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  • A Jean Jouvenet in Saint-Brieuc, six Monets in the area, a Faberge egg in a manor house near Rennes.†   (source)
  • You always were a lord of the manor, weren't you?†   (source)
  • The Manor.†   (source)
  • It didn't look threatening, just a four-story manor painted baby blue with white trim.†   (source)
  • In order to commute more efficiently between their opulent Connecticut manor and an art-filled apartment on Central Park West staffed with uniformed servants, she and her husband bought a helicopter and learned to fly it.†   (source)
  • I was born in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • And so began my first of many visits to "Marsh Manor."†   (source)
  • He looked as if he could have just dismounted a horse at a nobleman's manor.†   (source)
  • The Mira Mar Manor—'located near your current residence,' it says, 'with amenities typical of a five-star hotel.'†   (source)
  • Both Olmsted and Hunt were hard at work on George Washington Vanderbilt's manor, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina, and together had built the Vanderbilt family's mausoleum.†   (source)
  • Her family horse farm has been sold off after her father's death, and although she's been little more than a drudge in the family structure, she can't bear to leave and go to the only place, a manor house, that will take her in.†   (source)
  • And ain't half the bleedin' town seen that old Papist monk that walks the battlements of Ridgeheath Manor?†   (source)
  • It is conveniently situated on one corner of the village square, a rather charming ivy-covered manor house capable of housing, I would suppose, thirty or so guests.†   (source)
  • "You expect to make it to the earl's manor in four days?" he asked quietly.†   (source)
  • By 1938, having already outgrown its quarters on East Ninety-third Street, the school used budding support from Cleveland high society to buy at a nominal fee a forty-two-room English manor on Magnolia Street in University Circle.†   (source)
  • But I needed to break away and drive a few blocks over to the Imperial Manor nursing home to visit a man named Harold Greer.†   (source)
  • Given our father's characteristic air of superiority, I secretly expected him to live in a manor house surrounded by grounds and serviced by a liveried staff.†   (source)
  • The farmhouse was too small to be called a manor, but it was considerably larger than the rest of the houses in the settlement.†   (source)
  • In and of itself, that assured that I would survive, for any manor institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose because I will not part with it at any price or under any pressure.†   (source)
  • In the manor house, which was paved with tomblike slabs, the sun was never seen.†   (source)
  • Sumptuous estates stood here and there: sprawling stone manors protected by their own high walls and, Roran assumed, by their own guards.†   (source)
  • When we reached the manor, Father ordered me to change into something clean and to hurry down to greet the guests who were arriving to pay their respects.†   (source)
  • We climbed the hill up toward Ravenwood Manor, the great house.†   (source)
  • Dear Mr. Marsh: My name is Doris McClellan, and two years ago, I read your story in Scientific American about the poltergeist haunting Brenton Manor in Newport, Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • I stopped the car in front of a small building with white pillars like those of an old plantation manor house, got out and opened the door.†   (source)
  • She made it sound like she was the lady of the manor lamenting her romance with the garbage man.†   (source)
  • She was the general's wife, the mistress of the manor, wasn't she?†   (source)
  • In addition to a columned manor house commanding one ridge, there were all the requisite lakes and waterfalls, bridges and architectural niceties—a Temple of Victory, Temple of Venus, Temple of Bacchus, a faux Gothic temple—everything romantic in spirit.†   (source)
  • Trace the bloodlines of servants and stable boys and you'll find that many lead to the local manor.†   (source)
  • At that time, the Institute was more of a training ground for gentlemen of the manor than anything else.†   (source)
  • This, of course, was no manor, but I suppose a house rife with any human activity has something over one unsettlingly spacious and silent.†   (source)
  • When the lord of the manor met his assembled serfs they were always intoxicated with happiness that they could neither justify, nor explain, nor prolong in his absence.†   (source)
