Use earl in a sentence
Sentences starting with earl
- Earl of Onston--is that it? [5]
Sentences ending with earl
- He was a younger son of an impoverished earl. [9]
- I'll materialise him--I will, on my honor--and I'd do it were he a thousand heirs jammed into one and stretching in a solid rank from here to the stolen estates of Rossmore, and barring the road forever to the rightful earl! [5]
- Am I to understand that you don't blame an earl for being and remaining an earl? [5]
- My father honestly thinks he is an earl. [5]
- It will serve thee no better than it served the late Earl. [11]
- The conductor of the 4.33 express was a duke; there wasn't a passenger conductor on the line below the degree of earl. [5]
- Manners is to take her home when she is grown, to marry her to an earl. [9]
- Now his father is--er--well, I reckon his father--" "My father is an English earl! [5]
- I believe he is the rightful earl. [5]
- He is an Earl. [11]
Sentences containing earl two or more times
- You came to see the Earl of Eglington then; you come to see the Earl of Eglington again-- after fifteen years! [11]
- The Earl of Rosworme was sent to assist the Archduke Ferdinand, who was besieging Caniza; the Earl of Meldritch, with six thousand men, was sent to assist Georgio Busca against the Transylvanians; and the Duc de Mercoeur set out for France to raise new forces. [4]
- Now, an earl must do what an earl has always done. [4]
- The Earl of Chisholm was dead, and John Lyon was Earl of Chisholm. [4]
- If you loved an earl he would stay an earl. [4]
- Years before, in a quarrel between the Earl of Lindsey and Lord Rippingdale, upon a public matter which Parliament settled afterwards, he had sided with the Earl of Lindsey. [11]
More example sentences with the word earl in them
- Will it please your royal highness to dismiss all that attend you here, save my lord the Earl of Hertford? [5]
- And the man with us--that might interest you more, Mrs. Laflamme, was Mr. Lyon, who will be the Earl of Chisholm. [4]
- Smith himself continued with the imperial party, in the regiment of Earl Meldritch. [4]
- Hugh deserted his wife and went over to the continent, where he presently died; and by-and-by the Earl of Kent married his relict. [5]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
- Among the places which I saw in my first visit was Longford Castle, the seat of the Earl of Radnor. [6]
- The earl and Washington started on the sorrowful errand, talking as they walked. [5]
- Sir Thomas Gorges was the builder of Longford Castle, now the seat of the Earl of Radnor, whose family name is Bouverie. [6]
- The favourite himself was attended by the Earl of Ealing, a youngster who had his spurs to win, who thought it policy to serve the great time-server. [11]
- The Earl of Warwick and the English Cardinal (Winchester) hurried to the castle and sent messengers flying for physicians. [5]
- Beginning with the usual formality, he said: "I am obliged to differ from nearly every sentiment expressed by the Earl of Eglington, the member for Levizes, who has just taken his seat. [11]
- The earl put us up and sold us at auction. [5]
- He did not treat himself like an earl, whatever consciousness he may have had that his prospective rank made it safe for him to flirt with the various forms of equality abroad in this generation. [4]
- The deference paid to these two men is not so very far short of that which is paid to an earl in England, though the method of it differs. [5]
- It was addressed to the late Earl, and was open. [11]
- Waring Willett, Chaplain to the Earl of Dunmore, the Rev. [6]
- Is the prince to tarry uninstalled, because, forsooth, the realm lacketh an Earl Marshal free of treasonable taint to invest him with his honours? [5]
- Then I came to see the Earl of Eglington. [11]
- Do you mean to say that if he was all right and proper otherwise you'd be indifferent about the earl part of the business? [5]
- She motioned all to rise, and with a hand upon the arm of the Duke's Daughter, said to Leicester: "What brings the Earl of Leicester here? [11]
- The earl said to himself, "This spectre can eat apples, apparently. [5]
- Enclosed here is thy pardon, sent by the good Earl Fitzwilliam last night. [11]
- It was during this last effort of Sigismund to regain his position that the Earl of Meldritch, accompanied by Smith, went to Transylvania, with the intention of assisting Georgio Busca, who was the commander of the Emperor's party. [4]
- At that moment there came a knocking at the door, then it was thrown open, and there stepped inside the Earl of Leicester, preceded by a page bearing a torch. [11]
- We talked of the people we had known there, or had casually met; and G. said: "Do you remember my introducing you to an earl--the Earl of C.? [5]
- About this time the old earl dropped in for a chat with the artist, and invited him to stay to dinner. [5]
- In this strait, the ingenious John Smith, who was present in the reconnoitering army in the regiment of the Earl of Meldritch, came to the aid of Baron Kisell, the general of artillery, with a plan of communication with the besieged garrison. [4]
- Upon the instant the great Earl was incensed out of all proportion to the affront of the Seigneur's existence. [11]
- Now then," said the earl, with the light of triumph in his eye, "the inexorable logic of the situation narrows us down to this: our feeling has its source in the money-loss involved. [5]
