All 9 Uses
manor
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The Good Soldier
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- They could not possibly keep up Branshaw Manor at that rate after the money had gone to the Grand Duke's mistress.†
Part 1 *
- So nearly all her investment turned up trumps, and Edward was really in fit case to reopen Branshaw Manor and once more to assume his position in the county.†
Part 1
- Yes, it was a bad fix for her, because Edward could have taken her to Fordingbridge, and, though he could not give her Branshaw Manor, that home of her ancestors being settled on his wife, she could at least have pretty considerably queened it there or thereabouts, what with our money and the support of the Ashburnhams.†
Part 2
- It would have meant the extinction of all hopes of Branshaw Manor for her.†
Part 2
- Well, he was an unmistakable man, with a military figure, rather exaggerated, with bulbous eyes that avoided your own, and a pallid complexion that suggested vices practised in secret along with an uneasy desire for making acquaintance at whatever cost....The filthy toad.... He began by telling me that he came from Ludlow Manor, near Ledbury.†
Part 2
- Branshaw Manor lies in a little hollow with lawns across it and pine-woods on the fringe of the dip.†
Part 3
- She had been one of seven daughters in a bare, untidy Irish manor-house to which she had returned from the convent I have so often spoken of.†
Part 3
- Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.†
Part 3
- Nevertheless, they chanced it, and all the three Ashburnhams came on a visit to the lonely manor-house.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)