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Sentence Examples
| But the Duchess rushes to her pet's defense and says she will not be parted from the wise squire. |
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| Unrelenting and pitiless in their quest for fun, they snuff out their torches and shout louder while walking upon the poor squire. |
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| The muledrivers with their cudgels made short work of the pair, and Don Quijote and his faithful squire soon joined Rocinante on the ground. |
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| The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life. |
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| Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich. |
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| The Knight of the Wood's squire also believes that knight errants' squires receive governorships of islands and countships too. |
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| It was built by squire John Walter Barry in 1883 as a pigsty for his two sows. |
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| During the period of squireship, the knight imparts his knowledge of combat law, technique, arms and armor to his squire. |
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| 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. |
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| Andy finds time to squire a few pretty ladies around, too, and even his motherly Aunt Bee dallies with romance this season. |
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| Marcia was such a knockout I wanted to squire her about to show her off, but she would have none of that. |
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| Surely, some Light Colonel with a busted marriage could be convinced to squire her around town while he waits out his retirement papers. |
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| Offshore and the lads got onto the close reefs for some squire, snapper and trag jew. |
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| Teraglin seem to be the best bet at the moment but with some nice squire mixed in with them. |
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| Mixed bags including squire and trag, jew also were reported on the closer reefs off Ballina. |
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| Gary of Ballina Charters has been out a few times with yellowtail kingies, mowies and nice sized squire coming home in the icebox. |
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| 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. |
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| Tailor are around most of the headlands, with some nice squire and bream being caught off Lennox Headland. |
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| So it seems that your working career, squire, is very much tied up with the World Club Championship bid from the Wolves. |
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| He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees. |
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| Any knight of renown could make a knight, and the squire had but to kneel before him and receive the accolade. |
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| A squire could also be knighted on the battlefield, in which a lord simply performed the accolade. |
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| Don Quijote is mightily impressed with his squire and plans to dub him a knight. |
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| He has been out a few times with yellowtail kingies, mowies, and nice sized squire coming home in the icebox. |
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| Allow me to introduce you to my squire, and good kinsman, the noble Valerius de Aurelius. |
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| Scott, by contrast, is very much the country squire, down in town from his home in the Borders. |
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| The most important things a squire learns from his lord, Milord, are skill at arms and the proper deportment of a knight. |
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| He journeyed to fight for her, but when he returned, she was wedded to a petty Gascon squire, who had done nothing for her! |
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| There is speculation that he was born on the wrong side of the blanket, as the illegitimate son of a local squire. |
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| Sir Evelyn's squire bowed, holding out the reins to the horse. |
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| Edward was in the stunned process of thanking him, his head still all in a whirl with the terrible news, when the squire entered the room again, followed by Ellen. |
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| There Val waxed in wit and strength, became squire and friend to Sir Gawain and, through many feats of bravery, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. |
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| Seemingly sad beyond consolation, the widow begs the squire to finish her off the same way. |
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| It would have looked slightly odd to an outsider, a noblewoman all but begging her brother's squire not to make her trudge through the woods after a mysterious cry. |
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| Nevertheless, he was wealthy enough to build Vaucluse House, still one of the best Georgian buildings in the country, and live there, as he said, like a squire at home. |
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| We know that he was born into a family of high standing in France and he describes himself as a squire, certainly suggesting that his family were wealthy landowners. |
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| 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. |
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| A squire takes his fallen master's identity to joust in medieval combat. |
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| 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. |
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| Off Byron the parrotfish and nice size squire and snapper are appearing. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear. |
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| To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire. |
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| Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots. |
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| Bruce took the hint, and he and a squire fled the English court during the night. |
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| Outside the chapel in the weeping mirk a squire held his shield, another his helm, a groom walked his horse. |
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| From the ashes of war, through blood feuds and divided loyalties, a young squire will rise to defy England's king. |
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| He was a country squire and looked to country gentlemen for his political base. |
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| Unlike the English country squire, the strong-handed farmer in America was a self-made man. |
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| The second opinion holds that the Sunday roast dates back to medieval times, when the village serfs served the squire for six days a week. |
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| When the living became vacant in 1881, he was able to appoint himself to it, becoming parson as well as squire. |
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| Duarte Pacheco had served the previous king as a squire, and had served King Manuel merely as a high ranking servant. |
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| During his adolescence, he served as a page and squire to Don Pedro de Portocarrero, lord of Moguer. |
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| The role of the squire was to attend the battle and to arrange the particulars of the ceremony with the opposing squire. |
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| In practice, a person facing trial by combat was assisted by a second, often referred to as a squire. |
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| The poem is addressed to a local squire, thanking him for a fishing net on a patron's behalf. |
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| Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly. |
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| For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses. |
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| Sir Alfred Askew only bought the property last year when he retired from India, but is determined to play the local squire, complete with monocle. |
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| Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. |
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| In his youth he served as the King of Portugal's personal squire. |
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| Ser Dunaver's squire Jodge could not hold his water when he slept. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| By the Holy Cross, Constantine, replied the squire, you do see me in the body. |
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| A steed led by the squire in dester was the destrier or dextrarius, or war-horse. |
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| Then, bidding Eadgyth to attend her, she proceeded at once to the spital, to leech the unfortunate squire. |
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| It was friendly in the squire to give me this mass of executorial accounts to arrange. |
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| In the village I have just come from the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty. |
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| So all pitied the poor Vicar, despised his uppish, false-hearted wife, and most hated the young squire. |
