The first census of 1564 reported a grand manor in that village, built long ago in the times of Dukes of Masovia.

Many were eventually able to buy the land they had been farming, and over time grand manors came to replace the more humble farmhouses earlier generations of yeomen had occupied.

For all its resonance, this title suggests no grand manor, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but some rough shelter constructed on the edge of a pasture.

In the grounds of a grand, 300-year-old manor, these modern apartments are sheer minimalist chic.

The Mountain Man rode toward the grand manor, where an ailing woman waited for him.

If perchance they was placed in the nursery of a grand manor, there's none would know the difference and they would carry their proxy nobility as well as any Lord or Lady.

The only remains of this once grand manor are stables and a 14th century Peel Tower, formerly part of a large house of later date which was demolished in 1979 following a fire.

A grand manor occupied the whole corner.

In 1877 Hoyt Sherman built a grand manor; the structure is now a museum and performing arts center.

Plans for a 78-room grand manor designed by the architect Horace Trumbauer didn't make it off the drawing board.