyozo Orban, who is 85, owns several building material companies as well as the historic Hatvanpuszta estate he had rebuilt into a luxurious manor worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
We’re in the middle of nowhere in the north of England in an old manor house where her wedding was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
Beyond, he could see the manor house against a dark forest which crowned the hills far, far away.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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Think of the manors in “Clue,” or “Murder By Death.”
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
Ersatz Georgian manors sit next to re-created country cottages next to mock Industrial Age warehouses, now filled with low-rise luxury flats — and a nursing home.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
But Moorish-style manors, with horseshoe arches and keyhole windows, often sit beside boxy, white, Bauhaus-inspired villas on the coastal escarpment, so the discomfort is probably worth it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
The protagonist of James’s era — the scholar in his dim library — was supplanted in our imaginations by curious young women roaming gloomy manors and innocently unleashing hell.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
He wrote more about Ayortha than I ever wished to know: how the guilds were structured; the number of gallons of milk produced in a year by one Ayorthaian cow; the construction of their manors.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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