Sentence examples for portion of sir from inspiring English sources

High waves eroded a portion of Sir Francis Drake Highway, and the high winds destroyed the roof of an apartment.

Nor did it include The Two Noble Kinsmen, Edward III, the portion of The Book of Sir Thomas More that Shakespeare may have contributed, or the Cardenio that Shakespeare appears to have written with John Fletcher and that may have provided the basis for Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood in 1727.

The colony angered the king by purchasing the claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges to portions of Maine in 1677, a territory Charles had intended to acquire for his son, the Duke of Monmouth.

PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm.

of Sir Christopher Wren.

It's not true of Sir Walter Scott.

Mentions the speech of Sir Mohammed Zafullah Kahn.

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Son of Sir Brownlow Cust.

In 1642 Hale married Anne Moore, the daughter of Sir Henry Moore, a Royalist soldier, and the granddaughter of Sir Francis Moore, a Serjeant-at-Law under James I. Moore and Hale had 10 children, but she was evidently a highly extravagant woman, with Hale warning his children that "an idle or expensive wife is most times an ill bargain, though she bring a great portion".

Sir Richard used a sizeable portion of the net proceeds from this sale to bail himself out of financial difficulties within his then deeply indebted retail empire.