Meaning of baronet in English

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baronet

Was there perhaps a single, pivotal moment, deep in some ancestral pile, when a purple-faced baronet looked upon his vassal and experienced -- wildly, disconcertingly -- the first fizzings of human-to-human recognition?

The baronet has a stomach to fill and a back to cover the same as the costermonger.

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He has never told her that his eldest brother is a baronet.

The baronet lifted his hands to the light, and gazed at their crimson hue with wild, dilated eyes and ghastly face.

Once aroused, however, she threw on a dressing-gown, thrust her feet into slippers, and appeared before the baronet, with a pale, anxious, inquiring face.

All at once the lights were still, there was a deep exclamation in the baronet's voice, a wild chorus of feminine screams, then blank silence.

He recognized, or thought he recognized, the baronet, and came to a deadlock, with a stifled imprecation.

The baronet would leave the country, they both imagined, and her fate would remain forever a mystery.

It was odd how often people hesitated, as if seeking for words, when speaking of the late baronet.

The dying baronet had impressed upon his wife the necessity of following my guidance in all things.

Very distressing were the thoughts of the young baronet, who had so suddenly returned to his home and been stricken with illness.

The young baronet, of course, kept all this to himself.

The baronet, on looking round, saw the priest, and desired him to follow them to his study.

Be that as it may, the baronet fell, and a small man, of compact size and vigorous frame, was found aiding him to rise.

I perceive that a secret understanding respecting you exists between papa and that detestable baronet.

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