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| All Carmarthenshire knew that he had done his best to induce the old squire to maintain Isabel as his heiress. |
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| She's for some splendid young Devon squire, six foot high, and acred and whiskered within an inch of his life! |
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| First of all was Queequeg, whom Starbuck, the chief mate, had selected for his squire. |
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| The squire said something of Government to my aunt Dorothy, with sarcastical emphasis. |
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| As the coomb opened, the squire went along a hedge near but not quite to the top. |
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| And you always a-telling me as squire said he wasn't to be coddled and cosseted. |
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| The squire hasn't finished the plans for the inside of the meeting house yet? |
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| The scene follows in which she plays squire to Antony and helps to buckle on his armour. |
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| The squire did as he was bidden, and told Sir Galahad of the white knight's words. |
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| The squire and his nephew were wrong in supposing that Crosbie was unpunished. |
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| This squire held the bridle of a destrier in his hand, though no man rode thereon. |
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| The squire was a thin, pale little man, with the pinched look of nearsightedness about his eyes. |
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| By the side of each baron, a squire, also on horseback, carried the seigniorial banner. |
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| The body of the French squire had been dragged out by them and hacked to pieces. |
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| Word had already fled like wildfire through the hamlet that the squire was there. |
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| He was a man of commanding stature, overtopping the squire who rode close behind him, and dwarfing the men-at-arms by contrast. |
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| He bade his squire to saddle his destrier, and rode to the palace, to have speech with the lady. |
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| Scarcely an instant elapsed before he was beside the squire, and presented a petronel at his head. |
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| The squire was unusually taciturn, Mrs. Hazeldean thoughtful, Mrs. Dale languid and headachy. |
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| After Aimery could strike the quintain with precision he took his first tilt against an older squire. |
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| Good-by to the Hispaniola, good-by to the squire, the doctor, and the captain. |
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| Lady Basset remained at Hazelwood, but her squire had not returned. |
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| Peterborough was plied by the squire for a description of German women. |
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| Come hither, young man, young English squire with the gray eyes! |
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| Henceforth for seven hours a day he strove in the tilt-yard to qualify himself to be a worthy squire to so worthy a knight. |
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| He went, in his boat, this time accompanied by a faithful squire, down the stream. |
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| No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire. |
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| I began to wonder how the young squire had found it in his conscience to recommend such a pair. |
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| By the side of the knight is laid Stolid man Sancho too, Than whom a squire more true Was not in the esquire trade. |
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| In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty. |
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| Poyser in a hard voice, rolling and unrolling her knitting and looking icily out of the window, as she continued to stand opposite the squire. |
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| It was a squire of Sir Mordred's, and he craved leave to speak. |
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| A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gamekeeper and a schoolmaster. |
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| Your squire Jocelyn knows him well, and will vouch him to be brother Ambrose, a monk in attendance upon the Prior of Jorvaulx. |
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| The oppressors of the parson had been the oppressors of the squire. |
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| Sir Nigel and Ford had ridden on in advance, the knight upon his hackney, while his great war-horse trotted beside his squire. |
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| In the rebellion of Forty-Five, this northern squire sided to serious purpose with Prince Charles and the Highlanders. |
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| The squire, however, sent after his sister the same holloa which attends the departure of a hare, when she is first started before the hounds. |
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| And as I resigned myself to this imperative though inglorious course, my heart warmed once more to the jovial young squire. |
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| He's a bad-tempered brute, and I wonder the squire keeps it. |
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| Let the bagman return to his business, the squire to his five-barred gate. |
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| The banner of the banneret and baron was displayed by the squire. |
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| Our Irish squire, Michael, carried Caesar, hooded and belled. |
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| Both the squire and I returned the shot, but as we had nothing to aim at, it is probable we only wasted powder. |
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| The ideal parson, that is, should be a squire in canonical dress. |
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| For me, I will ride into their camp with my squire and two archers. |
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| At the caravansary his squire came running out to hold his stirrup. |
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| The squire nodded and spat into the cuspidor between his feet. |
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| In the meantime the faithful squire was devising a plan of escape. |
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| But Fisher noticed that the laxity of the old squire was far less hated than the efficiency of the new squire. |
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| And here comes in at once the bestowal of rewards upon his squire and all who have aided him in rising to so exalted a rank. |
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| A bankruptcy company promoter named Werner discovered the secret and blackmailed the squire into surrendering the estate. |
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| And word was sent far and near, to squire and farmer, hedger and ditcher. |
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| His guns, dogs, and horses, were the things the squire held most dear. |
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| All his remembrances of the old squire were eulogistic and affectionate. |
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| The comic epic chronicles the adventures of Don Quixote and his capricious but good-humoured peasant squire Sancho Panza. |
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| Poyser interposed, scandalized at the mere suggestion that the young squire could be excluded by any meaner partners. |
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| I am no chicken, but I cannot claim to know as much of war as the squire of Sir Walter Manny. |
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| The squire greatly coveted the freehold of Queen Anne's Farm. |
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| And so also with the squire Le Bourg Capillet, who would have been a very valiant captain had he lived. |
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| Born of an old Alencon family, du Bousquier was a cross between the bourgeois and the country squire. |
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| D' ye know what the diggins the squire did it for, gaffer Solomons? |
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| You'd hardly ever bring round th' old squire to believe he'd gain as much in a straightfor'ard way as by tricks and turns. |
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| Ethan gnashed his teeth with rage, and so did the squire, his father. |
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| I then helped the squire to walk up the shoaling beach, out of the river. |
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| My father was an old fox-hunting squire in the quorn country. |
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| The squire to back us, Richie, we have command of the entire world. |
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| With him was a squire named Eurybates, a brown, round-shouldered man. |
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| Tell us, squire, when you see the match, and we'll hold water. |
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| The squire had them all broken up, but the pieces are there to this day. |
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| Carrasco undertook the task, and Tom Cecial, a gossip and neighbour of Sancho Panza's, a lively, feather-headed fellow, offered himself as his squire. |
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