lady of the manor
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
These maidens, who were intrusted to the care of the lady of the manor, had to be trained in all domestic accomplishments as well as in polite attainments.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
