Sentence examples for squire with from inspiring English sources

Potocki, a country squire with little formal education, wrote most of his verse (about 300,000 lines) to please himself.

The father of our revolution, George Washington, while capable of impressive frugality and self-denial, nevertheless aspired to the life of a country squire, with an eye for the latest dishware, jewelry and clothing from England.

Not their rustic, rumbustious pupil breaking every all-rounder Test record that was going, resurrecting the game as a sport and ending up as an estate-owning squire with columns framing the front doorstep, trout in the lake, horses in the stable, farm workers in the yard and a Mercedes on the gravel.

If you want a set of Custom Shop '69s, and you liked what you heard on a guy playing with a Fender American Standard through a 1959 SLP Marshall Tube amp head and 4X12 cabinets, and you have a Squire with a Frontman solid state amp or any other low budget amp, it will not sound the same.

When I attended elementary school in the '60s and '70s my teachers put up all kinds of holiday decorations in the classroom and my parents piled my brother and sister and I in the powder blue family station wagon, the classic Ford Countryy Squire" with wood paneling on the sides to go and see the holiday lights at "Candy Cane Lane" in Woodland Hills, Calif.

For more than 20 years Winthrop was primarily a country squire at Groton, with no discernible interest in overseas colonization.

(Years later, Griggs, who works as a public-relations consultant, enjoys being a part-time country squire: lawn bowling with men several decades older in Madison and collecting and displaying local postcards).

Sometine after dinner on a Saturday night, a Connecticut squire rushed in with the news that some of his cows were loose & the guests would have to turn out to help him round them up.

By Harold Ross and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, July 3, 1943 P. 13 Sometine after dinner on a Saturday night, a Connecticut squire rushed in with the news that some of his cows were loose & the guests would have to turn out to help him round them up.

Despite the bankruptcy and lack of wine production at Oasis in recent years, as was apparent during the couple's role in the one-season Housewives of D.C. reality TV show, the Salahis reveled in the image of country squire vineyard operators with Oasis as their rural castle getaway.

His garrulous, retiring headmaster's opening speech to the parents before the end-of-term play is a tour de force, full of puns, prayers, mock heroics, digressions and references to village cenotaphs proudly carved with heroes' names, "squire's son rubbing shoulders with blacksmith's boy in the magnificent equality of death".