All 6 Uses of
manor
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
- He and his five men—Carn, Mandel, Baldor, Delwin, and Hamund—had stolen fresh horses from the stable of a manor house less than a half mile away.†
Chpt 13
- A show of swords had been sufficient to overcome their objections, but the grooms must have alerted the manor guards as soon as Roran and his companions had departed, for ten of the guards had set out after them, led by a pack of hunting dogs.†
Chpt 13
- Sumptuous estates stood here and there: sprawling stone manors protected by their own high walls and, Roran assumed, by their own guards.†
Chpt 16 *
- Stepping forward, Brigman pointed at the manors to the north and west.†
Chpt 16
- It's also a handy way of moving other goods, like timber and wine, from the manor houses to the city.†
Chpt 16
- He had, with Nasuada's approval, declared every slave within the city a free person, and he had personally gone to the manors and auction houses and cut loose many of the men, women, and children chained therein.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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
or historically:
the main house of a lord and the land around it that was worked by tenant farmers