Estates

Farmers made a lucky strike on estates.

The Marquise de Brinvilliers was accused of having conspired with her lover, the Chevalier de Sainte Croix, to poison her father and her two brothers in order to inherit their estates.

Steam rises from cracks in the road shortly before a fissure opened up on Kaupili Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, May 4, 2018, in Pahoa, Hawaii, in this image released by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Mennad's estates were confiscated.

He owns vast estates in Algeria.

“Well, my Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just endowments, family estates of the Bonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that we will have war, if you still try to soften all the infamies, all the horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist — I really believe he is Antichrist — I will have nothing more to do with you, and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you; sit down and tell me all the news.”

In other words, although neither had seen the other, there was a feud between the owners of the two estates that had all the earmarks of an ancient romance.

It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.