manor
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Only two years after being in the Championship and in their first ever Grand Final, Wakefield took to the Old Trafford stage as if they were to the manor born.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Her work included enlarging and remodelling the medieval manor at Hardwick, now known as Hardwick Old Hall.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
His father Gyozo Orban, who is 85, owns several building material companies as well as the historic Hatvanpuszta estate he had rebuilt into a luxurious manor worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
A classic manor house mystery, which revived the genre when it became a hit in 2019, “Knives Out” is the ideal blend of mystery and wit, with a cast of characters to keep you company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
A seven-foot-high pumpkin rolled toward us and came to rest in the street outside the manor.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Think of the manors in “Clue,” or “Murder By Death.”
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
Ersatz Georgian manors sit next to re-created country cottages next to mock Industrial Age warehouses, now filled with low-rise luxury flats — and a nursing home.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
Those who would enjoy drinking age-worthy wines are much more likely to live in fourth-floor walk-up apartments in Brooklyn or Tokyo than they are to occupy stately manors.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020
Alongside alluring beaches, the remnants of those manors stand today, many of them in various stages of crumbling.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018
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.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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