manor

Example Sentences

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Lai’s novel is set on the crumbling estate of an old English house where Penelope, a young archivist, is making a careful inventory of the manor’s artworks.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the quirks of this movie’s swampy Louisiana plantation-style manor is that some of its ghosts — 999 in total — have a pesky habit of following visitors home.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1973 Beatle George Harrison gifted a manor house to the Hare Krishna movement so they could have a base in the UK.

From BBC

The charity described the hall as a "rare Tudor manor with a Victorian personality", which is home to "a priest hole, Gothic Revival furniture and William Morris wallpaper".

From BBC

Having returned to London in 1577, Byrd eventually moved out into Middlesex, close to a manor of his first Catholic patron, Lord Thomas Paget, amid a period of troubles for Catholics.

From New York Times