Squires
[skwaɪəz]
Examples
- Squires of the Boar! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She had flirted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country afforded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Lastly, he laid aside his shield, which had received some little damage, and received another from his squires. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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