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• “Chairman, in the trial of Lord Bacon, when the court disturbed the counsel for the defendant, Sir Walter Raleigh raised himself up to his full height and, addressing the court, said: “Sir, I am pleading for the life of a human being.”

  George Henry White (1852-1918)

• “Define Sir Roger's peculiar humor, and contrast it with that of some other character in the _Sir Roger de”

  Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College

• “This often quoted saying is curiously illustrated by a passage from the romance of Sir Gawaya and the Grene Knicht (Madden's _Sir Gawaya_, p. 77.):”

  Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850

• “’ Sir Eustace said: ‘Sir, let us all be afoot, except three hundred men of arms, well horsed, of the best in your host and most hardiest, to the intent they somewhat to break and to open the archers, and then your battles to follow on quickly afoot and so to fight with their men of arms hand to hand.”

  The Battle of Poitiers. Of the Order of the Frenchmen before the Battle of Poitiers

• “ECTOR DE MARIS (_Sir_), brother "of Sir Launcelot" of Benwick, _i. e.”

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

• “There stood Sir John, looking as wild as a newly taken Irishman, fresh from the bogs of that country; and there stood the electors, bawling _Sir John Jarvis for ever!”

  Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

• “Purchas has also added several letters said to have been found among the papers of Sir Thomas Roe, with some others which he says were transcribed from _Sir Thomas Roe's own book_.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “III. iii.65 (296,2) [Sir Oliver] He that has taken his first degree at the university, is in the academical style called _Dominus_, and in common language was heretofore termed _Sir_.”

  Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

• “Sir JoHW Barnard lofe here and fpoke thus: — »Sir, I rife up only to anfwer a queftion, which is, whether properly or not, put to mt, and hope the irregularity will not be imputed to me by the htftife, but to the occafion which produces it.”

  Internet Archive: Debates in Parliament

• “[Footnote 41: One of the Secretaries of the Treasury: afterwards Lord Cottesloe.] [Footnote 42: Forwarded to the Queen by Sir Robert Peel.] _Sir Robert Peel to the Prince Albert.”

  The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861

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