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  • On the manor's transformation into a chaotic convalescent hospital: "It's like living in a second-rate hotel where the guests keep arriving and no one seems to leave."

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2012

  • But there the lord of the manor's official involvement ends: Given that he has family ties to Wickham, and that the fatal event occurred on his property, he must turn the investigation over to others.

    Mr. & Mrs. Darcy To the Rescue Tom Nolan 2011

  • Set at a glorious country estate beset by inheritance intrigues after the Titanic sinks with male heirs aboard — "It's worse than a shame, it's a complication" — Abbey weaves its stories between the embattled family and the manor's colorful staff.

    Roush Review: A Super Busy TV Sunday 2011

  • Westwood also believes it will take "balls" to play the 18th hole at Celtic manor's Twenty Ten course.

    Ryder Cup 2010: I'm not 100% fit after injury, says Lee Westwood Jamie Jackson Celtic Manor 2010

  • This is also reflected in the costumes (note Larita's tony evening gowns against the worn velvets and satins of her sister-in-laws) and in the sets (compare the frayed edges of the manor's period furniture with Larita's impeccably polished motor car), which make for a completely consistent and symbolically meaningful visual style.

    Penelope Andrew: Film Review of Easy Virtue: Much of Noel Coward's Charm Survives Intact 2009

  • Once, when everyone was at the annual summer fayre on the estate, my sisters peeping through some bushes as cowardly witnesses, I sneaked in through the manor's heavy wooden door into the cavernous Grand Hall.

    'Blonde Roots' 2009

  • Armed with your trusty Field Guide to World History, you must recover the book's parts, which are scattered throughout the manor's 20 labyrinthine levels.

    Chill Out 2008

  • Looking back, I'm reminded of a Victorian-era butler, awoken by the lord of the manor's young scion, deferentially performing whatever unreasonable duties have been laid upon him.

    Alt Text: A Geek Yearns for Yesteryear's Noisy Gear 2008

  • After his mother dies, the boy known only as "Asta's son" is declared a "wolf's head" by his manor's evil steward which means that anyone who sees him can kill him and collect a reward for a crime he didn't commit.

    Review: Crispin: the cross of lead tinylittlelibrarian 2007

  • After his mother dies, the boy known only as "Asta's son" is declared a "wolf's head" by his manor's evil steward which means that anyone who sees him can kill him and collect a reward for a crime he didn't commit.

    Archive 2007-07-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007

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