Squire in example sentence

For all that, he was much grieved at the loss of his lance, and saying so to his squire, he added, "I remember having read how a Spanish knight, Diego Perez de Vargas by name, having broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a ponderous bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descendants from that day forth were called Vargas y Machuca.

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Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley, who was the literary companion to the Marquis of Lansdowne when he discovered oxygen.

As his squire Sancho Panza explains to him time and again, these aren’t giants; they are merely windmills.

This unconventional meta-awareness created philosophical complexity, as the knight and his squire ponder the meaning of their story.

I think that probably had all to do with the performance of Charles Laughton as the haughty squire, Sir Humphrey Pengallan.

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