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It is the old Manor-House of these parts, and stood in the country once.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The ancient Manor of BRAND's, alias BRAUND's, near Kilburn in _Middlesex_, was the very Manor-House of Sir JOHN BRAND, and is call'd BRAND's to this Day, altho 'at present it be in the Possession of the
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The Manor-House continued to be the occasional residence of the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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Halton family who resided at the Manor-House became its spoiler; for, desiring to build himself a house at the foot of the high hill upon which the mansion stands, he pulled down and unroofed part of the fine old structure -- so that the hall, with its proud emblazonry of the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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The Manor-House originally consisted of two square courts, one of which, to the north, has been built on all sides, and the south side of it forms the north side of the south court, which has also ranges of buildings on the east and west sides, and on part of the south.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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Her gracious invitation to play upon the Manor-House course Mr. Wilson mentioned feelingly.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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At the fifteenth-century Manor-House at South Wraxall, Wiltshire, the
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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Who died at his Manor-House of Weston in the Parish of
English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871
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She remembered vividly Pierre Philibert, the friend and fellow-student of her brother: he spent so many of his holidays at the old Manor-House of Tilly, when she, a still younger girl, shared their sports, wove chaplets of flowers for them, or on her shaggy pony rode with them on many a scamper through the wild woods of the Seigniory.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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= Old Manor-House = (_The_), a novel by Charlotte Smith.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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