How To Use Squire In A Sentence

The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
The great house they built may just be ridges in the field to the south-west of the church, but you feel you have met them, Sir Arthur Throckmorton, an Elizabethan squire, and his wife.
No doubt trying for an audience with Gabriel Androctusa chance to grovel and bootlick his way into squirehood. Virginity

Several of Woolrich's hunting garments are made of Squires Hightech's Saddle-Cloth, a soft, quiet, stormproof and windproof fabric.
Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
Thou too, O Pylades, trusty squire, whose training shows thy father's sterling worth, receive a garland from my hand, for thou no less than he hast a share in this emprise; and so I pray, good luck be thine for ever! Electra
In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity. A Miscellany of Men
Mark Fairfield, an outvoter, who, though a Lansmere freeman, had settled in Hazeldean, where he had obtained the situation of head carpenter on the squire's estate. My Novel — Volume 01
Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
Sir Evelyn's squire bowed, holding out the reins to the horse.
I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway? The Sky Writer
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
Deference to the squire and the parson was often a façade, masking constant challenges to authority by poaching and more explicit threats of rick-burning.
The peak that bears 93 1/2 degrees I have called the Grierson after R. Grierson, Esquire, of Great Bourke Street West, Melbourne. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
This is stolen from his cottage by the squire's reprobate son Dunstan Cass, who disappears.
A "missed call" was logged on the display unit beside the number of the caller, and Gemma Squires, reining in Monkey Business beside Bouncer as the hunt was abandoned, was about to show Julian that his landline was showing on her handset with the call timed at just ten minutes previously. Fox Evil
The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.
The shield ([Greek: aspis]), we are told by followers of Reichel, was only worn by princes who could afford to keep chariots, charioteers, and squires of the body to arm and disarm them. Homer and His Age
A middle-aged lady appeared, clad in tweeds, more like a squiress than a Valleys housewife. GOODBYE CURATE
The faces of all the scholars were turned silently and deferently to their books when the 'Squire banged with his whip-handle on the door. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk
Squire's Choice - sliced roast beef rolled up with a filling of pickled red cabbage and horseradish sauce. 3.
The King sent for one of his own chaplains that made the squire confess and do his houselling right well. The High History of the Holy Graal
So a while they sat talking, all of them, and the squire and the sergeant aforesaid were not a little timorous of the adventure of making that stead unkenned their sleeping chamber; and to while away the time, their lords made them tell tales such as they knew concerning that place; and both they said that they had never erst come into the dale but a very little way, and said that they had done so then but trusting in their lords 'bidding and the luck of the Quest. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES 'squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
Carlo Mario da Buonaparte, as he called himself, married the fourteen-year-old Letizia, also of distant Italian noble extraction, but from a family that had heavily intermarried with the squireens of the wild interior.
Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg. The Outlaw of Torn
Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.
But the Duchess rushes to her pet's defense and says she will not be parted from the wise squire.
The Devil is unhappily dead, in that international bibliopolic province, and little hope of his reviving for some time; whereupon this is what Squire Appleton does. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Knight and squire crossed paths with a variety of rural characters - goatherds, galley slaves, innkeepers, and others - all of whom had rambling stories to tell.
Twain delighted to have "Squire Hawkins" sit upon "the pyramid of large blocks called the stile, in front of his home, contemplating the morning. Sergeant York And His People
I suppose, Squire Carne, you thought that low of me because I made a fuss about being larruped, the same as a Frenchman I pulled out of the water did about my doing of it, as if I could have helped it. Springhaven
His estate is a little encumbered by debt: he is what was known as a squireen.
_ The spalpeen! turned into a buckeen, that would be a squireen, -- but can't. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
A Grade II-listed former windmill, the Round House was built in 1790 by local squire Earl Bathurst, who later became lord chancellor, and was used as a windmill until the early 1830s.
The rise of chamber knights and squires was a general phenomenon of the fourteenth century, and was not confined to the well-known court of Richard II.
