Barons
[bærənz]
Examples
- The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons, seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants of this kind to their burghs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- One of the brightest jewels in the British crown, wrung from his Majesty by the barons, I believe, Mr. Jinks? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They are supposed to have belonged to some of the marauding Barons of Holdernesse in the Middle Ages. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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