manor house

He couldn't have known that Naomi had gone to elocution school and had been taught to speak like a little duchess in her own manor house.

Vanity and I saw him on the Manor House roof tiles one October midnight, talking to a winged shape too large to be a crow.

Maids who were out of harmony with their mistresses were like stables that did not match a manor house.

On the right, across a steep ravine, could be seen a little village and a manor-house with the roofs broken down.

Oakham castle, built in the 12th century, was once part of a fortified manor house but now consists mainly of the Great Hall.

Zimmer says the design theme was inspired by and meant to convey the look and feel of a turn-of-the-century English equestrian manor house.

At its heart was a medieval manor house, which itself had been aggrandised over the centuries.

A handsome manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive.

the forest was planted for their sake, and the manor-house was there that they might be boiled and laid on a silver dish.

THE BEATEN-UP RED car crunched up the driveway and came to a halt outside an English manor house.

Another discarded document rescued by the Malfoy Manor house elves and placed in a drawer in the parlour escritoire.

The architectural characteristics and aesthetic value of Mantang Hakka Manor House have demonstrated the human spirit of the Hakka people.

Over all presides the Queen Anne manor house, now the property of an egocentric actress and her fourth devoted husband.

After a false start I found the path to Cornwell parish church, tucked away behind the manor house.

She had come from the manor-house.

thus she conducted him by the arm to the stone bridge in front of their residence , crossing which they stood at the manor - house door.

Murk, dreariness in the hushed manor house; flies asleep on the ceiling.

Above a manor house in Buckinghamshire, the skies are ashen.

his family was rolling in wizard gold; he could just see Malfoy strutting around a large manor house.

Glass in the window panes is pasted over with fresh white snow, and the light in the manor house has a white, niveous hue;