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How to use manor in a sentence

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In The Wolf Man, Rains is the perfect lord of the manor with his patrician bearing and smooth manner with the town's officials.
An American government advisor kept abandoned deer, squirrels and even a bear as pets on the grounds of his manor.
A small manor estate might contain a dozen families while larger estates might include fifty or sixty.
The notorious exaggerator, in fact, put down just about everyone who was not German blue blood or to the manor born.
It quickly becomes apparent that the monster is the son of the local lord of the manor, placed under enchantment by his stepmother.
Rabbits who have taken up residence on the remains of a 14th century manor house in England are digging up fragments of a medieval glass window.
Then, too, he makes allowances for customs that differed from one manor to the next.
On the manor the peasants worked the lord's demesne in return for protection, housing, and the use of plots of land to cultivate their own crops.
The gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
In 1123 Henry I granted the manor to the bishop of Lincoln for the endowment of a prebend.
The manor house stood above and to the left of the ring road on a tree-lined ridge at the top of a steeply sloping hillside.
He pouted playfully and walked out the back door towards the back lawn of the manor.
He had two hunting hounds that were to be part of the cry of hounds that the lord of the manor then kept.
Later it was owned perhaps by the lord of the manor, but no individual ownership, much less freehold, existed.
I know the manor, but not well enough to know the workings of my fool brother's mind.
Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.
It's also possible to go round the old manor house, to poke your nose into all the barns and have a look at the old farm equipment.
If the grand old manor house is anything to go by we are in for a pleasant surprise.
He asked my opinion and considered it in decisions about the manor where we once had lived.
Those who wished to leave the manor had to seek permission or be penalized by a fine.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are lords of the manor of Tweedmouth, where they hold a court-leet and court-baron twice a year.
The advowson descended with the manor, and was often subdivided among the heirs.
Was this right appurtenant to the manor, or was it also appendant to a frank tenement in a particular vill?
The conspirators did not meet at the inn itself, but in the castellated manor house just across the byroad.
Then we are told how lands geld at or in some manor or at the caput manerii.
A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey.
Every passer-by might note the limit and circumscription dividing the new place from the ancient seat of the lords of the manor.
Deer and grouse were very abundant on the barrens in the manor of the Red Rose.
His manor was so fair and so delightsome that all the world did not contain its peer.
The wardship of this fief and manor, during the minority of the seigneur, was in the Crown.
The mark or township, transformed by the process of feudalization, becomes the manor.
One contrasts the soke of the manor with the inland and with the berewicks.
Sir William came to the manor on the next day, and then peers and courtiers of all ilks flocked thither to worship the rising sun.
The custom of the manor of Inglewood is to the same effect, the eldest daughter, sister, or other female descendant inheriting.
Next beyond this manor of Ely house is lither lane, turning into the field.
Hardly would the thing have made a wing of the manor house at Chaynes-Wotten.
On this occasion we met, for the first time, the lady of the manor herself.
The corresponding fines for girls were merchet if they married off the manor and leyrwite if they dispensed with that ceremony.
The resident lord of a manor was often the mesne tenant of one of these greater lords.
Manchester had no municipal corporation and was still under the jurisdiction of a manor court.
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