  • At the end of it, ivied and stately, stood a large manor house.†   (source)
  • The reason I want you to know something about peanuts as a crop is simply because if you're going to be the chatelaine of the manor, there are times when you'll have to have a hand in the running of the operations.†   (source)
  • POZZO: I must have left it at the manor.†   (source)
  • I was once offered a whole village, with a mill, and a manor house, and heaven knows what else-a coat of arms, I shouldn't be surprised.†   (source)
  • There had been a lake by the manor house in Idris.†   (source)
  • Fairies, magic, and now a hostage loose in the manor.†   (source)
  • We're in the cellar of Malfoy Manor, help us!†   (source)
  • The manor house itself was dark, but — ah, good!†   (source)
  • Once a year we spent two span at his manor, entertaining him and his household.†   (source)
  • Well, Art and I looked at a place, Mira Mar Manor, it's assisted living, really nice.†   (source)
  • Foaly had even marked Fowl Manor with a red dot.†   (source)
  • Mira Mar Manor was flanked by windswept cypress trees and looked out on the ocean.†   (source)
  • Establish a perimeter inside the Manor grounds.†   (source)
  • To Ruth's surprise, her mother seemed to have no objection to staying at Mira Mar Manor.†   (source)
  • It was early morning before they reached Fowl Manor.†   (source)
  • He skirted the warren, following the manor foundations around in a long north-westerly loop.†   (source)
  • They're going to bio-bomb Fowl Manor the second Captain Short is clear.'†   (source)
  • Captain Short was still trapped in the manor.†   (source)
  • But the frame was the original porous stone used to build the manor.†   (source)
  • When the dust settled, the troll would have only one place to go into the manor.†   (source)
  • Fowl Manor is only about twenty klicks from our current location.†   (source)
  • I give it five minutes tops before Fowl Manor rejoins the world at large.†   (source)
  • Somehow the swath of uncultivated land behind the Alderman Manor seemed even more dangerous.†   (source)
  • This was …. the basement for a manor house, built in later Greek times.†   (source)
  • Stepping forward, Brigman pointed at the manors to the north and west.†   (source)
  • Link liked Lena, but there was no way he was driving up to Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • He tipped his head back, as if he could read his future in the curl of the manor's eaves.†   (source)
  • So it's— It's at the Wayland family manor.†   (source)
  • Mum Olga wanted it to take place in our manor, but Father said the castle would be more romantic.†   (source)
  • Back at the manor we had an old icebox powered by witchlight.†   (source)
  • Its windows were bright yellow squares set against the manor's black silhouette.†   (source)
  • If the angel dies, the manor— She didn't finish her sentence.†   (source)
  • I didn't know why I was sitting here, soaking wet, in front of Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • The horse headed down the path toward the manor house at a trot.†   (source)
  • On my first day in Mum Olga's manor, I'd seen the laundress blacken the eye of a housemaid.†   (source)
  • Ravenwood Manor was still that impressive, at least in scale.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, I slipped out of the manor to the greenhouse near the menagerie.†   (source)
  • A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding.†   (source)
  • Valentine brought Jace up in the Wayland manor, and Jonathan in the house near the lake.†   (source)
  • I was wrong about Ravenwood Manor, and Macon Raven-wood.†   (source)
  • Because I don't remember seeing you around the manor.†   (source)
  • I shouted as soon as I reached the manor.†   (source)
  • "But Valentine lived in the Wayland manor for years after that," Clary protested.†   (source)
  • Just as I was starting to wonder, we pulled up at Raven-wood Manor, and she flipped off the radio.†   (source)
  • A seven-foot-high pumpkin rolled toward us and came to rest in the street outside the manor.†   (source)
  • Would you show us the rest of the manor?†   (source)
  • He hasn't left Ravenwood Manor in years, as far as I know."†   (source)
  • Do you think there's any chance it's in the Wayland manor?†   (source)
  • It had taken him and Clary six hours to walk from the Wayland manor to Alicante.†   (source)
  • ^ ^Ravenwood Manor loomed in front of me.†   (source)
  • When he left, he glanced back for a final view of our manor.†   (source)
  • It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor.†   (source)
  • There was our manor, bearing the legend, "Sir Peter of Frell."†   (source)
