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How To Use fealty In A Sentence

• Nearly helpless, Harold was forced to swear an oath of fealty to William and to swear further that he would advocate William's cause in England.
• It has been the practice in Ipswich from antiquity that no tenant of tenements in the town held by free burgage do homage or fealty for them to the property's chief lord.
• Llwelyn was forced into a humiliating surrender that included relinquishing control over the eastern part of his territory and an acknowledgment of fealty paid to Edward I annually.
• The Anglo-Saxons used oaths not only to swear fealty to feudal lords, but also to ensure honesty during legal proceedings and transactions.
• In 920 Edmund had accepted Raegnald's fealty and thus acknowledged his status.
• And then all they that longed to the castle came to him, and did him homage and fealty, praying him that he would abide there still a little while to fordo that foul custom. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
• The Crusaders would remain for one year in the East to assist the new Emperor; any who remained thereafter would have to take an oath of fealty to him.
• Their fealty to their corporate owners at the expense of their constituents is appalling and should be apparent to voters, but teabaggers are a little dense — it may take some time for them to realize they have been screwed — after all, they get their news from Fox. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 28, 2010
• Osyth's long-delayed release of the woman has nothing to do with the length of the woman's punishment, but rather with the death of the scullion, Osyth's rival for the woman's fealty.
• The Vancouver Winter Games are history now except for that montage — — star-spangled, or maybe maple-leafed, depending on your Olympic fealty. Americans, Canadians carve indelible images