squireling

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No, that was for some lucky one of her own class and state, not for a simple squireling like me.

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  1. A petty squire; a squirelet. But to-morrow, if we live, Our ponderous squire will give A grand political dinner To half the squirelings near. Tennyson, Maud, xx. 2.

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  • In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic boobyism, and his lack-brain originality, this pithless hereditary squireling is quite inimitable and irresistible;—a tall though slender specimen of most effective imbecility, whose manners and character must needs all be from within, because he lacks force of nature to shape or dress himself by any model. —  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.
  • In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic boobyism, and his lack-brain originality, this pithless hereditary squireling is quite inimitable and irresistible;--a tall though slender specimen of most effective imbecility, whose manners and character must needs all be from within, because he lacks force of nature to shape or dress himself by any model. —  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
  • No, that was for some lucky one of her own class and state, not for a simple squireling like me. —  The Yeoman Adventurer
  • She walked the village like a queen, and no Fen farmer or squireling ventured to jest with her. —  More Pages from a Journal
  • The conquest and subjection of New Spain synchronised curiously with the profound crisis in, and the conquest and domination of, Old Spain by its own king, a governing genius and leader of men almost as great as was the obscure Estramaduran squireling who was adding to the newly unified crown of Spain that which was to be its richest jewel in the —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
 

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