The Patrons of Husbandry

Usage examples of grange.

Leaning on the crumbling stone wall of a temple orchard, looking past the sloping tile roofs of Grange Head, Maia lifted her gaze to watch low clouds briefly occult a brightly speckled, placid sea, its green shoals aflicker with silver schools of fish and the flapping shadows of hovering swoop-birds.

After that, the family took a light breakfast in the parlour, during which John repeated his suggestion that Mary visit Canons Grange with him.

Just before the path reached Cob End, another track turned off and ran along the top of the finger, and then dropped down the slope with it, through a paddock, and into the stableyard of Canons Grange.

Unlike Pinnacles, Canons grange had not been built all of a piece, but had grown over a period of centuries by a process of accretion.

Its core was a stone-built hall-house which had been erected for the Austin Canons of Woodham Abbey to house the bailey of their grange.

Mary had no doubt that this was the present owner of Canons Grange, for he still bore a strong resemblance to the reserved, intense boy.

Matthew caught the arrow in mid-flight, through the palm of his left hand, and the King gave him Canons Grange and the estate as a reward, at a peppercorn rent of one arrow every seventh year!

Later that day, a message was sent to Canons Grange inviting the Hartwells to dine and spend the next afternoon at Pinnacles, so that the men might discuss the problem of the refugees in the Forest.

Mary made a polite but noncommittal response, and turned to watch the arrival, not of the expected Wharton wagon, but of a particularly well-built haycart from Canons Grange, lined with bales of straw and drawn by a pair of great horses which arched their necks, raised and lowered their great feathered feet and flourished their ribboned tails with all the pride of their warhorse ancestry.

Slowly, reluctantly, the visitors rode away, looking back over their shoulders as they went, and the beleaguered garrison of Canons Grange watched them out of sight.

As in most homes, the day at Canons Grange began with the household assembling for prayers and a Bible reading.

It was customary at Canons Grange for the footmen to bring in and serve each course, and then withdraw from the room until Mr Hartwell rang a small handbell to summon them to take out the remains and bring in the next course.

The Needlewood Granges lie at the western foot of the mountain, near Loon Lake.

The Needlewood Granges were a minor holding in decline: They would suit his purposes well.

He was heir to the ailing Baron Onslow, who lived at Nuttall Grange a mere five or six miles away.