manor-house

The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited.

Sole Music 2010

In the court of the old mansion, half manor-place, half farm-house, or rather a decayed manor-house, converted into an abode for a Cumberland tenant, stood several saddled horses.

Redgauntlet 2008

The action takes place at Rosmersholm, an old manor-house in the neighbourhood of a small town on a fjord in western Norway.

Rosmersholm 2008

Initially, the private and residential sectors of the manor-house were destroyed partly in 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war and the remaining part was demolished in recent decade as the result of the dam construction activities.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

The action takes place at Rosmersholm, an old manor-house in the neighbourhood of a small town on a fjord in western Norway.

Rosmersholm 2008

And yet the manners and spirit of the noble in his ruined manor-house, the knowledge of the traditions of good breeding, — these things covered a multitude of deficiencies.

Two Poets 2007

The leech for the soul, and he for the body, alighted in the court of the little old manor-house at almost the same time; and when they had gazed a moment at each other with some surprise, they in the same breath expressed their conviction that Dumbiedikes must needs be very ill indeed, since he summoned them both to his presence at once.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Eg., right now I'm doing a Sherlockian/Agatha-Christiean manor-house murder mystery of excruciating Englishness in that universe and it's a complete hoot to write.

The Virtues of Repression Walter Jon Williams 2007

He built a new manor-house, and in his capacity of lord of the manor replaced the dilapidated little church of the estate by a new one, very small, very plain, and about which, notwithstanding its famous inscription of which he so often boasted, — "Deo erexit Voltaire," — much more noise has been made, than so simple and natural a proceeding at all calls for.

Voltaire 2007

And yet the manners and spirit of the noble in his ruined manor-house, the knowledge of the traditions of good breeding, — these things covered a multitude of deficiencies.

Two Poets 2007