Cameron to go to war with Tory 'squirearchy' who claimed swimming pools, helipad, chandelier ... and. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Croatia closer to first woman PM] Reference
We Palinodes have carried one kind of squirearchy to its ridiculous conclusion, that’s all. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Yet back home, the soccer squirearchy is not devoid of taste. From Wordnik.com. [Homes Of The Soccer Stars] Reference
But if Mr. Lampton was born to anything, it was the actuarial tables, not the squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [Squire of Indemnity Was a Louisville Legend] Reference
In the country more conscientious members of the squirearchy set a similar example in the Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
There was Sir Roger himself in the chair; and on either hand, a prodigious row of county squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
The Enlightenment collides with the squirearchy in this Regency novel set in a Welsh manor over Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Books on Drinking] Reference
To maintain a squirearchy, it is necessary to admire the new squire; and therefore to forget the old squire. From Wordnik.com. [G.K. Speaks - The Family and The Feud] Reference
It is this ‘squirearchy’ that most resembles the situation in the Shire at the time of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From Wordnik.com. [superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism] Reference
David Beatty was born on January 17, 1871, in a country house in Cheshire, but his roots lay in the Anglo-Irish squirearchy of County Wexford. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
They lived like frugal members of the squirearchy in that corner of Greenwich, Connecticut, which, back in the forties, was still deep country. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
On the contrary, it is perhaps the one force that permanently prevents the creation of an aristocracy, in the manner of the English squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [G.K. Speaks - The Family and The Feud] Reference
So therewe are; the impoverished squirearchy can sleep sound tonight: the Labour partyis onlyinterested if you're nouveau riche - how gloriously snobby. From Wordnik.com. [The many faces of Ed Balls] Reference
These districts would return an unmixed squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [The English Constitution] Reference
England would be badly off without her squirearchy. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
Feudalism was very nearly the opposite of squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of England] Reference
Such was more or less the universal humor in the squirearchy of. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
But the baronage or squirearchy of the country were of another mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
There remain the throne and the squirearchy, and of these the throne is much the stouter. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
He was born in 1848 into the Gloucestershire squirearchy; his father owned the village of. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Sir Basil, know that it is in the squirearchy that some of the best blood in England is found. From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
I paid the fine, so there is one act of destruction the less on the heads of the English squirearchy. '. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
The genial atmosphere between the classes is made easier by there being only two: the squirearchy and the peasants. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
The ownership of the land is vested in a 'squirearchy,' so to speak, and only the proprietors have a right to sell or lease. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
He had been made to understand clearly that it would be better that he should not enter in upon his squirearchy early in life. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
I used to read long and happily in these as a boy, and early saw the falsehood of the conventional, feudal view of the English squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Dr. Burton seems, as a suspected Jacobite, to have been no special favourite with the Yorkshire squirearchy in general, but rather the reverse thereof. From Wordnik.com. [Sterne]
Gatherum Castle and entertained the neighbourhood, — the nobility and squirearchy dining there on one day, and the tenants and other farmers on another. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
He occupied, curiously enough, the house where Edmund Morton himself had lived, conducting his works on the one hand and the squirearchy of the parish on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
In Germany, they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty-bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [Manifesto of the Communist Party] Reference
Church-feeling indeed, is still strong, but the clergy have become thoroughly subservient, and during the century will be mere appendages to the nobility and squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
He is one of the Puritan squires; but he is steadily more of the squire and less of the Puritan; and he points to the process by which the squirearchy became at last merely pagan. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of England] Reference
Bacchanalian catches of a rude squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
"Often spoken of as the squirearchy," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
He had been the dread of the whole squirearchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
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