  • For some reason the memory of kissing him in the grass at the Wayland manor rose up in her mind.†   (source)
  • I shall have to sell our manor, our furniture, the carriage.†   (source)
  • He had a small manor in Frell, a wife, four daughters, and two hounds.†   (source)
  • "Say I can convince Jace to come to the manor with me and get the book," she said.†   (source)
  • "Magnus was right—there are misdirection wards on the manor," he said slowly.†   (source)
  • Clary thought of Sebastian standing across from her in the grass near the ruins of Fairchild manor.†   (source)
  • The anger that had been in his eyes since they'd left the manor had evaporated.†   (source)
  • Clary, there are misdirection wards on the manor.†   (source)
  • Jace—if you take me to the manor, and we get the book, I'll go home with Simon.†   (source)
  • Maybe if I had time to work on them, I could crack them, but— Then no one can get into the manor?†   (source)
  • I can think of at least one person who could almost certainly get into the manor.†   (source)
  • Late on the second day I had chanced on Star in the steam room of the manor's baths.†   (source)
  • I barely twigged as to which was the lady of the manor, Jocko's wife—his senior wife.†   (source)
  • As we turned into the grounds of the manor we picked up a wake of children and dogs.†   (source)
  • Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn.†   (source)
  • A handsome manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive, lights glinting in the diamond paned downstairs windows.†   (source)
  • Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.†   (source)
  • I dreamed that I'd own a house in Manchester Manor, a relatively new development not a mile from the high school, where a nice home went for less than a fifth of the price of a decent house in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Instead of owning a manor house and servants, Daddy lived in a trailer park on the outskirts of a town that was itself the outskirts of town.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that's why we live here instead of in the Estates at East Hampton, or the Manors of Coventry, or the Villas at Versailles.†   (source)
  • But in his mind, he saw green hills and blue water and the honey-colored stones of the Wayland manor house.†   (source)
  • You see, within a few months of their runaway marriage, Tom Riddle reappeared at the manor house in Little Hangleton without his wife.†   (source)
  • He had debated whether he should bring the few things he'd saved from the manor house in Idris with him when he left tonight.†   (source)
  • In the manor houses of the Cealdim and in the workshops of the Cealdar, over the Stormwal in the great sand sea.†   (source)
  • With a lot of water in the cellar and the mistress of the manor gone, he had heard them in the walls.†   (source)
  • Chapter Twenty-Three Malfoy Manor Harry looked around at the other two, now mere outlines in the darkness.†   (source)
  • This by itself would not have put him in a state of near-terror — but he remembered coming to Calthorpe Manor the day after Misery's death.†   (source)
  • He was sitting on a stack of empty, flattened boxes, wearing a neat gray suit and tie, as if he were seated behind the elegant mahogany desk at the Wayland manor house in Idris.†   (source)
  • "Well," Travers coughed, "I heard that the Inhabitants of Malfoy Manor were confined to the house, after the… ah… escape."†   (source)
  • Eventually we emerged from the forest, and the road became a path leading up a vast lawn to a huge manor house.†   (source)
  • For the past month, LuLing had been living at Mira Mar Manor, and Mr. Tang went several times a week to visit.†   (source)
  • As he did so, he gazed down at the tiny body, and his scar prickled and burned, and in one part of his mind, viewed as if from the wrong end of a long telescope, he saw Voldemort punishing those they had left behind at the Malfoy Manor.†   (source)
  • He began what sounded like an oft recited spiel: "Here at Mira Mar Manor, we believe home is more than a bed.†   (source)
  • Chapter Twenty-Six Gringotts Their plans were made, their preparations complete; in the smallest bedroom a single long, coarse black hair (plucked from the sweater Hermione had been wearing at Malfoy Manor) lay curled in a small glass phial on the mantelpiece.†   (source)
  • Ruth left her mother at Auntie Gal's and spent the next day at her house sorting out what should be moved to Mira Mar Manor.†   (source)
  • LuLing was at her sister's for the weekend, and it was Art's idea that they visit Mira Mar Manor without her, so that they could anticipate what objections she might raise.†   (source)
