Example Sentences

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There are six Palfreys playing tennis, five of them girls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philippa is beautiful and cold; long ago she guessed that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But could he go on living at Grimworth—an object of ridicule, discarded by the Palfreys, after having revelled in the consciousness that he was an envied and prosperous confectioner? 

From Brother Jacob by Eliot, George

"The Great Horse" is the term used of animals for war or tournaments, in contradistinction to Palfreys, Coursers, Nags, and other common horses.

From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Howard, Clare

If there had been no other reason, sympathy with the Palfreys, that respectable family who had lived in the parish time out of mind, would have determined all well-to-do people to decline Freely’s goods. 

From Brother Jacob by Eliot, George