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How to use sir in a sentence

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With all due respect, sir, living by one's wits in the park suits me just fine.
In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table?
Nobody has any statutory power to appoint an executor or administrator of a will, except a testator, sir.
It is I, sir Trent, Knight of the round table, and protector of damsels in distress.
Yes, but, sir, the docks at Maput are undergoing a rolling programme of containerisation.
But what about the hair, sir, could you expand and amplify on the subject of your hair?
I respect my elders and always use sir or ma'am when addressing a stranger.
Your hatred of the poor is just bigotry, sir, however you try to dress it as righteous indignation.
Do you sir, agree with this punishment which would involve the admonishment of a member of your own party?
I know you higher-ups like to hide that sort of thing from us, but I can read you like a book, sir.
You will agree, sir, that these wretches behaved like men whose nephews and grand-nephews were condemned in perpetuity to remain as poor as their ancestors.
Wedding bells are in the air at Huntington Stadium after good sir knight Norris and fair maiden Rosemary Westmoreland recreated one of the happiest moments of their lives.
Never mind sir, the hit didn't damage any of your delicate equipment.
Please sir, keep a civil tongue in your head and behave like a gentleman.
Yes sir, he is safely ensconsed in the warmth of hearth and home.
Hamlet. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath?
When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
Morning sir, I'll be dropping off your lardy cakes before noon and give my good wishes to your good lady wife,' he'd say.
Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges.
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If it is a subordinate court, lawyers can use terms such as sir or any equivalent phrase in the regional language concerned.
On the back of the shirt, Coleg sir gar and Worthington's appear at the top.
That's Mr. Cordwainer and he'll busticate us for a lark, sir.
Let me assure you, sir, that I will, in the interests of APANUA, continue the ceaseless fight against senseless acronymity, initialese, indecipherable abbreviation.
You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder.
Well, sir, believe you me, I'll give that lassy as good a strapping as ever she got when she comes back.
Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
Yes sir, at one minute after midnight, that holiday was over, donezo, finished, and it was time for the tree to come down.
Well, sir, the idea growed and growed and by the late 1920's there was Knights of the White Magnolia lodges all over Texas and parts of Oklahoma.
Look not so near, with hope to understand, Out-cept, sir, you can read with the left hand.
Meanwhile, a force under Sir Thomas Troubridge had fought their way to the main square but could go no further.
We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
Simon Sainsbury and Sir Timothy Sainsbury, had made a donation that would enable the construction of the Sainsbury Wing.
Pennethorne's gallery was demolished for the next phase of building, a scheme by Sir John Taylor extending northwards of the main entrance.
This provided a new ground level entrance from Trafalgar Square, named in honour of Sir Paul Getty.
The idea of a National Gallery of British Art was first proposed in the 1820s by Sir John Leicester, Baron de Tabley.
In 1580 Drake purchased Buckland Abbey, a large manor house near Yelverton in Devon, via intermediaries from Sir Richard Greynvile.
Sir Nicholas Serota has been the director of the Tate since 1988, when he took over from Sir Alan Bowness.
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On 17 January 2017, it was announced that Maria Balshaw would replace Sir Nicholas Serota as director on 1 June.
In 1589, the year after defeating the Armada, Drake and Sir John Norreys were given three tasks.
A new generation is battling through, but there are still too many Sir Bufton Tuftons at the core of the Party organisation.
Additionally, the Sir Francis Drake Channel in the British Virgin Islands bears his name.
Diomed, who won the Derby Stakes in 1780, had a significant impact on American Thoroughbred breeding, mainly through his son Sir Archy.
One took place in 1823, in Long Island, New York, between Sir Henry and American Eclipse.
I am glad to have that comment, Sir. I think you have about called our number on that.
The owl came from the city crest, which itself was based on the crest of Sir John Saville, the first alderman of Leeds.
Sir Alex Ferguson has said that Elland Road has one of the most intimidating atmospheres in European football.
In the past ten years, statues of both Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson have been unveiled outside the stadium.
Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.
