(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(3) The manor house in The Private Patient has been sold by its ancestral owners to cover their debts and bought by self-made plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
(4) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(5) Sue Manor, 66, of Hendersonville, spoke of her "agonising" wait for the all-clear.
(6) Campaigning in Averham and Bingham, Helmer criticised the personal wealth of Jenrick, who has a Herefordshire manor, and two properties in London as well as a rented place near Newark.
(7) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(8) Photograph: Adam Gerrard Dr David Drew A former clinical director of Walsall Manor hospital, Dr David Drew was dismissed in December 2010 after voicing concerns about what he said was a huge cost-cutting exercise.
(9) The location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.
(10) This article presents a brief account of the University of Evansville's use of Harlaxton Manor, located in England.
(11) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(12) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(13) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(14) …………………………………………………… We were Bronzeville girls until I was three and Denise six; then we moved to Park Manor.
(15) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
(16) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(17) HS2 will pass close to the modest housing estates of west Aylesbury and at a more respectful distance from Waddesdon Manor, a French chateau built on a wooded hill by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874.
(18) Woolhope Woodheat plans to install its first boiler at Canon Frome Court , a community of about 50 people living in a Georgian manor and 40-acre organic farm in Herefordshire.
(19) Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks.
(20) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
Manse
Definition:
(n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.
(n.) The parsonage; a clergyman's house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if the prospect of David Cameron fighting the corner of once-loyal working-class Labour voters sounds absurd, that's what will surely define tomorrow night's debate: egged on by tomorrow morning's headlines (and get ready for a real peach from the Sun), the moneyed Old Etonian carpeting the son of the manse for his failure to understand the concerns of ordinary folk.
(2) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
(3) Like many a child of the manse he reacted against the puritanism of his childhood without abandoning its high-mindedness or sense of moral certainty.
(4) The manse – which still exhales an air of four-square Victorian respectability – occupies the high ground above the green spaces of Kelvingrove Park, in which, before the first world war, its son John Reith would walk, feeling the winds of destiny brushing his cheek as they blew down from the Campsie Fells – or so he said.
(5) Many years later, after I had got to know him as a constituent in the old manse of Makerstoun in the Borders, he told me that he had at various times been half-promised a peerage by both my predecessors as Liberal leader, Grimond and Jeremy Thorpe.
(6) (Emerson may have turned out to be an unforgiving landlord, but he had after all written the greatest of his essays, "Nature", in the attic-study of the manse.)
(7) A childhood in the rough hills of southern Scotland didn't help: there were manses, not vicarages, in the Borders, and a more outspoken democratic spirit against the feudal set-up that prevailed there.
(8) Last June, though, the basketball-playing "skinny kid" from Hawaii and the son of the manse got on surprisingly well.
(9) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(10) Tennant was born David John McDonald and grew up with his brother and sister in a manse in Paisley, Scotland.
(11) The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse.
(12) Sophia and Nathaniel moved to Concord, west of Boston, where they rented, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's family, the Old Manse, close by the river and the Old North Bridge where a bloody skirmish had taken place between British troops and local militia on April 19 1775, the revolution's baptism of fire.
(13) And, given that the virtues of the manse are not dissimilar to the virtues of the mosque, the gurdwara or the Women's Institute, it's a multicultural, shared, open polity.
(14) Doubles £80 (make your own breakfast) Plockton Gallery and Guesthouse, Plockton Plockton Gallery Checking into the Red Room or Blue Room of this lovely old manse in pretty little Plockton could end up costing you a fortune.
(15) Its Ludwig-like atmosphere is enhanced by the gilded steam barge by which one sails across to Ruskin’s retreat, ascending the banks to the manse.
(16) Alasdair Gray, writer "Self-rule for Scotland would make us grow up" David Greig, playwright "The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse."
(17) The manse on Lynedoch Street, Glasgow, is a handsome double-fronted house with nine steps up to its front door.
(18) Few of Gordon Brown's friends and admirers would have predicted during his dominant decade as chancellor that his life's journey from the Presbyterian manse in Kirkcaldy to No 10 would end in such a painful exit.