  • The remains of Retrieval One were about as eager to insert themselves into the manor as they would be to juggle Atlantean stink balloons.†   (source)
  • With any luck, the centaur hadn't run a seismology test on the manor grounds, or his ruse might be discovered.†   (source)
  • So he instructed his aide to transfer the file to his portable phone and from there e-mail it to Fowl Manor in Dublin.†   (source)
  • The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest and several tax audits.†   (source)
  • And even though there weren't supposed to be any hostiles in the manor, she found her gun hand automatically straying to the Neutrino 2000.†   (source)
  • A blue orb of condensed light crackled and spread, filling every corner of the manor with its deadly rays.†   (source)
  • The cage was directly before the manor door, and the techies were securing a concussor seal to the surrounding wall.†   (source)
  • There weren't many things more fun to armed Recon officer going to town on a bunch of By the time Captain Short got through with this be begging her to get out of his manor.†   (source)
  • The manor was a cradle of death.†   (source)
  • It was quite possible that Artemis would have sat like that for some time, totally detached from the situation at hand, had not the front door imploded, shaking the manor to its foundations.†   (source)
  • This effectively meant that Foaly could tune the biobomb to blue-rinse only Fowl Manor and not one blade of grass more, plus the building would be radiation-free in under a minute.†   (source)
  • He knew immediately what the LEP were up to — send in the troll to secure a cry for help, interpret it as an invitation, and next thing you know a brigade of goblin stormtroopers were taking the manor.†   (source)
  • Outside the walls, life continued at an exaggerated pace, but if anyone were to somehow gain access to the manor in spite of the fortified walls and high gate, they would find it deserted, all occupants trapped in the past.†   (source)
  • Do you see that manor?†   (source)
  • Fowl Manor.†   (source)
  • What manor?†   (source)
  • He looked taken aback, and she remembered how surprised he'd been outside the Manor, when she'd pushed him away.†   (source)
  • The central building was built of golden stone, a Romanesque manor house surrounded by arched porticoes.†   (source)
  • At the same time, he put his hunting dogs into the woods behind the manor, in search of this girl's scent-a piece of underclothing was delivered from the dorms.†   (source)
  • "A manor house?" he asked.†   (source)
  • He headed south along Leeds Manor Road, past fenced pastures and barns, until he came to a town called Hume.†   (source)
  • There were the customary bows, after which they proceeded up a path to a large stone manor house, walking between the Hessian guards who looked, Adams remembered, "fierce as ten furies," as they presented arms, "making all the grimaces and gestures and motions of their muskets with bayonets fixed, which I suppose etiquette requires but which we neither understood nor regarded."†   (source)
  • My understanding is that he tied its life to the Wayland manor, so that when the angel died the manor collapsed to rubble.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • For a moment she was back in Idris, standing in front of the burned Fairchild manor, and Sebastian was kissing her, and she felt as if she were falling into darkness, into a tunnel that had no end.†   (source)
  • It's also a handy way of moving other goods, like timber and wine, from the manor houses to the city.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It had been hers after the divorce, after Stephen had moved out to the countryside manor house with his new wife.†   (source)
  • She thought for a moment that he lingered before unwrapping it fully, his fingers brushing her throat— She remembered him kissing her on the hill by the burned remains of the Fairchild manor, and how she had felt as if she were falling, into a dark and abandoned place, lost and terrified.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • At her feet a stone walkway stretched to the front door of a large manor house, built of mellow golden stone.†   (source)
  • "Herondale manor," Jace finished.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he would slow the horse to point out the manor houses of the richer Shadowhunter families, hidden from the road when the trees were full but revealed now.†   (source)
  • Our torches were nearly out, and I had to hold mine up so that I could read Rayvenwoode Manor carved into the vertical planks.†   (source)