Sir William Gage was a Sussex landowner and Edwin Stead was a resident of Maidstone in Kent.
Sir Clive Woodward resigned on 2 September and Andy Robinson was appointed England head coach.
Many of the sport's greatest jockeys, most notably Sir Gordon Richards, have been British.
It was founded and is run by team owner Sir Frank Williams and automotive engineer Sir Patrick Head.
On 28 March 2009 Sir Richard Branson announced Virgin as a major sponsor for the team.
Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn.
All were members of the Church of England and all except Sir Henry Savile were clergy.
Lipton died in 1931, and English aviation industrialist Sir Thomas Sopwith bought the Shamrock V with the intent of preparing the next challenge.
My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.
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The programme saw him unite with fellow British legends Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the adventurer, and John Simpson, the BBC world affairs editor.
Ainslie figureheaded a British challenge for the Cup alongside Sir Keith Mills the team was named Team Origin.
The Tudor rose used on the chain in the portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated a Royalist uprising in Kent at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June.
Its main building, the Lanyon Building, was designed by the English architect, Sir Charles Lanyon.
The building has been named in honour of Sir Allen McClay, a major benefactor of Queen's University and of the Library.
On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major rejected the idea of a currency union, saying it would require the UK to underwrite Scottish debt.
Once again, Sir Henry Vane was the leading catalyst for the republican cause in opposition to force by the military.
In 1956, the British and French prime ministers, Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, discussed the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.
Famous artists from the city include the portrait painters Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay.
The wolf may be a tribute to the city's founder, Sir Arthur Chichester, and refer to his own coat of arms.
For my part, I declare, Sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
In framing the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, the House of Commons were unwilling to except Sir Henry Vane, Sir.
Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, to the south of the city centre, attracts thousands of visitors each year to its International Rose Garden.
Since September 2011, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor has been General Sir John McColl.
King Charles II did not keep the promise made to the house but executed the sentence of death on Sir Henry Vane the Younger.
Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.
Following Edward's return to England, the remaining leaders of the Scots resistance chose Sir Andrew Murray as Guardian.
The ban was revoked in 1681 by Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban against festivities on Saturday night.
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However, the plan was interrupted by the rebellion in 1608 of Sir Cahir O'Doherty of Inishowen, who captured and burned the town of Derry.
The brief rebellion was suppressed by Sir Richard Wingfield at the Battle of Kilmacrennan.
In 1607 Sir Randall MacDonnell settled 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim.
In 1820 another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal again bombarded Algiers.
Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland was a successful privateer against Spanish shipping in the Caribbean.
Despite reproaches for some of his excesses, he was generally protected by Sir Thomas Modyford, the governor of Jamaica.
Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
Coote, Broghill and Sir Maurice Eustace were initially the main political figures in the Restoration.
And first, Sir Thomas Wroth had his cue to go high, and feel the pulse of the House.
Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony.
Cromwell's paternal grandfather Sir Henry Williams was one of the two wealthiest landowners in Huntingdonshire.
I may ask you, then, cordially to thank Sir George Goldie for all that he has done for the Society.
This was from a poem Sir Walter Scott wrote in 1830, adapting a song which had referred to the town of Dundee.
Sir William Howe began a British counterattack, focussing on recapturing New York City.
Sir John Hawkins, considered the pioneer of the British slave trade, was the first to run the Triangular trade, making a profit at every stop.
It was introduced to the United Kingdom parliament by Sir William Dolben, an advocate for the abolition of slavery.
All three were united in opposing Sir Robert Filmer's defence of divine right and absolute monarchy.
The third group under Sir Herbert Samuel pressed for the parties in government to fight the election on separate platforms.
Samuel had lost his seat in the 1935 election and the leadership of the party fell to Sir Archibald Sinclair.
However, his repeated assaults on Acre were driven back by Ottoman and British forces under the command of Jezzar Pasha and Sir Sidney Smith.
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Sir William Jones and the Orientalists promoted Sanskrit, while Macaulay promoted the English language.
Sir Robert Grant directed his attention to establishing a systematic institution in Bombay for imparting medical knowledge to the natives.
