squire

• "I call it downright wicked of the squire to suspect you of such a thing Well, mother, it does look very bad against me," Reuben said, wiping his eyes at last, "and I don't know as the squire is so much to be blamed for suspecting me. —  A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
• A plain English squire, one of that "happy breed of men" to whom his native land--"this little world, this precious stone set in a silver sea"--was dearer than the blood of kings, was destined to inaugurate a new epoch in the {8} annals of the Abbey. —  Westminster Abbey
• It came on the following day, when the squire was at the post office He was standing in a corner looking over the various letters he had received when he heard Henry Bott, the clerk, address a few words to a laboring man who had come in to post a letter Kind of mysterious about Ralph Nelson?" —  The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
• He stood over his master where he fell, and I trow the French got not his body so long as the squire was alive; but I saw not the end of it, for my master bade me thence I pray you," interposed a third squire, "wit you who is yon youth that rideth by the King's left hand The tall, pale, fair-haired youth on the white horse He That is the Lord Marnell--a new favourite The Lord Marnell! —  Mistress Margery
• But I don't know how that can be, for I heard how as the squire was a-dying, so 'taint likely that he was a-going out. —  Dawn

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