A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy. Doctor Thorne
Give me your figgery-four Squire, I'll go in up to the handle for you. The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01
Every other titled lord from Duke to Squire in the area was at that table. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
An appellate judge who has been in that position since working as a professor is as disconnected from the legal practice as anyone who cannot claim "esquire" as a title. Real diversity on the Supreme Court.
Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr Livesey were talking together on the quarterdeck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly .
His shelves were occupied by the eight different kinds of bread in common use -- wassel, used only by knights and squires; cocket, the kind in ordinary use by smaller folk; maslin, a mixture of wheat, oats, and barley; barley, rye, and brown bread, the fare of tradesmen and monks; oaten, the food of the poorest; and horse bread. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
The duo play a medieval knight and his squire who, after a terrible tragedy, are sent through time to the future. The Sun
Is my Lord Rakewell guilty or not guilty of the wilful murder of Tobias Flynn, esquire ? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
As master and squire continue on, both the horse and donkey whinny and bray - which they both take as good omens.
On April 22, Mr. Manzo of Capstone, the Chrysler adviser, sent a note -- like some of the emails, containing misspellings -- to Matthew Feldman, a member of the Obama auto team, to complain that Fiat "is trying to be squirely" about sharing technology. U.S. Pushed Fiat Deal on Chrysler
We brewed it that autumn, and we called it the young squire's ale. Wives and Daughters
It was this renaissance that gave the death-blow to the squireen type of phoney Irish writing which created that charmingly-inane myth wearing a "caubeen", smoking a "dudheen", long upper-lipped, with shamrocks growing from his ears-the stage Irishman. The Irish Mind
In a penitent mood - and partly to kill time - Burnell decided to apologize to Squire for his impolite behaviour. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
My darling, light of my eyes, colleen asthore, acushla machree!" said the Squire. Light O' the Morning
He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers: for the squire, being charmed with the power of punishing Black The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Kingsley, what Sydney Smith called a "squarson," or compound of squire and parson. Studies in Early Victorian Literature
The country squires were firmly opposed to emancipation.
After the funeral was over, the squire went back to Up-Hill to eat the arvel-meal, [Death-feast.] and to hear the will of his old friend read. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance
Ordinary gentlewomen, daughters not of lords, but of local knights and squires, showed moreover the same sort of awareness of the dignity of their blood and arms as did great ladies like Dervorguilla of Galloway.
Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Against this, Disraeli wanted to make the Tories into a ‘national party’, representing all classes rather than just the bloated squirearchy.
But both the bishop and the senator were thoughtful for them and when they came tardily to the board they found the group close about the old commodore, their own places saved and the judge and the general sustaining the squire's rather peppery assertion to the courteous but vilely inconvincible commodore, that certain new laws of Congress must be upheld with all the national power, Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
Arise and Wept both saw it, and instead of contenting themselves with the local taxpaid teacher, they sent him to an academy that was normally only for the sons of squires and rich men. Alvin Journeyman
The squire, Sir John Boileau, and the vicar, the Reverend Mr Andrew, were both highly literate men who didn't get on - and both kept diaries, largely about each other.
Today, a very nice guy named Daniel Miller came and picked me up and squired me all over Sydney.
'grandfather,' or 'gramp'; but we boys when we are out among other boys, have to say the 'Old Squire, 'or the 'old man,' or else they would be laughing at us for milksops. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine
The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt – end of his harquebuss would no doubt have broken Sancho's head with it had not Roque Guinart called out to him to hold his hand. Don Quixote
The end of the period of squiredom is often celebrated with a feast organized by the family of the squire or by the Tutor Knight himself.
The higgler to whom the hare was sold, being unfortunately taken many months after with a quantity of game upon him, was obliged to make his peace with the squire, by becoming evidence against some poacher. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
By the mid-1520s Wyatt was one of Henry's "Esquires of the Body" – part servant, part playmate, part bodyguard – and a keen participant in the Henrician craze for chivalric games and tourneys, as well as the endless round of amorous banter and titillation which went under the guise of "courtly love". The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
Like one of Henry Fielding's squirearchs, Noel planted his library not in some clattering urban center, but in his serene country seat.
