Sentence examples for a small manor from inspiring English sources
In David Ivie's tiny, spooky painting, "Memorial," a nude male figure lies atop a tombstone in the snowy front yard of a small manor house, desultorily attended by a male and a female mourner.
Once a small manor, then an alehouse, the T-shaped 17th-century cottage where the Lees lived from 1918 still nestles in its hidden dell below the road, with "its walls so thick that they kept a damp chill inside them whatever the weather".
The west wing of the house is actually a replica of Sulgrave Manor, a small manor house in Northamptonshire, England, which once belonged to Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of America's first president, George Washington.
The lovely small manor house, decorated with hunting prints and deeply comfortable furniture, is supplemented by 10 thatch-roofed, tent-sided bungalows high above the Zambezi.
Third, there were parishes divided into small manors comprised mainly of demesne and villein tenements as a result of the advance of demesne farming in lesser estates after 1066.
Many of these parishes had already been split into small manors in 1086.
Fourth, there were non-manorialised parishes separated into small manors dominated by free tenements.
A chronicle of life in the heyday of her native Värmland's history, the age of prosperous iron founders and small manors, the book recounts the story of the 12 Cavaliers, led by Gösta Berling, a renegade priest of weak character but irresistible charm.
Highgrove is a 15-acre series of separate gardens more or less surrounding a small, handsome, balustraded manor house built in the 1790s.
Only after a few more razzle-dazzlers take place -- over Elliot Goldenthal's moody scoring -- do the affianced Duke Theseus (Roger Clark) and Queen Hippolyta (Okwui Okpokwasili) appear from a small white upstage manor, and the play proper begin.
The islands come complete with a small village, three manors and a vineyard that can bottle 228,000 bottles of your own personal wine every year.
