Copley became second baronet on his father's death about 1684. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
There are also reasons for connecting the portrait with one of a certain English baronet named Sheffield, who was likewise in. From Wordnik.com. [Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation] Reference
"Did you not tell me that the baronet is your puppet?". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Englishmen, themselves, acknowledge that a baronet was a greater man, in. From Wordnik.com. [Satanstoe] Reference
My own experience with them showed that the baronet is a frugal traveler. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
Although not yet forty, the baronet was a chronic sufferer from this complaint. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
The baronet was a poor creature, but not probably so utterly vile as he thought him. From Wordnik.com. [Kept in the Dark] Reference
The baronet was a young man at the time, but he has a face that no one could ever forget. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
The baronet was a good deal disconcerted by his intimation, saying, that he must be a Goth and. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
When they came within sight of the party, the baronet was again seized with the extremest dismay. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference
We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural. From Wordnik.com. [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference
‘I do,’ said I, ‘a baronet is a baronet, but a bard is a bard. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
"No: it was presumptuous -- beyond a certain point," said the baronet, meaning deep things. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
And Flavelle had been for one year then a baronet. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
He was made a baronet in 1883; retired from teaching in. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The baronet frowned half in perplexity, half in protest. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Nay, if they could get even a Nova Scotia baronet -- a Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
"Perhaps," said the man of law, interrupting the baronet in the midst. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
MacNab, an ardent loyalist, afterwards a baronet and premier of Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
His eldest son, the third Robert and the second baronet, is our subject. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Rapidly he scanned the score of lines of small type devoted to the baronet. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Commons, but was shortly released by order of the King and created a baronet. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The baronet rose in surprise, wondering at his entering the room unannounced. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
"Yes, my poor woman," said the baronet; "is there any thing I can do for you?". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
English baronet, and who expresses no surprise at the presence of a lady there. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Abbotsford, or have felt prouder to know that a poet had been created a baronet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
President of the British Association, was knighted in 1848, and made a baronet in 1864. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
"I shall be made a baronet and both of us will be rich," exclaimed the excited Hargraves. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
He burst into the bedroom of the discomfited baronet and asked him to remove his disguise. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
The Flavelle family afterwards moved to Lindsay, where the future baronet went into business. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Farquhar, Sir Walter, physician (made a baronet in 1796), visited a patient at Pomeroy Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
As the baronet sat there on horseback, and looked around, more than one living object met his eye. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
After all, their former prejudice in favour of the young baronet was based on very shallow foundations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The enmity of the baronet was all the more painful to himself that he felt it to be harmless against its object. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
A baronet, who went to Schweitzer's to get himself equipped in the first style, asked him what cloth he recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
James dying at this point, Charles I. carried out the scheme, creating the first Scottish baronet on the 28th of May. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In 1781 he was made a baronet; in 1795 he received the order of the Bath; and in 1797 he was admitted to the privy council. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The news soon got about, and considerable jealousy is felt at our Zoo, where there is not so much as even a baronet among the inmates. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
The successful General, a New Englander by birth, was created a baronet of Great Britain, in recognition of his important services to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
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