Marcia was such a knockout I wanted to squire her about to show her off, but she would have none of that.
So it could be shown in most cases that esquires holding corrodies did not by any means live constantly in their monasteries. Chaucer's Official Life
Don Quixote, perceiving himself free, and delivered from so many difficulties and brabbles wherewithal as well he as his esquire had been perplexed, held it high time to prosecute his commenced voyage, and bring to an end the great adventure unto which he was called and chosen. The Fourth Book. XIX. In Which Is Finished the Notable Adventure of the Troopers, and the Great Ferocity of Our Knight, Don Quixote, and How He Was Enchanted
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For a while the route was easy to follow; I just looked for the plethora of brown signs directing me to my next destination, The Waterton Countryside Discovery Centre and the Squire's Cafe.
There was a friendly copper on every beat who knew the young scallywags and gave them a clip round the ear, and sent them on their way, if he caught the stealing the Squire's apples.
The Spanish kings, in conformity to the martial spirit of the times when cards were introduced, were all mounted on horseback, as befitted generals and commanders-in-chief; but their next in command (among the cards) was el caballo, the knight-errant on horseback -- for the old Spanish cards had no queens; and the third in order was the soto, or attendant, that is, the esquire, or armour-bearer of the knight -- all which was exactly conformable to those ideas of chivalry which ruled the age. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
Having just ended his squireship, Mieric has decided to seek his fortune and travel - wanting to experience for himself the wonders of his uncle's tales.
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Ser Hugh, for those who may not remember the character, was Lord Jon Arryn's squire whom King Robert knighted upon his lord's death for his leal service. A ton of supporting actors for THRONES.
He habitually wore shabby tweeds and a cloth cap of the kind favoured by Cockney barrow boys, also by country squires.
It is the best bit of space opera I ever wrote, and yet the Queen of England has not offered me a knighthood, or even a squireship. What's the Most Underrated Space Opera Novel?
He suffered, certainly, but it was with the civilized air of a country squire. Kevin Keegan - Black and White
But tell me, husband, what good have you got by your squireship? Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
I told him how anxious you were about his reclusiveness, and to please you I think he would certainly squire you about town, but he would undoubtedly prefer to stay at home and nurse his wound.
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[446] Henry Gunning (1768-1854) was senior esquire bedell of Cambridge. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
Americans would discover billions, if not trillions, of their tax dollars, purportedly designated for the space program, squired away in Swiss banks and slush funds by successive presidents. Jonathan Miller: The Earth Is Flat... but They Can't Handle the Truth
Scott, by contrast, is very much the country squire, down in town from his home in the Borders.
Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich.
Virginian squires; and could we have peeped into the square, solid drawing-room in which, as President, he held his receptions, aided by the matronly grace and dignity of Mrs. Washington, the scene would be far gayer and more imposing than William Penn's house would have displayed, or the company of the richest Dutch "patroon" of New York could have presented in the seventeenth century. The Nation in a Nutshell
In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the wellbred laws of custom, I here suppress. XI. The Narrow Escape of Molly Seagrim. Book IV
It is a Wednesday morning and Roly Squire has a small window of time before he must dash across Leeds for the main operating session of the week.
In that era, heiresses were kidnapped and forced to marry landless ‘squireens’ who had no hope of getting a wife on their own merits.
There were long skirtings of dark pines around a portion of the Squire's property, and at the back of the house there was a thick wood of firs running up to the top of what was there called the Beacon Hill. Can You Forgive Her?
He was a country squire, and his family had been there for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
I have witnessed first hand the impact of an armored knight and horse, colliding with a standing squire.
In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the wellbred laws of custom, I here suppress. XI. The Narrow Escape of Molly Seagrim. Book IV
His father Lord Harvington was regarded as a member of the squirearchy, the former backbone of the Tory party - for which politics was a public duty rather than a career.
Coming from the lower reaches of the squirearchy herself, but having married an enormous fortune, she did not so much aim to entertain the very rich and very grand, but instead sought the company of intellectuals.