A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.
In 1834 he was introduced to the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, by Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis Sykes.
Disraeli sent the successful expedition against Tewodros II of Ethiopia under Sir Robert Napier.
On 8 September 1879 Sir Louis Cavagnari, in charge of the mission in Kabul, was killed with his entire staff by rebelling Afghan soldiers.
The householders protested, and Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Bloodworth was summoned, who alone had the authority to override their wishes.
It was probably through Holder that Wren met Sir Charles Scarburgh whom Wren assisted in his anatomical studies.
The Lord Brouncker, Mr Boyle, Mr Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paule Neile, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Petty, Mr Ball, Mr Rooke, Mr Wren, Mr Hill.
Despite this, General Sir Charles Keightley, the commander of the invasion force, believed that air power alone was sufficient to defeat Egypt.
Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole.
Sir Morien Morgan led research into supersonic transport in 1948 that culminated in the Concorde passenger aircraft.
Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell were executed for treason.
The Turner Prize winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor is one of the most acclaimed contemporary British sculptors.
The Wallace Monument in Stirling contains artifiects believed to have belonged to Sir William Wallace, including the Wallace Sword.
Sir Isaac Newton's publication of the Principia Mathematica ushered in what is recognisable as modern physics.
Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert in 1924, the red telephone box features a prominent crown representing the British government.
Sir Henry Cole devised the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas time.
The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William.
Thatcher responded by demoting Howe and by listening more to her adviser Sir Alan Walters on economic matters.
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In November 1989 Thatcher was challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Sir Anthony Meyer.
On 26 June 2003, Thatcher's husband Sir Denis died of pancreatic cancer, and was cremated on 3 July.
Many Border ballads were collected by Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Following the decisive referendum result, Sir John Swan, in favour of independence, resigned as Premier of Bermuda.
One can imagine the devout Doylist wringing his hands over every fresh appearance of Sir Arthur in the character of an exponent of spiritualism.
Additionally, Jacobitism became the subject of romantic poetry and literature, notably the work of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
The connection to Manchester was delayed by Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory.
The leadership of the UUP and, subsequently, Northern Ireland, was taken by Sir James Craig.
Nelson's aunt, Alice Nelson was the wife of Reverend Robert Rolfe, Rector of Hilborough, Norfolk and grandmother of Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe.
On the latter occasion, Lords Hope, Rodger, Walker, and Mance, and Sir Christopher Rose, heard several cases.
On 11 April 2017 the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones, announced that the Royal Marines were to be restructured.
The current Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, is Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach.
Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment.
In the interim, rest assured that Mr. Atherstone is by no means your friend, for he was perpetually earwigging poor Sir Rowland.
Nelson joined Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's fleet at Yarmouth, from where they sailed for the Danish coast in March.
Henry Colley married Katherine Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
He rushed to sail on the same ship as the newly appointed British commander, Sir Redvers Buller.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where.
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The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.
Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back.
The most prominent Conservative choices were Sir George Young and Deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst.
Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
The decisions that led up to the Iraq war and its subsequent conduct are currently the subject of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry.
Sir Menzies Campbell subsequently won the contest, defeating Chris Huhne and Simon Hughes, among others, in a very controversial race.
Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
In 1591 a John Phillips published A Commemoration on the life and death of the right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton.
In 2016, Sir Geoffrey Vos succeeded Sir Terence as Chancellor on the latter's appointment as Master of the Rolls.
Its head is the President of the Family Division, currently Sir James Munby.
And as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.
The House, however, ruled that the recipient of the peerage, Sir James Parke, was not entitled thereby to sit as a Lord of Parliament.
The region can claim the world's first factory, Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill.
Beg your pardon, sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.
Members included Thomas Derby, Sir Piers Edgcumbe, Sir Richard Pollard and John Rowe.
Eliot, Ezra Pound and more recently British authors born abroad such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sir Salman Rushdie.
In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel.
Notable conductors include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Malcolm Sargent.
