All 18 Uses
manor
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The Secret Garden
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- When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.†
p. 1.1 *
- But she thought over it a great deal afterward; and when Mrs. Crawford told her that night that she was going to sail away to England in a few days and go to her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven, who lived at Misselthwaite Manor, she looked so stony and stubbornly uninterested that they did not know what to think about her.†
p. 9.5
- The woman was his housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor, and her name was Mrs. Medlock.†
p. 10.3
- She had not wanted to go to London just when her sister Maria's daughter was going to be married, but she had a comfortable, well paid place as housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor and the only way in which she could keep it was to do at once what Mr. Archibald Craven told her to do.†
p. 11.8
- What you're to be kept at Misselthwaite Manor for I don't know, unless because it's the easiest way.†
p. 13.6
- We've got to drive five miles across Missel Moor before we get to the Manor.†
p. 17.8
- It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life.†
p. 20.9
- It had not been the custom that Mistress Mary should do anything but stand and allow herself to be dressed like a doll, but before she was ready for breakfast she began to suspect that her life at Misselthwaite Manor would end by teaching her a number of things quite new to her—things such as putting on her own shoes and stockings, and picking up things she let fall.†
p. 26.2
- This gave her so much to think of that she began to be quite interested and feel that she was not sorry that she had come to Misselthwaite Manor.†
p. 41.7
- Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor.†
p. 43.6
- On this occasion he was away from Misselthwaite Manor until afternoon.†
p. 167.4
- It was in these twilight hours that Mrs. Sowerby heard of all that happened at Misselthwaite Manor.†
p. 218.5
- It was a good thing that lit tle lass came to th' Manor.†
p. 219.1
- "What do they make of it at th' Manor—him being so well an' cheerful an' never complainin'?" she inquired.†
p. 219.2
- He was a tall man with a drawn face and crooked shoulders and the name he always entered on hotel registers was, "Archibald Craven, Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire, England."†
p. 249.5
- "Our Dickon," they volunteered, was over at the Manor working in one of the gardens where he went several days each week.†
p. 255.6
- When he arrived at the Manor the servants who received him with the usual ceremony noticed that he looked better and that he did not go to the remote rooms where he usually lived attended by Pitcher.†
p. 256.4
- Ben Weatherstaff's duties rarely took him away from the gardens, but on this occasion he made an excuse to carry some vegetables to the kitchen and being invited into the servants' hall by Mrs. Medlock to drink a glass of beer he was on the spot—as he had hoped to be—when the most dramatic event Misselthwaite Manor had seen during the present generation actually took place.†
p. 261.2
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)