The Den was a pokerish cavern near Overset Pond, nine or ten miles to the northeast of the old Squire's place, about which clung many legends. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. Silas Marner
If you can get outside there are some tuna, jew and trag about with the odd squire and mackerel which are far and few between.
The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land.
Its Norman characteristic is found in the young _ecuyer_ or squire, of Chaucer, who aspires to equal his father in station and renown; while the English type of the man-at-arms (_l'homme d'armes_) is found in their attendant yeoman, the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
Soon she is the quarry of both the parson, who wants to keep her innocence intact, and the hard-drinking, fox-hunting squire, who wants his wicked way with her.
Oal right, Cap'n," replied Israel, "I jist want to go and spaik to mauther, while the Squire do git the oull mare ready. The Birthright
But all could ride, fence, tilt, play at cards, and carve extremely well; for to these accomplishments many years of pagehood and squirehood were given. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
The next day, if he had passed the test, Olivier would be knighted, along with many other squires attending knights gathered here in Kazkraby for the tournament that always followed a meeting of the Council.
Off Byron the parrotfish and nice size squire and snapper are appearing.
Tailor are around most of the headlands, with some nice squire and bream being caught off Lennox Headland.
[2] All his squires were equipped as he was, with scarlet tunics, breastplates of bronze, and brazen helmets plumed with white, short swords, and a lance of cornel-wood apiece. Cyropaedia
The bowmen were dressed in green kirtles, rather shorter than those of the squires, and wore dark woolen hose; they carried their bows and arrows slung across their shoulders.
During your squireship you are expected to make a name for yourself.
Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home? The Man Between: An International Romance
The old 16 th-century Welsh squire - and crook - Sir John Wynn loved his ancestry.
Addison drove them to the railway station, where the old Squire checked their empty image "rafts" in the baggage car. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
Don Quijote is mightily impressed with his squire and plans to dub him a knight.
Andy finds time to squire a few pretty ladies around, too, and even his motherly Aunt Bee dallies with romance this season.
The muledrivers with their cudgels made short work of the pair, and Don Quijote and his faithful squire soon joined Rocinante on the ground.
They're called upon to seamlessly morph from domestic, to squire, to ingénue, to dragoman, to the overtly freakish.
Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
Fair be the fortunes of such a master and such a servant, the one the cynosure of knight – errantry, the other the star of squirely fidelity! Don Quixote
God be thanked, quoth she, who hath done me so great a favour; but tell me now, friend, what profit hast thou reaped by this thy squireship? The Fourth Book. XXV. Of the Falling out of Don Quixote and the Goatherd; with the Adventure of the Disciplinants, to Which the Knight Gave End to His Cost
This, the squire confessed, with some little hesitation, was a pheasant pie, though a peacock pie was certainly the most authentical; but there had been such a mortality among the peacocks this season, that he could not prevail upon himself to have one killed. 33 33 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Regiment went out for a walk — I stayd at home to keep house, Martin squired Charlotte home again at night sadly tired, for they all had tea at Highbury House &c. — Letter 325
Looking as if she saw him not, she put his arm aside, and requested that of Captain Craigengelt, who stood by the coach with his laced hat under his arm, having acted as cavaliere servente, or squire in attendance, during the journey. The Bride of Lammermoor
I have translated _squire_, because the donzel was a youth of gentle birth awaiting knighthood. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
I'd like to see Esquire, The Atlantic, and Scientific American in archived volumes. The Legal Underground:
There was one fire larger than the rest; from its dimensions, it might be termed a "bonfire," such as is made by the flattering and flunkeyish peasantry of old-world lands, when they welcome home the squire and the count. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
Esquire says Rachel Weisz is the most marriable woman on the planet The Big Lead
The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life.
Mixed bags including squire and trag, jew also were reported on the closer reefs off Ballina.
John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch. The White Company
You mean lying about your qualifications to impress clients is one thing, lying to the taxman is another?" asked Squires. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Esquire Bedels were superior to others in standing and provided the inferior bedels with food and shoes.