- Can you have that without the social traditions," she appealed to the earl, "such as you have in England? [4]
- He said that that was of no consequence, the Earl had no formalities for him or his friends. [5]
- It is plain that the Usurping Earl there has a great deal of character and a long face like a horse's, whereas his heir here is smirky, moon-faced and characterless. [5]
- You perceive now, that the facts in this case bring us to precisely this result: morally the American tramp is rightful earl of Rossmore; legally he has no more right than his dog. [5]
- These people--I suppose that if two castaways landed naked on a desert island, one of them would instantly be the ancien regime--had spoken of Mrs. Henderson and her ambition to the Earl of Chisholm in a way that pained him. [4]
- The object of that expedition, as is well known, was to obtain the person of the Earl of Selkirk, in order to bring about the rescue of the unfortunate Americans suffering in British prisons. [9]
- The Earl of Suffolk was hemmed in and surrounded, and the Duke d'Alencon and the Bastard of Orleans demanded that he surrender himself. [5]
- It was some such feeling that impelled the earl to wish to see again Miss Forsythe, and perhaps to talk of Margaret, but he certainly had no thought that there were two Margaret Debrees in America. [4]
- Our hero then sought out the Earl of Ployer, who had been brought up in England during the French wars, by whom he was refurnished better than ever. [4]
- I am the son of Lemuel Fawe, the husband of Fleda, daughter of Gabriel Druse, King and Duke and Earl of all the Romanys; and I come for my own. [11]
- In the first skirmishes the Earl Meldritch was very nearly cut off, although he made "his valour shine more bright than his armour, which seemed then painted with Turkish blood. [4]
- I take the simple words addressed by the earl to Margaret, when he said good-night, at their full value. [4]
- But finding Prince Sigismund in possession of the most territory and of the hearts of the people, the earl thought it best to assist the prince against the Turk, rather than Busca against the prince. [4]
- Sheriff--Latin term for 'shrub,' we called broom, worn by the first earl of Enjue, as an emblem of humility when they went to the pilgrimage, and from this their hairs took their crest and surname. [5]
- That the earl should wish to come to America again without hope or expectation was, however, quite human nature. [4]
- Do you know"--and she turned upon the earl a look of the old playfulness--"she doesn't quite approve of me. [4]
- Of the earl she had literally nothing to say, except that he was very kind, and that his family received them with the most engaging and simple cordiality. [4]
- Presently the earl said: "Don't you reckon he's afraid we are a sheriff with a requisition? [5]
- America, the earl said, interested him more and more. [4]
- Well, the Earl promised to lay your case before the King himself, and to speak for you with good eager entreaty. [11]
- It is quite possible that when the Earl of Chisholm said good-by, with an air of finality, Margaret felt that another part of her life was closed. [4]
- Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. [5]
- But the circumstances of the present case--I being a democrat by birth and preference, and an aristocrat by inheritance and relish--" The earl stopped suddenly, his frame stiffened, and he began to stare speechless through the curtainless window. [5]
- The last Earl of the line fell in the wars of the Commonwealth fighting for the King, and the odd privilege ended with him. [5]
- A further verification of the feasibility of this route was made by Captain George Weymouth, who was sent out in 1605 by the Earl of Southampton. [4]
- Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, within an easy drive's distance from Salisbury, was the first nobleman's residence I saw in my early visit. [6]
- If you spoke of the duke, or the earl, or the bishop, how could anybody tell which one you meant? [5]
- In the court of the castle we found the Earl of Warwick and fifty English waiting, impatient for news. [5]
- Pile after pile of papers and letters of the late Earl and his Countess had passed through her hands from chaos to order. [11]
- When the Earl of Chisholm was in this country it was four years after Margaret's marriage--we naturally saw a great deal of him. [4]
- Did you think my leech would not serve me as fair as he would serve the Earl of Leicester? [11]
- With assurance of my distinguished consideration and warm cousinly regard, I remain Your titular lordship's Most obedient servant, Mulberry Sellers Earl Rossmore. [5]
- But the Earl Moyses, seeing no prospect of regaining his patrimony, and determining not to be under subjection to the Germans, led his troops against Busca, was defeated, and fled to join the Turks. [4]
- You are no more the Earl of Eglington than me. [11]
- It must be mentioned that Transylvania, which the Earl of Meldritch, accompanied by Captain Smith, set out to relieve, had long been in a disturbed condition, owing to internal dissensions, of which the Turks took advantage. [4]
- Seeing the royal memory so improved, the Earl ventured to apply a few tests to it, in an apparently casual way, to find out how far its amendment had progressed. [5]
