What is "manses"

Usage examples of "manses".

It was sundown and the Wamphyri were awake in their manses and abroad on their flyers.

She couldn't risk it, not with the high beacons flaring red and orange, and lights burning in all the manses, and flyers overhead where aerial patrols came and went through the pass.

And it should be remembered: for every one of us born to the spires and manses, there is one who was born on Sunside or in the swamps.

But since Zindevar was known to operate a spy network second to none among Turgosheim's spires and manses, this hardly came as any great surprise.

Even the smaller manses, the lowliest spires, were occupied, and Wamphyri blazons fluttered from the merest mounds.

And sensitive dreamers felt its rolling thunder deep in the floors of their manses, which brought them starting awake.

I make no discrimination here: we are what we are, and no one's needs are less than any other's, except in the requirements of their spires and manses, which differ according to size.

Of other types: a few lesser creatures are kept in the spires and manses, and there are those which roam in Turgosheim's bottoms, guarding against intruders.

Ah, but the manses will always require provisioning, and even offensive meat is still meat!

Well, I have to admit that in certain spires and manses you would not be disappointed - but this is Runemanse.

I would know the various spires and manses from their shapes alone, or from their fires, whose colours are distinct.

In one of this workshops he keeps an amazing model of the gorge, where all of its spires and manses are represented.

When Wratha and her traitors fled from Turgosheim, their spires and manses were sacked and offered to others.

Vast and lumbering, the creature flew out from Vormspire with the rumble of its propulsors echoing over Turgosheim, its armour glinting ruddily in the lights of the manses, and its exhaust vapours shaped by the winds into a fantastic, billowing slipstream.

Thralls mend the water and gas pipes between the manses, and carry out work on the high faces replenishing water-catchment skins, sigils, pennants.