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Usage examples of squires.

In like manner are the antients, such as Homer, Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and the rest, to be esteemed among us writers, as so many wealthy squires, from whom we, the poor of Parnassus, claim an immemorial custom of taking whatever we can come at.

Reform Bill, but had been infamously active in bringing over other young peers so to vote, and whose name therefore stank in the nostrils of the staunch Tory squires of the county.

Though he had in his very earliest manly years given such great offence by indifference to his family politics, and had in a certain degree fostered the ill-feeling by contesting the county in opposition to the wishes of his brother squires, nevertheless, he bore a loved and popular name.

I believe, will deny but that those squires fulfil this end of their creation.

Sportsmen, in the warmth of a chace, are too much engaged to attend to any manner of ceremony, nay, even to the offices of humanity: for, if any of them meet with an accident by tumbling into a ditch, or into a river, the rest pass on regardless, and generally leave him to his fate: during this time, therefore, the two squires, though often close to each other, interchanged not a single word.

As soon, therefore, as the sport was ended by the death of the little animal which had occasioned it, the two squires met, and in all squire-like greeting saluted each other.

Paks looked at the squires, to find both of them staring at her with glowing eyes.

He insisted on donning his formal mail, and Esceriel and I, and two others of his squires, will bear his chair down.

In courtesy, no one looked as the squires helped the king from the carrying chair to the one that awaited him.

Then they left, and the squires lifted him back to the carrying chair, to take him to his chambers for the formal laying out.

Garris, the eldest of the squires, who had squired for the previous king as well, led the way through the woods southward.

By the time she rode up to the man, the squires had explained the quest, and the man bowed.

By the time they were huddled in the tent, which had been cross-braced with limbs against the snow-weight, she felt at ease with the squires for the first time.

Kieri seemed to like elves as well as any of the squires, and he has said since that elves have done him favors from time to time.

The squires looked curiously at them as they entered the Hall, where everyone waited at the tables.