squires

’” “Verily, ” said the emperor, “he said truth, for he called the squires the bridge, that should have ridden before you, and assayed the deepness of the water.

The Husband of Aglaes From “Gesta Romanorum 1907

"Verily," said the emperor, "he said truth, for he called the squires the bridge, that should have ridden before you, and assayed the deepness of the water."

Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

Delaware, like some other states, allows fees to constables and to the "squires" -- Justices of the Peace they would be elsewhere -- for arrests, and it is a common practice to advertise for fruit pickers, then arrest them as tramps when they come, and the next day release them on condition that they will leave the county at once -- and leave the trap open for the next comer.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

Note that the progress from squires hunting pheasants to moneylenders hunting the squires is scarcely a welcome progress: indeed, it may be compared to another poem in which Chesterton laments that it may be the squire "was stricken; it may be after all, he was stricken at Waterloo" (165).

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

Red Shield turned and called his squires, and so passed forth on his way, and rode a great pace.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

The brawling of the squires was a jest to all the adjoining part of the house.

Men of Iron 1891

The brawling of the squires was a jest to all the adjoining part of the house.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

I did not know that the Laird (as they always seem to call the squires here) had been a titled gentleman: and I said so.

Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864

A village grocer cannot make a large fortune, cannot marry his daughters to titled squires, and cannot die without having his children brought to him, if in the neighbourhood, by fear of village gossip, if for no better cause.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

A village grocer cannot make a large fortune, cannot marry his daughters to titled squires, and cannot die without having his children brought to him, if in the neighborhood, by fear of village gossip, if for no better cause.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859