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William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!
thomas hardy— Friends Beyond, lines 1-3, from Wessex Poems (1898).
What about what he lives for, squire? Isn't that the true measure of a man, what he lives for?
arthur m. jolly— Jim Hawkins, Act II, Scene 6
Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
orson scott card— Chapter 6 (Seventh Son (1987))
The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.
— Washington Irving, in "Christmas Eve" in The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1820)
Yet was he but a squire of low degree.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book IV, Canto VII, Stanza 15.
What baron or squire or knight of the shire, lives half so well as a holy friar.
— John O'Keefe, I am a Friar of Orders Gray.
The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.
— Washington Irving, in "Christmas Eve" in The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1820)
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree, In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
— R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw of Rheims; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 402.
