squirearchal

Perhaps one should emphasize here that he has gone out of his way, from time to time and far beyond the call of duty, to burnish his reputation as a cantankerous curmudgeon — truly the Evelyn Waugh of our age, right down to his squirearchal residence in the west of England — or even as a bigoted old barroom kvetch.

A Terrifying Honesty 2002

Perhaps one should emphasize here that he has gone out of his way, from time to time and far beyond the call of duty, to burnish his reputation as a cantankerous curmudgeon — truly the Evelyn Waugh of our age, right down to his squirearchal residence in the west of England — or even as a bigoted old barroom kvetch.

A Terrifying Honesty 2002

"We take that for granted; and then, you know --" So Lady Chiltern went on, dilating upon a future state of squirearchal bliss and rural independence.

Phineas Redux 1873

"We take that for granted; and then, you know --" So Lady Chiltern went on, dilating upon a future state of squirearchal bliss and rural independence.

Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848

I suppose our English habit of talking on the weather arose when we were all a squirearchal farming, George-the-Third kind of people!

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I suppose our English habit of talking on the weather arose when we were all a squirearchal farming, George-the-Third kind of people!

Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

“We take that for granted; and then, you know — “So Lady Chiltern went on, dilating upon a future state of squirearchal bliss and rural independence.

Phineas Redux 2004