The squire was becoming quite an adept at the game.

I cry your worship mercy, Mistress Warman: The squire, your husband, was his servant once.

That squire, young and beautiful and bursting with ambition, was only a play-thing, toothy toy, to dally with and break.

" Now I mention no Mr. BICKERSTAFF, nor do I say that a certain star-gazing Squire has been a playing my executor before his time: but I leave the World to judge, and if it puts things to things fairly together, it won't be much wide of the mark.

The old Squire was king of the breakfast table, and broke many a jesting shaft at one and all, not even sparing the stately Miss Lavinia, and the rugged bear who scowled across the table.

The squire, Rowland Lester, a man of cultivated tastes, was a widower, with two daughters and a nephew.

But the squire himself was the foe whom Harry most feared.

The best squire I know in fiction is Duke Theseus in "The Midsummer Night's Dream," who is kind to his people and proud of his dogs; and would be a perfect human being if he were not just a little bit prone to be kind to both of them in the same way.

And he went to church very regularly, having renewed his intimacy with Mr. Bromley, the parson, a gentleman who had unfortunately found it necessary to quarrel with the old squire, because the old squire had been so manifestly a pagan.

The squire was hospitality itself, and certainly would never have said a word to make his house other than pleasant to his own girl's husband.

They knew the squire to be a fool, but they believed him to be a gentleman.

The squire of my father's time was the county member, and the day he was elected there were two hogsheads of port and two of brandy broached on the lawn in front of the terrace; and for a week afterwards there was scarcely a sober man in the town for miles round.

" "To-morrow," said the squire, "at break of day, we be a-going a-birding, to try some young falcons Bill Peregrine has lately trained.

The contempt was because Hewelscourt had been built within the memory of living man, and only two generations of Hewels born therein; the tolerance because the present owner, though not a wealthy man, was as liberal in his dealings as their squire was the reverse.

"I passed another drove," said the squire, with one of your countrymen behind them, they were something less beasts than your drovedoddies most of them; a big man was with themnone of your kilts though, but a decent pair of breeches;d'ye know who he may be?" "Hout aythat might, could, and would pe Hughie MorrisonI didna think he could hae peen sae weel up.

But the Squire was a man who could have an opinion of his own; and after having elicited that of Mr. Bromley, insisted that the invitation should be sent.

II.The Squire At a small distance from our habitation was a seat overshaded by a hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.

The reduced squire was Mr. Humphrey Armitage, of Brackley Hall.

It is true that the ideal Englishman was too much of a squire; but it is just to add that the ideal squire was a good squire.

The squire was a Lett, his name Shtoppev; and he had an expression on his face as if he were going to wink and say: "Wouldn't it be nice to have a drink?"

The neighboring Kentish Squires, Sir Timothy Harrison, Squire Pyncheon and Sir John Boatfield, were the only presentations of "gentlemen" he had ever seen.

A BUMPKIN OR COUNTRY SQUIRE Is a clown of rank and degree.

And although (as of early 2004) the most recent tournament was held around 1995, the National Squash Tennis Association considered Gary Squires to be the reigning champion when it reported to the New York Times through 2000 for the paper's annual comprehensive list of national sports champions.