Around 1866, William Low and Sir John Hawkshaw promoted ideas, but apart from preliminary geological studies none were implemented.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was Britain's commander on the Western Front.
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The cathedral was eventually built to a simpler design by Sir Frederick Gibberd.
It is named in honour of Sir John Moores, one of the founders of the Littlewoods football pools and retail group, who was a major benefactor.
Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel Peveril of the Peak is partly set in Derbyshire.
In 1608 Sir Hugh Pollard was named as chief forester in a suit brought before the Court of Exchequer by his deputy William Pincombe.
The sculptor Sir William Goscombe John made many works for Welsh commissions, although he had settled in London.
Installed as chairman in 1980, Sir John Egan is credited for Jaguar's unprecedented prosperity immediately after privatisation.
In June 2009, RAF Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy suggested that the RAF fleet might only be 123 jets, instead of the 232 previously planned.
Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame, was born in the town.
The judges Sir Edward and Sir Roland Vaughan Williams were respectively Arthur's father and brother.
By 1651 the Royalist governor, Sir John Grenville, was using the islands as a base for privateering raids on Commonwealth and Dutch shipping.
Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy.
Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson.
It was founded by artist Sir William Blake Richmond, frustrated with the pall cast by coal smoke.
Sir John Herschel, son of the astronomer, from Kent, invented the term photography in 1839, meaning light writing.
It was chaired by Sir George Thomson and its original membership included Chadwick, along with Mark Oliphant, John Cockcroft and Philip Moon.
Graphene was discovered at the University of Manchester in 2004 under Prof Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov.
Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company.
The first world cup trophy played for in these tournaments, Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy has an interesting history of its own.
Come, sir, if he's been cursed to hell, why don't you bless him back again? What's the good of your blessings if they can't beat an Irish larrykin's curse?
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The deal was signed by Britain's representative to the EU, Sir Kim Darroch, and the Scottish government.
Limpeh always see those AH BENGS drive the CiBIC SiR around with their big spoiler and so many uglweee stickers.
While not a formal member of the Lunar Society, Sir Joseph Banks was active in it.
Jenner had sent the paper informally to Sir Joseph Banks, the Society's president, who asked Everard Home for his views.
The idea of the modern hovercraft is most often associated with a British mechanical engineer Sir Christopher Cockerell.
Among the reasons, Newton recalled that the idea had been discussed with Sir Christopher Wren previous to Hooke's 1679 letter.
After the war, they received firm backing from a Ministry of Transport committee led by James Callaghan and Sir Arthur Young.
Sir Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 proposed a series of five roads encircling the capital.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, was one of the principal figures of Antarctic exploration.
Neither Bevin nor the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Sir Thomas Phillips liked working with Beveridge as both found him conceited.
Now this is not the way to get a house in order. What this place needs is a real thorough old-fashioned cleaning. A lick and a promise won't do, no, sir!
Maltese leaders presented the island to Sir Alexander Ball, asking that the island become a British Dominion.
The lobus of Morgagni is a lobe at the base of the prostate, discovered by Morgagni, and since described by Sir Everard Home.
Historically, philosophical development in the country was dominated by Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Syed, Muhammad Asad, Maududi, and Mohammad Ali Johar.
The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry.
The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
Further rebuilding and restoration occurred in the 19th century under Sir George Gilbert Scott.
In May 1532, Sir Thomas More resigned the chancellorship and, in June, Fisher preached publicly against the divorce.
A fortnight later, his body was laid beside that of Sir Thomas More in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London.
Notable mathematicians include Sir William Rowan Hamilton, famous for work in classical mechanics and the invention of quaternions.
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Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration with Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others.
Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may have been made for each other, but they were also made to play Beethoven.
The current Chief Inspector is Amanda Spielman, who was appointed in January 2017 replacing Sir Michael Wilshaw.
One concerns Camelot, usually envisioned as a doomed utopia of chivalric virtue, undone by the fatal flaws of Arthur and Sir Lancelot.
Schlesinger, Jr, and famous lawyers such as Glanville Williams, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and Sir Edward Coke.
