Manor house example sentences

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.But while he was riding up to the manor house he had evil forebodings.To go up to the manor house would be like throwing himself voluntarily into the lion's den.'' 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.