SQUIRE in a Sentence

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For SQUIRE, below is one of 39 sentences:
You see, if I am to be squire down there I must dress the part, and it may be that I have got a little careless in my ways out West.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squire
 n.  an English country landowner
 n.  a man who attends or escorts a woman
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The Disinherited Knight then addressed his discourse to Baldwin, the squire of Brian de Bois-Guilbert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  You have spoken well, good squire," said the Disinherited Knight, "well and boldly, as it beseemeth him to speak who answers for an absent master.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  First let us speak of thy master; the knight's matters must go before the squire's, according to the due order of chivalry.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  "There are at least two hundred men assembled in the woods," answered a squire who was in attendance.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  So please ye," said the squire, who was still in attendance, "I think old Urfried has them somewhere in keeping, for love of the confessor.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  This letter being folded, was delivered to the squire, and by him to the messenger who waited without, as the answer to that which he had brought.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  The squire departed with a profound reverence, and in a few minutes returned, marshalling in Isaac of York.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Ay, gracious sir," answered the Jew, with more confidence; "and knight and yeoman, squire and vassal, may bless the goodly gift which Heaven hath assigned to her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  There had been no welcome home for the young squire, no festivities, no deputation, not even a single flower.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  New mining villages crowded on the park, and the squire felt somehow that the population was alien.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  You see, if I am to be squire down there I must dress the part, and it may be that I have got a little careless in my ways out West.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
14  I am only a simple Norfolk squire, but there is not a man in England who ranks his family honour more highly than I do.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
15  We had not long to wait, for our Norfolk squire came straight from the station as fast as a hansom could bring him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
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