Sentence examples for the squire of from inspiring English sources

The squire of the day, a former army major, picked him from 80 applicants.

No political conversation is complete without a knowing reference to the squire of Hyde Park.

The poet and playwright Thomas Shadwell, in his 1688 play "The Squire of Alsatia", characterized the place as an unconquered affront to English rule: "Was ever such impudence suffer'd in a Government?

Titled "The Squire of Gothos" and broadcast in the show's first season, the episode featured Mr. Campbell as a dandified alien obsessed with human history of the 18th century.

"Unbroken" will arrive a few weeks before the first post-Jonas Brothers solo release by Joe Jonas, Ms. Lovato's onetime paramour, who was the squire of choice among the late-aughts teen set.

It could be said that the squire of Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Warren Wright, Sr., had a sixth sense for making the right buy at the right time.

It was a disguise, in the same way that the leader of the troupe wears a top hat and is called the squire to take the mickey out of the local squire.

The Squire clan of Broomfield, Colo., came to New York to claim Willow, who wandered out of the house five years ago when a contractor left the door open, only to turn up in a Manhattan pet shelter last week.

And Pratchett, in his trademark black fedora, is every inch the local squire of an inverted world.

A member of the military elite of the First French Empire and a recipient of the Grand Aigle de la Légion d'Honneur, Comte de Nansouty was a member of the Military Household of the Emperor as First Squire of the Emperor, and also held the position of Colonel-General of Dragoons.

In 1973, the 6-11 Nater was drafted by the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association and was sold to the San Antonio Spurs, the beginning of a productive 11-year career.