Manor example sentences

To go up to the manor house would be like throwing himself voluntarily into the lion's den.But while he was riding up to the manor house he had evil forebodings.The day the news arrived, the landowner's manor house was looted, his stock farms were “requisitioned” and his vast orchard was cut down and sold to the peasants for wood; all his far buildings were torn down and left in ruins while the land was distributed among the peasants who were prepared to live the new Soviet life.In the Dutch Republic, in Switzerland, in Italy and Germany, Napoleon simplified administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues.'' To go along up to the manor house and be received by the owner like an old regimental comrade — that, however, did not please the tramp.