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A great-grandson of the elder Sir Philip was created Earl Manvers in
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By the side of the bright and dashing Manvers, rose to the visionary eyes of the beautiful girl the pale and thoughtful features of Mr Lawleigh.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Manvers had proposed: had she accepted him? did she love him? ay, did she love him?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Again there was no prospect of male heirs, so the Duke left the Clumber property to his sister's son, Thomas Lord Pelham, who traced his descent from Bess of Hardwick through the Pierrepoints (Earls Manvers).
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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The present house, which was designed by Salvin in 1868, is the third home of the Manvers which has occupied this site.
What to See in England Gordon Home 1923
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Such were the words of the hapless Mordake to Manvers and Treadwell, his physicians.
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Manvers, its price being the manors of Holbeck and Bonbusk, near
The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892
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Meadows, who in 1806 was created first Earl Manvers.
The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892
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Manvers drove him delicately from point to point, involving him in his own contradictions, rolling him in his own ambiguities, till -- suddenly -- vague recollections began to stir in the victim's mind.
The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885
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Manvers by name, the possessor of a long, tanned countenance; of thin iron-gray hair, descending toward the shoulders; of a drooping moustache, and eyes that mostly studied the carpet or the knees of their owner.
The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885
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