I was squired going out of the border.
Cotters, squireens, gossoons, lord lieutenants, and castle aid-de-camps, all pass in review before us, and the English reader will doubtless be diverted by the domestic economy, and good humored expedients, of the Dalton Family.
Economic and social changes in the early modern period enabled people to rise in social standing by learning proper deportment in the service of the nobility as knights, squires, pages and ladies-in-waiting.
There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather pompously that ‘I came over with the Normans.’
Impeccably tailored, barbered, and mustached in the manner of a young town squire, Charley boarded the train and shrank back at the sight of his highly peccable guest. Mark Twain
Yew trust me, and yew'll find plenty of room; but if yew don't feel quite comf'table, if I was yew I'd just lie off for a bit while you send in one of your boats and Squire First Lieutenant there, to see what it's like, and the sooner the better, for the sun's getting low, and as I dessay yew know better than I can tell _yew_, it ain't long after the sun sinks before it's tidy dark. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop
The Squire of Dames," for instance, by the wealthy Jew, Moses Mendez, fairly bristles with seld-seen costly words, like _benty_, _frannion_, etc., which it would have puzzled Spenser himself to explain. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
Gentleman, a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud; when the truth is, that the appellation of Gentleman, though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire, was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
‘You've cost us a place in the final, squire.’
With that came a squire and said: Madam, ye must purvey you tomorn for a champion, for else your sister will have this castle and also your lands, except ye can find a knight that will fight tomorn in your quarrel against Pridam le Noire. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
They are war-wounded, shell-shocked, tended by uniformed nurses rather than squires. Times, Sunday Times
And, I betcha this is ONE position he won't go all squirely on. Obama: Mental Distress Shouldn't Qualify As Exception For Late-Term Abortion
Five years later, he stopped taking drugs after an Esquire magazine cover story described his habit in graphic detail.
In 1953, the former Esquire magazine copywriter had launched Playboy, a magazine that, as Ms. Pitzulo describes it, championed as its ideal "a swinging single Lothario" who rejected marriage in favor of "self-indulgence, materialism and promiscuous bachelorhood. The Feminist Mystique of Hugh Hefner
If you survive being a page, and can stand being a squire, and pass the test of knighthood, then, and only then, will you be worthy of the title of a knight.
The golden chain reaches from squire to Boniface, and still lower in the social scale, wherever some snug little peculium is found to nestle. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
Striding out with his faithful hound at his heels, he would be the picture of the country squire were it not for his somewhat bizarre attire - cut-off shorts, a sleeveless T - shirt and a sailor's cap.
They would become "pert," as pages were supposed to be, and diffident as esquires, but as knights they would come back of themselves to the perfect ways of their childhood with a grace that became well the strength and self-possession of their knighthood. The Education of Catholic Girls
Untroubled by self-doubts and consistently successful, he is portrayed as having squired and bedded numerous women.
In close off Byron there were flathead and some fit looking squire, while out wider the cobia and mackerel and yellowfin tuna were the big drawcards.
Kina's weapon was a staff, and she was put into a group with 15 squires and 30 other pages, that also had staffs.
The March editions of Esquire, GQ and Arena are usually the fashion issues devoted to the new season's looks and trends.
She feared lest if she stayed at the Hall a shorter time the Squire might be annoyed. Wives and Daughters
Lord Hardwicke, as might have been expected, was among those 'men of metal and large acred squires,' as Disraeli called them, 'the flower of that great party which had been so proud to follow one who had been so proud to lead them, whose loyalty was too severely tried by the conversion of their chief to the doctrines of Manchester,' and early in February he wrote to Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
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The knight, desirous of knowing the cause that prompted Timothy to apothegmatise in this manner, looked through the grate, and perceived the squire fairly set in the stocks, surrounded by a mob of people. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
It lay beside the breastplate on the floor, slightly dirty because of Alfric2s lack of squirely attention, but impressive nonetheless, with its intricate weavings of inlay, copper and silver and brass. Virginity
Bassist Chris Squire - wearing a flouncy black smock over skin-tight Lycra leggings tucked into Doc Marten boots - was having more of a ball than most.
