Squire

//ˈskwaɪə//

"Squire" in a Sentence (23 examples)

With him there was his son, a young squire, a lover and a lusty bachelor, with locks curled as if they had been laid in a press.

Tom is a squire.

With him, Achilles' charioteer and squire, / Automedon, huge Periphas and all / the Scyrian youth rush up, and flaming fire / hurl to the roof, and thunder at the wall.

Some good news: it was the knight with his squire.

The squire observed the whole spectacle with astonishment.

John practised for some time as a barrister, but had finally settled down to the more congenial life of a country squire.

The main characters of the novel are Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

Pardon me, squire, but you're starting to get on my nerves!

I know that my squire will marvellously impersonate the grace, voice, poise, and gestures of a noblewoman.

I know that my young squire will marvelously assume the grace, voice, poise, and gestures of a woman of noble bearing.

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A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.]

Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born, Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.]

Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.

[O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.

Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.

To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.

Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin’s, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her.

And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

A butch entered squiring a blonde whore tottering along on spike heels under dairy whip hair, her chubby hand rising again and again to tuck a stray wisp back into the creamy dome.

But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.

do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.

as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole, […].

twelve foot and a half by the squire.

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