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In the same year, Dennis Fernandes of Lisbon, an esquire to the king, entered upon these discoveries, more to acquire fame than for profit.

'Nicodemus Boffin, Esquire. My Dear Sir, Having consented to preside at the forthcoming Annual Dinner of the Family Party Fund, and feeling deeply impressed with the immense usefulness of that noble Institution and the great importance of its being supported by a List of Stewards that shall prove to the public the interest taken in it by popular and distinguished men, I have undertaken to ask you to become a Steward on that occasion.

'What game's up? demanded Fledgeby, as slowly as before, and more sternly. OUR game. Read that. Fledgeby took a note from his extended hand and read it aloud. 'Alfred Lammle, Esquire. Sir: Allow Mrs Podsnap and myself to express our united sense of the polite attentions of Mrs Alfred Lammle and yourself towards our daughter, Georgiana.

Thomas Candish, or Cavendish, of Trimley, in the county of Suffolk, Esquire, was a gentleman of an honourable family and large estate, which lay in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, then a place of very considerable trade.

"Ye know him as I mean?" "Yes," said Edwin, "The stout man. The Cocknage Gardens man." "That's him. Well ye'll tell him I've been called away. Tell him who ye are. Not but what he'll know. Tell him I think it might be better" Darius's thick finger ran along a line of print "if we put `widow of the late Simon Loggerheads Esquire, instead of `Esq. See? Otherwise it's all right.

Other old games of which we know only the names were 'Hoop and Hide, 'Harry Racket, 'Hoodwink Play, 'Loggats, and 'Stooleballe, which was like our cricket. These were all very much liked in the days about the time that Edward's sister Elizabeth married Henry VII. and became Queen. When a boy grew older he ceased to be a page, and became an esquire.

Thus ends Fraser's narrative of the two sieges of Quebec. He served in the third siege, that of 1775-76, and was still alive in 1812-15 to give counsel when Quebec was again menaced by the Americans. By the Honourable James Murray, Esquire, Governor of Quebec, &c.

Somebody cheated me out of it next day; and my new pair of breeches, just sent home, cracking at first putting on, I exclaimed, in my wrath, "All tailors are cheats, and all men are tailors." Then I was better. Emma Isola, Lamb's ward, daughter of one of the Esquire Bedells of Cambridge University, and granddaughter of an Italian refugee.

Prince Henry was a very precocious youth, and had the management of great affairs when he was but a child, and when it would have been better for his soul's and his body's health, had he been engaged in acting as an esquire of some good knight, and subjected to rigid discipline.

Money orders to be made payable to Cruden Reginald, Esquire, Secretary, 13, Shy Street, Liverpool." "Hullo!" said Reginald, looking up excitedly, "don't fold up any more of those, boy. They've made a mistake in my name and called me Cruden Reginald instead of Reginald Cruden. It will have to be altered." "Oh, ah.

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