There happened to be several squires of the old sort in the neighborhood, and with these Godfrey Hammond enjoyed a friendship based on mutual contempt.
What pricking of squires backwards and forwards, what clanking of hammers, what baying of hounds, that day!
Lemuel Squires was a narrow man, a born prosecutor.
For Lemuel Squires was of the character that makes the most terrible of criminal prosecutors--an honest, narrow man who was always absolutely convinced of the guilt of the accused from the moment that a charge had been made.
Then the grey-haired squires on their favourite hunters give such a tone to the affair.
A large advance from Philippa's marriage portion was employed in hiring a troop of knights and squires of Hainault and Holland.
Nor was his fidelity impaired either by the laxity which debarred him from higher ecclesiastical preferment or by his ambitious endeavours to raise the house of Shropshire squires from which he sprang into a great territorial family.
The Scots despised the disorderly mob of squiresand farmers, priests and canons, monks and friars.
He offered high wages to all crossbowmen, archers, knights, and squires who would follow him to Leeds, and summoned the levies of horse and foot from the towns and shires of the south-east.
His two young squires were posted at Duchess Susan's door when she arrived, and he received a blow from one of them in clearing a way for her.
That is a holocaust of squires reduced to make an incense for me, though you have not performed Druid rites and packed them in gigantic osier ribs.
Bertha constantly received congratulations from the surrounding squires on the admirable way in which Edward managed the place, and he, on his side, never failed to recount his triumphs and the compliments they occasioned.
The feast was extremely elegant, but it was not filling, which is unpleasant to elderly squires with large appetites.
She was terrified lest, to his humiliation, those old squires should pointedly ignore him.
At these bold words the French knights and squires drew their swords and ringed themselves round their captain, whereon Hugh and his party also drew their swords.
This then they did, helped or hindered by bowing squires whose language they could not understand.
Five French knights ride behind his banner, and with them ten squires and I know not how many men-at-arms.
As theirsquires discharged their rifles, numerous chiefs hastened forth from their tents, or from among the thickets and trees, mounting their chargers and galloping to meet their brothers in arms.
The squires of the knights, their pages, and other attendants followed, bringing up the cortege.
I had so often laid the hospitality of these worthy squires under contribution, that I was obliged 'en conscience' to make some return.
I found six or seven sturdy squires assembled: they do not think much, but their life is all the more gay and careless.
Keep away the wild beasts, and let no man touch them, neither squires nor varlets, until the hour, please God, of our return.
Gloucestershire squires had been the main stay of the Low-Church party, and the family tradition had remained the same to the days of Elizabeth Howard, little George's mother.
And he rose up, together with his nobles and their squires and their wives and daughters, and every one in the palace from the least to the greatest, and began to dance and sing.
Before landing he sent one of his most trusty squiresfor tidings as to how fared Sir Murdour, and received for answer that the quarrel still raged betwixt him and Sir Saber.
At this Don Quixote laughed, in spite of his hurts, and bade him complain whenever he pleased, for squires might lawfully do what was forbidden to knighthood.
At the pavilion, the state, splendour, and number of attendant knights and squires amazed him; but by them all he was received with the most courteous respect.
The Laird of Yardbire, the strongest man of the Border, fought three combats with English squires of the same degree, two on horseback and one on foot, and in all proved victorious.
I am so glad that my excellent lady is well, and the young squires and maidens all brisk and whole I hope?
They often wore their master's coat of arms and became their squires as part of their knightly education.
Justices of the Peace in rural areas were squires and in towns aldermen.
Many successful merchants and manufacturers bought landed estates and established a line of country squires or baronets or even peers.
The militia act of 1757 was designed to reassure squires they would not be used as adjuncts to the army.
This was the training in chivalry given to pages and squires in the halls and castles of the great.
After the shew was ended, the sometimes Lord was carried in state to his owne private chamber after this manner: First went two Squires with lights.
This, says the historian, excited a strong desire in the knights and squires of all these countries to attend to see the manners and equipages of the English, and others to tourney.
Then came two other squires whereof one carryed his dublet the other his breeches.
Then came 4 other Squires with lightes, and in the midst of them 4 schollers bearing on their shoulders a tombe or sepulcher adorned with scutchions and little flagges, wherein all the Prince's honours had bene buried before.
All these beeing entered the hall, the squires made their attendance about him, with great observance, every one reaching him his apparrell as it pleased him to call for it, and then also helping him on with it.
This could be no friendly call from our neighboring knights and squires so early in the day.
Six armored knights with their squires and a hundred men-at-arms made up the Mountjoy quota; and these my father, liege lord of the domain and loyal subject of the crown, lost no time in bringing together.
Then the two squires tended Nestor's horses, even Sthenelos the valiant and kindly Eurymedon: and the other twain both mounted upon Diomedes' car.
So his squires thereat with gladness took his armour from his shoulders; and Nestor stood up and spake amid the Argives: "Fie upon it, verily sore lamentation cometh on the land of Achaia.
Let our squires hold the horses by the dyke, while we being harnessed in our gear as foot soldiers follow all together with Hector, and the Achaians will not withstand us, if indeed the bands of death be made fast upon them.
And they laid them in the huts and set the women there, and gallant squiresdrave the horses among their troop.
Thine let our squires tend, and these let us guide straight against the horse-taming Trojans, that even Hector may know whether my spear also rageth in my hands.
At the gate of the palace waited the Lord Montagu's palfrey and his retinue of twenty squires and thirty grooms.
I fear, sire, that the disturbances are great indeed, for the squires and gentlemen in Lady Anne's train have orders to accompany her to Calais to-morrow.
From these he singled out one of the squires who usually attended Henry, and bade him light his steps to the king's chamber.
Behind the earl and countess followed Sir Hoel de St. Brice and Sir Alain de Gourin, both in full harness, attended by several squires and pages.
Trains of sumpter mules and squires with led horses mingled with the infantry; and shouts and laughter, the braying of trumpets and neighing of horses, mixed fitfully in the soft south wind.
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