- The Earl of Meldritch, having occupied the town, repaired the walls and the ruins of this famous city that had been in the possession of the Turks for some threescore years. [4]
- And she had married the Earl of Eglington! [11]
- He had once lost a possible fortune by spurning a little terrier of the daughter of the Earl of Shallow, and the lesson had sunk deep into his mind. [11]
- The Earl of Leicester, very soon after the death of Orange, was appointed governor of the provinces, and the alliance between the two countries almost amounted to a political union. [6]
- The earl asked leave of the prince to make an attempt to regain his paternal estate. [4]
- He was at large expense in fitting out the Ranger, and he bought back at twice what it was worth the plate taken from St. Mary's Isle, getting but a tardy recognition from the Earl of Selkirk for such a noble and unheard-of action. [9]
- Locke, whose medical knowledge is borne witness to by Sydenham, had the good fortune to form a correct opinion on a disease from which the Earl of Shaftesbury was suffering, which led to an operation that saved his life. [3]
- The earl has just been giving me a whirl in the ballroom, and I've been trying to make him understand about democracy. [4]
- The earl read it; then he sternly said, "Sir, do you call this wealth?--but doubtless you do in your inflated country. [5]
- We infer that it was this pass that the earl captured by a stratagem, and carrying his army through it, began the siege of Regall in the plain. [4]
- His first-born son is Earl of Eglington, and has been so these years past; and you, nor his second-best lordship there, nor all the courts in England can alter that. [11]
- He would have insisted, but his 'uncle' the Earl of Hertford whispered in his ear-- "Prithee, insist not, my lord; it is not meet that they sit in thy presence. [5]
- Buonespoir was now in close confinement, by secret orders of Leicester, and not allowed to walk abroad; and thus with no friend save her father, now so much under the influence of the Earl, she was bitterly solitary. [11]
- But, as the human brain is prone to error, and there are men in the street, the Duke miscalculates; the Earl of Haines miscalculates, too. [9]
- That is what his father was, the last Earl, and that is what he is who left my door but now. [11]
- I never saw him, but you can easily see the resemblance to his father," said Sellers, holding up the chromo and glancing from it to the chromo misrepresenting the Usurping Earl and back again with an approving eye. [5]
- The first thing he did in Australia was to get into the lockup, and the next thing he did was to proclaim himself an earl in the police court in the morning and fail to prove it. [5]
- He fell on Hawkins's neck sobbing, and said: "Oh, mourn with me my friend, mourn for my desolate house: death has smitten my last kinsman and I am Earl of Rossmore--congratulate me! [5]
- Next afternoon, while Hawkins, by request, draped Andrew Jackson's portrait with crape, the rightful earl, wrote off the family bereavement to the usurper in England--a letter which we have already read. [5]
- The soldiers would have killed him, but the Earl of Warwick saved his life. [5]
- If the Earl has blandished Martha, he is the very captain of deceit. [11]
- The noble Earl has bidden us to be consistent and reasonable. [11]
- It would be hard to find a better portrait of a hunting squire than that which the Earl of Shaftesbury has the credit of having drawn of this very peculiar personage. [6]
- The late Earl had married secretly, but he had been duly married, and he did not marry again until Mercy Claridge was dead. [11]
- If the earl had had wit enough to-- However, there is no occasion for my working my sympathies up on his account. [5]
- Who but the great Mr. Pitt, then the Earl of Chatham, whose wise policy had made Britain the ruler of the world, and rich beyond compare. [9]
- She would have gone in the early scrabbling days for much less than an earl, and been vain of it, and glad to show off before the remains of the Scotch kin. [5]
- Here, in days gone by, when Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, first drew the eyes of his Queen upon him, Elizabeth came to listen to his vows of allegiance, which swam in floods of passionate devotion to her person. [11]
- They were no friends of the King, nor of the Earl of Lindsey, nor of my Lord Rippingdale, for the draining of these fens took from them their means of living. [11]
- Late in the forenoon he was in a large audience-chamber, conversing with the Earl of Hertford and dully awaiting the striking of the hour appointed for a visit of ceremony from a considerable number of great officials and courtiers. [5]
- Also learn, that for a higher service, in that he saved his sovereign stripes and shame, taking these upon himself, he is a peer of England, Earl of Kent, and shall have gold and lands meet for the dignity. [5]
- Only the bare essential things that concerned him remained: David Claridge was the Earl of Eglington, this man before him knew, Luke Claridge knew; and there was one thing yet to know! [11]
- If, in the end, the "second-best lordship" failed to do his part, hid the truth from the world, refused to do right by his half-brother, the true Earl, then would be time to act again. [11]
- The Earl of Eglington voted in its favour. [11]
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