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Definition of Earls
1. earl [n] - See also: earl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earls
Literary usage of Earls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1838)
"munity, and invested with privileges in which the other earls did not participate;
but that the seven earls of the appeal, whose rights he proclaims, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"In peace the earls of Devon resided in their numerous castles and manors of the
west: their ample revenue was appropriated to devotion and hospitality: and ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"all such future attempts upon the part of the crown forever earls, impossible.
Whatever may have been their motives,3 the fact remains that Bigod and Bohun, ..."
4. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"On Monday morning, June 19, the three earls rode the few miles from ... On reaching
Blacklow hill, the three earls withdrew, though remaining near enough to ..."
5. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The earthworks at least the earls doubtless found ready to their hand, ...
The earls of the Red King's day had The earls learned to practise the special ..."
6. Geoffrey de Mandeville: A Study of the Anarchy by John Horace Round (1892)
"The two main propositions advanced by our historians on this subject are: (1)
that Stephen created many new earls, who were deposed by Henry II. on his ..."
7. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"Where once there had been petty kings or princes, there; earls took were in later
generations earls, owing some sort of allegiance . ..."
8. The Monthly Review (1831)
"A Selection from the Papers of the earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of the
Right Honorable Sir George Henry Rose, illustrative of Events from 1685 to ..."
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