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And then there was the Bollin, with its shelvy banks, which Turpin cleared at a bound; the broad meadows over which he winged his flight; the pleasant bowling-green of the pleasant old inn at Hough, where he produced his watch to the Cheshire squires, with whom he was upon terms of intimacy; all brought something of the gallant robber to mind. Rookwood
It is a brilliant study, full of "onion atoms" as Sydney Smith's famous salad, and we flaunt it merrily in the face of those who are frequently crapehanging and dirging that we have no sparkling young C.estertons and Rebecca Wests and J.C. Squires this side of Queenstown harbor. Mince Pie
His cousins were less fortunate: they remained without a proper education; and would have to face the poverty and boredom of a narrow world of unlettered squireens.
Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
More conventionally, Squire Hamilton represents a type common in Hammer horrors of the period: the depraved, decadent aristocrat.
La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm – labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were. Don Quixote
To smoke was characteristic of the "cit," of the country squire, of the clergy (especially of the country parsons), and of those of lower social status. The Social History of Smoking
I think that the issue with WA/RP is more than just the Squires/Miller debacle. Wine Advocate Writers Spark Ethics Debate - Wall Street Journal | Dr Vino's wine blog
In the past, stag hunting had been the preserve of the aristocracy and small-scale hare and fox hunting that of the country squires.
The SQUIRE, though not lacking in moods of generosity, cannot abear a rival in the oratorical field. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
When he entered the shop, the pharmacopolist was much surprised, and said, with a congratulatory grin at the great man, "Dear me, Squire O'Grady, I'm delighted to see you. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
Now is not this better than feeding one's birds and one's bantams, poring one's eyes out over old histories, not half so extraordinary as the present, or ambling to Squire Bencow's on one's padnag, and playing at cribbage with one's brother John and one's parson? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
It will be necessary to explain to the reader that John was no other than John Perkins, Esquire, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, and that Miss Lucy was the daughter of the late The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
Mrs. Brownlow had ever been a great admirer of the young Squire, and did not admire him less now that he had come to his squireship. Ralph the Heir
During the period of squireship, the knight imparts his knowledge of combat law, technique, arms and armor to his squire.
The young squire and Master Roger was here yesterday. Wives and Daughters
Any knight of renown could make a knight, and the squire had but to kneel before him and receive the accolade.
The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
They climbed over the fence like monkeys while the squire and Gray fired at them.
She could remember, not the person, but all the recent memories of the old Squire, the veneration with which he was named, the masterdom which was attributed to him, the unequalled nobility of his position in regard to Dillsborough. The American Senator
Squire's Choice - sliced roast beef rolled up with a filling of pickled red cabbage and horseradish sauce. 3.
Squires were the sidekicks of knights, for whom the squires would polish the armor, feed the horse and cook meals.
The time-traveling exec is mistaken for Sancho Panza, Quixote's squire, and adventure ensues. Terry Gilliam Looks To Robert Duvall For His Don Quixote » MTV Movies Blog
Geraghty showed off a picture on his phone standing in front of a giant gilded Oscar statue in front of the Kodak Theatre, while Renner proudly squired his mother, Valerie Cearley, to their table at the ball. Oscar casts glow on after-parties
You axt I tother dâ ta zing a zong: now I dwont much like zum o 'thâ zongs that I hired thic night at squire Reevs's when we made an end o' Hâ-corrin: vor, zim ta I, there war naw moril to The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
Especially over-optimistic were those landowners who, envying the political rights and responsibilities of the English squire, sought to popularize in Russia the ideas of British liberalism.
† howard k. stern and larry birkhead are still trying to set the record straight ... popsquire Popbytes
The heir-at-law to the estate, now that the Esquire's son was dead, watched her madness with a cautelous avaricious desire. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfron or plaited head-piece upon his head, having a short spike projecting from the front. Ivanhoe
Alexander Woolcott, a prominent theater critic, squired her to plays.

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