Squire in example sentence

But the mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the peaceful enjoyment of your kingdom, the poor squire is famishing as far as rewards go, unless it be that the confidante damsel that is to be his wife comes with the princess, and that with her he tides over his bad luck until Heaven otherwise orders things; for his master, I suppose, may as well give her to him at once for a lawful wife."

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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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