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lady of the manor



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One of Powell’s most striking decisions is to pay so much attention to Venetia Richmond, who in a different writer’s hands might have become a distant, one-note lady of the manor.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to agitating others.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a magnificent effort of his whole soul-it is the finest scene in the film-he converts the lady of the manor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lady of the manor, in the old feudal days, made warm mittens and woolen mufflers with her own white hands and carried them to the cottages at Christmas, along with blankets and coals.

From In Times Like These by McClung, Nellie L.




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