Sample Sentences for
Esquire
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  • The letter was addressed to Richard Thompson, Esquire, at his downtown law office.
    Esquire = title for a lawyer
  • Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.  (source)
    Esquire = a gentleman
  • You get messed up with reefer and the cops, honey, and you gonna know Esquires and Attorney-at-Laws.†  (source)
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  • Not for all the Esquire stories in the world.†  (source)
  • It was my own lawyer, Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie, Esq., who told them I was next door to an idiot.†  (source)
  • He bowed double, with the exaggerated courtesy which was expected of pages before they became esquires on their way to knighthood, and announced: "Sir Gawaine, Sir Gaheris, Sir Gareth."†  (source)
  • He'd eat in his tiny lab, sitting on a high stool, thumbing through the lastest issue of Esquire or one of the other magazines he subscribed to.†  (source)
  • Beneath the title, in a clean, fine hand, he had written, Authored by Christopher Wilde, Esq., & Illustrated by George Washington Black.†  (source)
  • They were followed by an officer bearing the civic mace, after whom came another carrying the city's sword; then several sergeants of the city guard, in their full accoutrements, and with badges on their sleeves; then the Garter King-at-arms, in his tabard; then several Knights of the Bath, each with a white lace on his sleeve; then their esquires; then the judges, in their robes of scarlet and coifs; then the Lord High Chancellor of England, in a robe of scarlet, open before, and purfled with minever; then a deputation of aldermen, in their scarlet cloaks; and then the heads of the different civic companies, in their robes of state.†  (source)
  • With five years to go before the 1968 election, an article by Gore Vidal in Esquire magazine's March issue picks him to win the Democratic nomination over Lyndon Johnson.†  (source)
  • Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield, Esq.  (source)
  • —you also, well-born and pious Esquires, who aspire to wear this holy Cross!†  (source)
  • Mr. F. Hill, florist and greengrocer (they soon discovered that there was money in asparagus; and asparagus led to other vegetables), had an air which stamped the business as classy; and in private life he was still Frederick Eynsford Hill, Esquire.†  (source)
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