"Squire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hard on the philosophers. I do not know whether Langham or the Squire is the more unpleasant—but I have a great deal of sympathy with the latter, so I hope he is not ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... of the gods', and is situated in the Wairarappa (rippling or sparkling water) district. They have a pretty little legend to the effect that the name of the district was not originally suggested by its rivers, streams, and lakes, but by the tears alleged to have been noticed, by a dusky squire, in the eyes of a warrior chief who was looking his first, or last—I don't remember which—upon the scene. He was the discoverer, I suppose, now I come to think of it, else the place would have been already named. Maybe the scene reminded ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson
... wander up the streams, taking a fish here and a fish there, till—Really it is very hot. We have the whole day before us; the fly will not be up till five o'clock at least; and then the real fishing will begin. Why tire ourselves beforehand? The squire will send us luncheon in the afternoon, and after that expect us to fish as long as we can see, and come up to the hall to sleep, regardless of the ceremony of dressing. For is not the green drake on? And while he reigns, all hours, meals, decencies, ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley
... class. Commencing at the railway station and going eastward by the principal street, the Via Vittorio Emanuele, we have the G. H. de la Paix, close to the station and fronting the public garden. Then follow the H. and P. Nationale, 7 to 8frs.; the *H. San Remo; the P. Suisse; the Rubino Bank; the Squire-Pharmacy; the Asquasciate Bank; the Vicario Store; the P. Molinari, and the H. Bretagne, frequented principally by commercial travellers. Behind Squire's is the Episcopal Chapel, and a little farther west, ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... wrong, and without thinking, young squire," said the man. "But you take my advice, and don't you meddle with anything ...
— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn
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