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Example sentences for "baronet"

Lexicographically close words:
barometric; barometrical; baronage; barones; baronesses; baronetage; baronetcy; baronets; baronial; baronie
  1. He had gained great reputation in the East Indies, was chief in command at the taking of some of the islands, and, it was said, was to be created a baronet for his services.

  2. Her intended husband was a baronet of good family; but unfortunately, she caught a cold at the assize ball and went off in a decline.

  3. It had just lost one Red Head, its chief sachem; and first of all it behooved the baronet to condole their affliction.

  4. Their hostess knew nothing of the young baronet being in the neighbourhood, and was by no means gratified by the intelligence.

  5. The young baronet had meanwhile become very dear to the Major and his daughter.

  6. You are very discreet, Aurelia, as it becomes a young married lady, but have you no notion who this innamorata of the baronet may be?

  7. The young baronet has shown himself smitten with out pretty Aurelia, and has spoken of tarrying on his return to make farther acquaintance.

  8. When it was known that this Ferdinand Morringer was a real baronet and had been an officer in the Guards, you may guess how the flood of goldfields' talk rose and flowed and foamed all round him.

  9. I have not the honour to be Sir Ferdinand Morringer or any other baronet at present; but I assure you I feel the compliment intensely.

  10. The baronet sat near one of the windows, some books on a small table at his elbow.

  11. The baronet put aside his handkerchief and took up his hat to leave.

  12. The medical baronet whirled round the cord of his pince-nez and pushed out a protesting hand.

  13. It was a large and lofty room in which the young baronet found himself.

  14. The young baronet sank back in his chair, and his chin fell forwards upon his chest.

  15. Behold me now once more beneath the ancient, hospitable roof, the kind hostess smiling graciously, the genial baronet roaring with unrestrained mirth at the tale of our adventures--and Daisy?

  16. The baronet had his arm out of the sling for the first time, and this so raised his spirits that I felt sure Dick's six months' probation were already divided by two, at least.

  17. At these words the change that came over the baronet was so sudden and violent that I almost repented of having uttered them.

  18. Again the baronet seemed at a loss for a fitting answer; and from his expression I think he was on the point of revealing his identity, and sending me forthwith to the devil; but without a pause I hurried up the rest of my artillery.

  19. Then for quite a considerable period she lived in singleness, but, just before Gav was going to Eton, a Baronet had proposed to her.

  20. Of Gaveston the baronet was as fond as of the mother, perhaps fonder, and there had been long amazing holidays for the boy in his step-father’s house.

  21. In spite of Jack's good play, and the success on the part of my own countrymen, I could not but be sorry to think that the young baronet had come half round the world to be put out at the first ball.

  22. They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for.

  23. He had thought so much of the English baronet as to have been cowed and quenched by his grandeur.

  24. England will soon be no place for any man of my years," the Baronet answered bitterly.

  25. Tradition said that the second baronet had built a wing for each of his two sons.

  26. I am glad he is a younger son," the Baronet thought.

  27. The baronet was a proud man, and he bethought him that the drawing-rooms, seldom used and something neglected, were not in the state in which he would wish his enemy's wife to see them.

  28. As Vaughan spoke, half-a-dozen of his Tory supporters surrounded the baronet and bore him back out of danger.

  29. I have said," the baronet answered with cold decision, "that I do not know how you made, nor why you followed up your acquaintance with her.

  30. Apparently the baronet had seen him, for as White drove up a servant appeared to lead the mare to the stables.

  31. But the baronet was already tugging at the bell-rope.

  32. Before the baronet could utter the sneer which was on his lips, Mary interposed.

  33. It has availed me so far," the baronet retorted.

  34. Then the baronet pulled out his purse, quite trembling in the hurry of his politeness.

  35. In the courtyard I saw a little cart, with iron brakes underneath it, such as fastidious people use to deaden the jolting of the road; but few men under a lord or baronet would be so particular.

  36. The daughter of a baronet and a millionaire cannot go off with the half-brother of another baronet and escape that penalty.

  37. Anthony, his eldest, who succeeded him to his estate and was afterwards created a Baronet by King Charles II.

  38. I had no opportunity to tell the baronet what I had learned about Mrs. Lyons upon the evening before, for Dr.

  39. His ingenious mind instantly suggested a way by which the baronet could be done to death, and yet it would be hardly possible to bring home the guilt to the real murderer.

  40. Meanwhile we left Lestrade in possession of the house while Holmes and I went back with the baronet to Baskerville Hall.

  41. We were all rather afraid that after the sad death of Sir Charles the new baronet might refuse to live here.

  42. I remembered how the baronet had told me that he had handed his old wardrobe to Barrymore.

  43. The baronet and I were both upon our feet.

  44. The hound had kept upon the grassy border while the baronet had run down the path, so that no track but the man's was visible.

  45. Between us we soon supplied his wants, and then over a belated supper we explained to the baronet as much of our experience as it seemed desirable that he should know.

  46. Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played ecarte afterwards.

  47. Then the baronet gently opened his door and we set out in pursuit.

  48. The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.

  49. The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.

  50. The baronet himself told him about the family hound, and so prepared the way for his own death.

  51. The promise of adventure had always a fascination for me, and I was complimented by the words of Holmes and by the eagerness with which the baronet hailed me as a companion.

  52. We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural.

  53. He had a family of fourteen children, of whom five only survived him, Richard, the youngest, succeeding as second baronet and dying unmarried in 1694.

  54. The Abbey was the family seat of an opulent baronet in the neighbourhood, to whom Mr. Case had been agent.

  55. The baronet died suddenly, and his estate and title devolved to a younger brother, who was now just arrived in the country, and to whom Mr. Case was eager to pay his court, in hopes of obtaining his favour.

  56. Recognizing that he had said enough, and indeed pitying the old man so alone, the Baronet drew back a little.

  57. The English baronet yielded one other, a huge, heavy, old-fashioned weapon.

  58. You will think of the lad, sometimes," said the old Baronet to the girl.

  59. He told the Baronet that his son was somewhere on the field.

  60. Or Scot, or Statesman, Baronet or Quack; For what is due to him, whose constant view is Preventing private, or a public lues?

  61. Baronet have been, with the education of a curate?

  62. He asked to be released, but the baronet hesitated.

  63. The baronet made no reply, but the old gentleman was set at liberty, and a span of his horses was restored to him.

  64. He was created a baronet in the summer of 1769.

  65. The baronet had friends among the Loyalists in Albany, by whom he was timely informed of the intentions of Congress.

  66. He was often dandled on the knee of Sir William Johnson, and has a clear recollection of the appearance of the baronet and the circumstances of his death.

  67. There is no telling but Cavendish may be a baronet yet.

  68. But the baronet got married in his old days, and there is a little shaver in petticoats to cut Master George out.

  69. Speckport was proud to have him at its parties; for was he not to be a baronet some day?

  70. The descending road which connected the king's highway with the stronghold was so sinuous and precipitate that more than once the grim baronet who owned it had upset his automobile in trying to negotiate the dangerous curves.

  71. The only baronet in England whose occupation corresponds with this heraldic device is Sir George Newnes.

  72. Could the Tamworth baronet take this as a proof of decaying husbandry?

  73. If the right honourable Baronet will take the trouble to travel through any of the grain districts of the country, he will perceive at once how fallacious this argument is.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baronet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aristocrat; bachelor; banneret; baronet; caballero; cavalier; companion; count; gentleman; grandee; knight; laird; magnate; noble; nobleman; patrician; peer; squire; swell; thoroughbred