All 24 Uses of
manor
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Casaubon's home was the manor-house.†
Chpt 1 *
- In the beginning of his career, Mr. Casaubon had only held the living, but the death of his brother had put him in possession of the manor also.†
Chpt 1
- The servant was Sir James Chettam's, and the house was Lowick Manor.†
Chpt 3
- Mr. and Mrs. Casaubon, returning from their wedding journey, arrived at Lowick Manor in the middle of January.†
Chpt 3
- "Of course she is devoted to her husband," said Rosamond, implying a notion of necessary sequence which the scientific man regarded as the prettiest possible for a woman; but she was thinking at the same time that it was not so very melancholy to be mistress of Lowick Manor with a husband likely to die soon.†
Chpt 3
- This distinction conferred on the Rector of Tipton and Freshitt was the reason why Mrs. Cadwallader made one of the group that watched old Featherstone's funeral from an upper window of the manor.†
Chpt 4
- He found out at last that he wanted to take a particular sketch at Lowick; and one morning when Mr. Brooke had to drive along the Lowick road on his way to the county town, Will asked to be set down with his sketch-book and camp-stool at Lowick, and without announcing himself at the Manor settled himself to sketch in a position where he must see Dorothea if she came out to walk—and he knew that she usually walked an hour in the morning.†
Chpt 4
- But he had forbidden Will to come to Lowick Manor, and he was mentally preparing other measures of frustration.†
Chpt 4
- One of the professional calls made by Lydgate soon after his return from his wedding-journey was to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a letter which had requested him to fix a time for his visit.†
Chpt 4
- But Mr. Brooke had been right in predicting that Dorothea would not long remain passive where action had been assigned to her; she knew the purport of her husband's will made at the time of their marriage, and her mind, as soon as she was clearly conscious of her position, was silently occupied with what she ought to do as the owner of Lowick Manor with the patronage of the living attached to it.†
Chpt 5
- By that delightful morning when the hay-ricks at Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr. Raffles had been a guest worthy of finest incense, Dorothea had again taken up her abode at Lowick Manor.†
Chpt 6
- So by the end of June the shutters were all opened at Lowick Manor, and the morning gazed calmly into the library, shining on the rows of note-books as it shines on the weary waste planted with huge stones, the mute memorial of a forgotten faith; and the evening laden with roses entered silently into the blue-green boudoir where Dorothea chose oftenest to sit.†
Chpt 6
- One morning, about eleven, Dorothea was seated in her boudoir with a map of the land attached to the manor and other papers before her, which were to help her in making an exact statement for herself of her income and affairs.†
Chpt 6
- With this good understanding between them, it was natural that Dorothea asked Mr. Garth to undertake any business connected with the three farms and the numerous tenements attached to Lowick Manor; indeed, his expectation of getting work for two was being fast fulfilled.†
Chpt 6
- …not long after that interview between Mr. Farebrother and Mary Garth, in which she confessed to him her feeling for Fred Vincy, it happened that her father had some business which took him to Yoddrell's farm in the direction of Frick: it was to measure and value an outlying piece of land belonging to Lowick Manor, which Caleb expected to dispose of advantageously for Dorothea (it must be confessed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies).†
Chpt 6
- He left the letter at the office, ordering the messenger to carry it to Lowick Manor, and wait for an answer.†
Chpt 6
- "I have sent a letter to Lowick Manor to-day, asking leave to see you," said Will, seating himself opposite to her.†
Chpt 6
- …bills coming in from his tradesmen, with Dover's threatening hold on his furniture, and with nothing to depend on but slow dribbling payments from patients who must not be offended—for the handsome fees he had had from Freshitt Hall and Lowick Manor had been easily absorbed—nothing less than a thousand pounds would have freed him from actual embarrassment, and left a residue which, according to the favorite phrase of hopefulness in such circumstances, would have given him "time to look…†
Chpt 7
- When the carriage drove up to the gate of the Manor, Dorothea was out on the gravel, and came to greet them.†
Chpt 7
- Two days afterwards, he was dining at the Manor with her uncle and the Chettams, and when the dessert was standing uneaten, the servants were out of the room, and Mr. Brooke was nodding in a nap, she returned to the subject with renewed vivacity.†
Chpt 8
- Some days later, Lydgate was riding to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a summons from Dorothea.†
Chpt 8
- There was a frequent interchange of visits between her and the Farebrother family, which enabled her to say that she was not at all lonely at the Manor, and to resist for the present the severe prescription of a lady companion.†
Chpt 8
- He gave her his arm back to the Manor, but Dorothea did not attempt to speak, even when he said good-night.†
Chpt 8
- He had meant to confide in Lydgate, and discuss the money question with him, and he had meant to amuse himself for the few evenings of his stay by having a great deal of music and badinage with fair Rosamond, without neglecting his friends at Lowick Parsonage:—if the Parsonage was close to the Manor, that was no fault of his.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(manor) a large house of a wealthy person
or historically:
the main house of a lord and the land around it that was worked by tenant farmers