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It is the prerogative of a viscount or a baron to make a person feel small, and of a baronet to extinguish him.

Needless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.

A baronet scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art.

The Baronet made three hundred a year out of this coach, and got his sport out of it for nothing.

The baronet saw that Richard, half-fuddled, was ripe for any confidences that might aim at the destruction of his enemy.

The right honourable baronet prefaced his motion by a speech of two hours' duration.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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