Crossword-Solution: SQUIREDOM 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Not, of course, that this consideration will ever afford one grain of comfort to the squires and the parsons of each successive epoch; for what _they_ want is not the reasonable betterment of the whole social organism, but the continuance of just this particular type of squiredom and parsonry.

The worthy captain, on giving up his lease, had sold his furniture; but we were very welcome to it as tenant for a year! "Are there no furnished houses in this neighbourhood, at all?" "No--e'es--may be you'll get in at the shippus,"--which, being Anglicized, is sheep-house; and away we toddled a mile and a half to the shippus--a nice old farm-house, with some pretensions to squiredom, and the inhabitants kind and civil as heart could wish.

But equally plainly there are squires, and squiredom has its point, of which I may as well make the most.

The hearty and vigorous tone of squiredom, young and old, could not understand it as a passion or a pursuit, and they mainly agreed that nothing but some strange perversion could have made the generous nature of old Barrington so fond of law.

Fortescue, a tall, powerfully-built specimen of English squiredom, shrugged his shoulders unseen by his wife.