  • "Blackthorn manor," he said.†   (source)
  • There was always the screaming, from the moment I'd woken up, until the moment I pressed the crescent and let myself into Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • This is Fairchild manor.†   (source)
  • I could imagine her stretched out on her bed reading a poem, although I had trouble imagining that bed in Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • The great house, Ravenwood Manor, looked just like the stereotypical Southern plantation that people from up North would expect to see after all those years of watching movies like Gone with the Wind.†   (source)
  • When I gave up yesterday, I looked back for a fast glimpse of her manor, since I couldn't have a fast glimpse of her.†   (source)
  • When we reached our manor, Father stayed outside to speak with the coachman while I hurried inside to find Mandy.†   (source)
  • In front of me, on the rising hill, barely visible through the blanket of fog, stood the dilapidated remains of Gatlin's oldest and most notorious plantation house, Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • I was rarely invited to Mum Olga's residence, and Father kept her away from our manor, which was day by day being emptied to satisfy his debt.†   (source)
  • It was also Lena who invited Anima, knowing full well nothing short of divine intervention could get Amma to set foot through the door of Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • There was the south road out of Frell, the road we were on now, far beyond the map's boundaries, far beyond the manor of Sir Peter of Frell.†   (source)
  • I kept running, down the gravel path, away from Ravenwood Manor, away from the frightening house pet and the strange symbols and the creepy door, and back into the safe, dim light of the real afternoon.†   (source)
  • Do you want to know about our manor?†   (source)
  • He wrote more about Ayortha than I ever wished to know: how the guilds were structured; the number of gallons of milk produced in a year by one Ayorthaian cow; the construction of their manors.†   (source)
  • When face and I went to the Wayland manor—when we went to find the Book of the White— She broke off as the kitchen door swung open.†   (source)
  • The misdirection wards that had hidden the manor had been destroyed along with the manor's foundation.†   (source)
  • He says I told him I could hear screams through the walls of the manor, that I suspected something, dreaded something.†   (source)
  • These were manor houses, Sebastian explained (by shouting in her ear): the country houses of wealthy Shadow-hunter families.†   (source)
  • Stephen was kind, I suppose—he gave me this house and moved back into the Herondale manor with his parents and Celine.†   (source)
  • So have you gone to the Wayland manor?†   (source)
  • "In the Wayland manor," Sebastian said.†   (source)
  • Clary stared at them, decoding their meaning, and then looked wildly at Jace: "The manor—it was tied to Ithuriel.†   (source)
  • A second later Jace came to a stop next to her; unlike her, he rolled immediately into a crouch, staring up the hill at the manor house.†   (source)
  • She could see the roof of what was probably another nearby manor house in the distance, just above the tree line.†   (source)
  • Everything that had just happened—the angel, the shattering manor—seemed less real than what she saw in Jace's eyes.†   (source)
  • The Waylands lived in the manor just a mile or two from ours, and there were others close by—the Lightwoods, the Penhallows.†   (source)
  • After that, because Valentine was pretending to be Michael Wayland, he moved the child to the Wayland manor and raised him as Michael Wayland's son.†   (source)
  • They were not unlike the runes that had kept Ithuriel imprisoned in the cellars beneath the Wayland manor.†   (source)
  • All Clary wanted was to run to him and put her arms around him, but the look on Simon's face told her no, no, and so did her memory of the manor house and Jace's arms around her there.†   (source)
  • Jace pressed her harder into the ground, his body flat against hers, his heartbeat nearly as loud in her ears as the sound of the manor's subsiding ruins.†   (source)
  • We went to live in my parents' manor house, where I grew up; Valentine didn't want to be in the city, and he wanted the rest of the Circle to avoid Alicante and the prying eyes of the Clave as well.†   (source)
  • He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole.†   (source)
  • But I had grown up in the manor.†   (source)
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