In 1894 Sir Henry Meux put a trench through the bank, which gave the first indication that the earthwork was built in two phases.
Wadham College, founded in 1610, was the undergraduate college of Sir Christopher Wren.
Sir Spencer Walpole, a historian of contemporary Britain and a senior government official, had not attended any university.
It was cast in bronze in 1902, 17 years after Thornycroft's death, by his son Sir John, who presented it to the London County Council.
The siege was renewed but the city could not hold out for long, and on 15 July surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax.
The original King's College London Chapel was designed by Sir Robert Smirke and was completed in 1831 as part of the King's building.
Sir Robert Smirke's design of King's was sympathetic to that of Somerset House which is situated adjacent to the Strand Campus.
The chapel houses the tomb of Thomas Guy, and is the resting place of English surgeon and anatomist Sir Astley Cooper.
Sir Christopher Geidt will succeed the Duke of Wellington as Chairman of Council from the beginning of the 2016 academic year.
King's principal, Sir Rick Trainor, deplored the behaviour, appealed to King's students to remain calm and called for no retaliation.
How can a senator, capable of doing honour to Sir Thomas Hanmer, be guilty of such ridiculous inconsistences?
Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.
During the 18th century Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Thomas Lawrence lived and worked in Bath.
When this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir John Byron, the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Parliament replaced Byron with a man of their own choosing, Sir John Conyers.
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In 1604, the ruinous castle was given to Sir Fulke Greville by King James I and was converted into a country house.
Greville was not in the castle at the time and the garrison was under the command of Sir Edward Peyto.
The Norman Gatehouse was turned into a private dwelling for Sir Henry Ponsonby.
The new Coventry Cathedral designed by Sir Basil Spence was consecrated in 1962 and adjoins the shell of the ancient church.
Sir James Holt suggests this was the inevitable result of superior French resources.
The culmination of Baroque architectural forms comes with Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Important for the adoption of the style in the early 19th century was Abbotsford House, the residence the novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott.
In the 1920s, a board of trustees was set up under the guidance of manager Sir Henry Buckland.
Below-stairs opinion of Sir John is not divided. He is a shifty indiwiddle.
The Lady of the Lake sends Lancelot to King Arthur's court where he becomes a knight at the behest of Sir Gawain.
Shortly after he recovers, he returns to Camelot after being found by Sir Percival and Sir Hector.
As noted above, Richard appears in connection with Robin Hood in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe.
He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors.
Cyborg scientist Kevin Warwick is also a Coventrian, as is Sir John Egan, industrialist and former Chief Executive of Jaguar Cars.
Sir Robert de Crull was the last to fill this position during Edward III's reign and would have the longest tenure in this position.
Guy was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton.
The King ordered Sir Thomas Knyvet to conduct a search of the cellars underneath Parliament, which he did in the early hours of 5 November.
Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, supervised the torture and obtained Fawkes's confession.
The jury found all the defendants guilty, and the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham found them guilty of high treason.
The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards.
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Presiding over the trial was Sir William Chapple, a senior and respected judge in his early sixties.
In particular, the execution of his former teacher Sir Simon de Burley was an insult not easily forgotten.
In 1678 the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was ascribed to her servants, and Titus Oates accused her of an intention to poison the king.
Sir Robert Cotton pasted a cutting from the Breviary of Margaret of York on folio 160 verso.
It was subsequently owned by Sir William Cecil and Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury.
By 1599 it was the possession of Sir Robert Cotton, who signed it on folio 12 recto.
Companion sketch of Sir Thomas Elyot by Holbein, Royal Collection, Windsor.
Sir Thomas More welcomed him to England and found him a series of commissions.
The tradition that Holbein's portrait flattered Anne derives from the testimony of Sir Anthony Browne.
His 1532 portrait of Sir Brian Tuke, for example, alludes to the sitter's poor health, comparing his sufferings to those of Job.
The Armada Jewel, given by Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Heneage and the Drake Pendant given to Sir Francis Drake are the best known examples.
