manor
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DePree, an actor and filmmaker, argued a 2017 agreement with Rochdale Council gave him the option to buy the manor house after securing planning permission to restore and redevelop it.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Within days, Alison is invited to a colloquium of scholars in an English manor that has historic connections to Barton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
We’re in the middle of nowhere in the north of England in an old manor house where her wedding was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
There was no sign of the Devil on the manor road or in the woods on either side.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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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
But Moorish-style manors, with horseshoe arches and keyhole windows, often sit beside boxy, white, Bauhaus-inspired villas on the coastal escarpment, so the discomfort is probably worth it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
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
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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