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When the last exam of the spring term is over, most well-esteemed university professors are likely to be already en route to the airport with their luggage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Himself, with his brother Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, were both suspected of being implicated in the rebellion of their uncle Humphrey Arundell, Governor of St. Michael's Mount, "a man well-esteemed for military services."

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

Mr. Eaton is a competent and well-esteemed critic.

From More Portmanteau Plays by Walker, Stuart

V.126 of a good respect: of good reputation, well-esteemed.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton

This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various