Between the 13th and 15th centuries Magna Carta was reconfirmed 32 times according to Sir Edward Coke, and possibly as many as 45 times.
There is a very good story told of Sir Godfrey Kneller, in his character of a Justice of the peace.
In 1977 Sir Hugh Casson founded the Friends of the Royal Academy, a charity designed to provide financial support for the institution.
On 8 December 2011, Christopher Le Brun was elected president of the Royal Academy on the retirement of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.
Sir Edward Coke was a leader in using Magna Carta as a political tool during this period.
The most prized possession of the Academy's collection is Michelangelo's Taddei Tondo, left to the Academy by Sir George Beaumont.
He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century.
Sir William Blackstone published a critical edition of the 1215 Charter in 1759, and gave it the numbering system still used today.
Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some questions in his accidence.
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Wars of the Roses came into common use in the nineteenth century, after the publication in 1829 of Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott.
Many private antiquarians and book collectors, such as Sir Robert Cotton, used their own library classification systems.
Around two centuries later, Sir Philip Sidney greatly praised Troilus and Criseyde in his own Defence of Poesie.
Thynne represents his edition as a book sponsored by and supportive of the king who is praised in the preface by Sir Brian Tuke.
Chaucer uses the same meter throughout almost all of his tales, with the exception of Sir Thopas and his prose tales.
Two tales, Sir Topas and The Tale of Melibee are told by Chaucer himself, who is travelling with the pilgrims in his own story.
To present the historical background of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and associated poems is ultimately a quest to find the anonymous poet.
Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians upon the English while Sir Edmund Andros was Governor.
He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.
So too did the publisher Edward Blount, in the dedication of Hero and Leander to Sir Thomas Walsingham.
Born at Penshurst Place, Kent, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley.
Everyone was alarmed, including Sir Harry McGowan, not usually the most alarmable of men.
Later that year, he joined Sir John Norris in the Battle of Zutphen, fighting for the Protestant cause against the Spanish.
This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble and gallant character.
Sir Walter Scott, a leading novelist of the day, contributed one anonymously.
The city of Sidney, Ohio, in the United States and a street in Zutphen, Netherlands, have been named after Sir Philip.
The most important poets of this era include Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney.
The central figures of the Elizabethan canon are Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.
A few months later, Francis went abroad with Sir Amias Paulet, the English ambassador at Paris, while Anthony continued his studies at home.
Sir William's elder brother, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley, was not as steadfast.
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Hearing Sir Fred the Shred and the rest of them utter some hedged half-apologies has not made the public feel any warmer to the banksters.
Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by the Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.
Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.
Bacon disinherited her upon discovering her secret romantic relationship with Sir John Underhill.
Richard had come within a sword's length of Henry Tudor before being surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men and killed.
When Richard began his charge, Sir William Stanley intervened from the vicinity of Stoke Golding.
Northumberland, Stanley, Dorset, Sir Edward Woodville, and Richard with approximately 20,000 men took the town of Berwick almost immediately.
The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Woodville, to Sir William Haute.
The third, sculpted by Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, was erected in 1964 in Paine's birthplace, Thetford, England.
Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy.
Sir Timothy Shelley had at first agreed to support his grandson, Percy Florence, only if he were handed over to an appointed guardian.
Sir Timothy threatened to stop the allowance if any biography of the poet were published.
She also felt ostracised by those who, like Sir Timothy, still disapproved of her relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
She honoured her late husband's wish that his son attend public school, and, with Sir Timothy's grudging help, had him educated at Harrow.
Two days after Henry's coronation, he arrested his father's two most unpopular ministers, Sir Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley.
He wrote asking for more particulars about Shelley's income and began advising him to reconcile with Sir Timothy.
While not specifically mentioning Hobbes, he attacks Sir Robert Filmer who had the same definition.
Attended by 600 people, it was presided over by Sir Francis Burdett, who, like Cobbett, was a strong voice for parliamentary reform.
In alternative history, he contributed to the 1931 collection If It Had Happened Otherwise edited by Sir John Squire.
At the age of fourteen, Mill stayed a year in France with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham.

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