Cavalier Sentence Examples

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  • Virginia was neither cavalier nor roundhead, but both.

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  • His own use of evidence in the field of religion is, given his general insistence on its importance, remarkably cavalier.

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  • We have two Cavalier king Charles spaniels and 4 cats.

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  • The system which has seen cavalier disregard of immigration rules become the norm in the Home office.

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  • It's this sort of cavalier attitude that needs addressing, not inadvertent speeding.

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  • The cavalier attitude of France and Germany to the stability pact cannot have helped to convert the fairly puritanical Swedes to further continental entanglement.

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  • The term "cavalier" has been adopted from the French as a term in fortification for a work of great command constructed in the interior of a fort, bastion or other defence, so as to fire over the main parapet without interfering with the fire of the latter.

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  • From Sir Francis Howard, a cavalier colonel and a younger son of "bauld Willie," come the Howards of Corby Castle in Cumberland, a branch without a hereditary title.

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  • Some even served on HMS Cavalier or her sister ships.

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  • He is certainly no cavalier with facts, as his own work on Russia amply testifies.

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  • Some of the biggest movers include the Yorkie, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, French Bulldogs and Brussels Griffon.

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  • My Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is constantly lowering his bottom to the floor and then sniffing where he has been.

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  • The Cavachon is created by crossing a Bichon Frise with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

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  • Cavachons are a hybrid breed that's created by mating a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a Bichon Frise.

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  • Many of the shirts reflect a brilliant cavalier attitude that's accomplished by way of swiggly lines and large graphic prints.

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  • According to this site this type of boot was called the Cavalier and turning the top down was done when a man went into town.

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  • The word is also sometimes applied to a heavy timber fitted with iron spikes or projections to be thrown down upon besiegers, and to the large work known as a "cavalier."

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  • The Cavalier was declared at the time to be Andrew Newport, made Lord Newport in 1642.

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  • His elder brother was born in 1620 and the Cavalier gives 1608 as the date of his birth, so that the facts do not fit the dates.

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  • The second narrative is the famous history of Florida by the Inca, Garcilasso de la Vega, who obtained his information from a Spanish cavalier engaged in the enterprise; it was completed in 1591, first appeared at Lisbon in 1605 under the title of La Florida del Ynca, and has since passed through many editions in various languages.

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  • Presbyterianism constituted a dangerous encroachment on the royal prerogative; the national church and the cavalier party were indeed the natural supporters of the authority of the crown, but on the other hand they refused to countenance the dependence upon France; Roman Catholicism at that moment was the obvious medium of governing without parliaments, of French pensions and of reigning without trouble, and was naturally the faith of Charles's choice.

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  • Neither I nor the ABD has " a cavalier attitude " toward the Highway Code.

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  • Eager, or perhaps desperate to land that first client, we can be somewhat cavalier about our own safety.

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  • For some reason that triggered a rather cavalier attitude toward food for the rest of the day.

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  • He is, however, rather too cavalier about the power of speech to harm.

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  • Numerous bad practices were highlighted, including an apparently cavalier regard for the verification of ballot papers.

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  • A member of the old cavalier party, a confidential friend and correspondent of the despotic Lauderdale, he desired to strengthen the executive and the royal authority.

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  • A greater volume of fire can thus be obtained, but the great height of the cavalier makes it an easy target for a besieger's guns.

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  • With him were the Cavalier party, anxious to recover their - losses during the civil war.

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  • Baxter blamed both parties, but Worcestershire was a cavalier county, and a man in his position was, while the war continued, exposed to annoyance and danger in a place like Kidderminster.

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  • He had been five years a preacher when the Restoration put it in the power of the Cavalier gentlemen and clergymen all over the country to oppress the dissenters.

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  • Spain set up no claim to the region, and when Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, came down the river in 1682 from the French possessions to the north, he took possession in the name of France, which hereby gained her first title to the vast drainage basin of the Mississippi.

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  • The first was the Memoirs of a Cavalier, which Lord Chatham believed to be true history, and which William Lee considers the embodiment at least of authentic private memoirs.

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  • Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler - a roisterer or swaggering gallant.

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  • There were a great many ladies and some of Nicholas' Moscow acquaintances, but there were no men who could at all vie with the cavalier of St. George, the hussar remount officer, the good-natured and well-bred Count Rostov.

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  • Meanwhile the Cavalier party invented a system of heavily fining men who had been their opponents in the troubles.

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  • The castle was alternately Roundhead and Cavalier in the civil war.

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