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  • "The Old Manse" (in _Mosses from an Old Manse_) is an excellent introduction to this group.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • So we came nice and quiet to this domy called the Manse, and there were globe lights outside on iron stalks, like guarding the front door on each side, and there was a light like dim on in one of the rooms on the ground level, and we went to a nice patch of street dark to watch through the window what was ittying on.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • The Manse was a broad-bosomed, wide-armed house, opposite the church, looking as if it wanted to embrace every one who approached its big doorway.

    The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • The Manse is a large, square wooden house, to the surface of which -- even in the dry New England air, so unfriendly to mosses and lichens and weather-stains, and the other elements of a picturesque complexion -- a hundred and fifty years of exposure have imparted a kind of tone, standing just above the slow-flowing Concord river, and approached by a short avenue of over-arching trees.

    Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

  • He was married in July 1842, and betook himself immediately to the ancient village of Concord, near Boston, where he occupied the so-called Manse which has given the title to one of his collections of tales, and upon which this work, in turn, has conferred a permanent distinction.

    Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

  • The route was essentially a long uphill climb, except for the Col de Manse, which is where Contador made his move.

    NYT > Home Page By GREG BISHOP 2011

  • 'After they were all in bed,' she writes from the "Manse," in Concord,

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

  • A key part of Historic Augusta's mission is preserving the "Manse" (an old Presbyterian term for a pastor's house) where little Tommy Wilson lived from the ages of 1 to 13.

    Local News from Wilmington Star News 2010

  • A key part of Historic Augusta's mission is preserving the "Manse" (an old Presbyterian term for a pastor's house) where little Tommy Wilson lived from the ages of 1 to 13.

    Local News from Wilmington Star News 2010

  • A key part of Historic Augusta's mission is preserving the "Manse" (an old Presbyterian term for a pastor's house) where little Tommy Wilson lived from the ages of 1 to 13.

    Local News from Wilmington Star News 2010

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