How To Use Liege lord In A Sentence
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I am well content with my estates, and need no foot of English land, no share in English spoil I must fight for my liege lord as long as fighting goes on, but that over I hope to return here and live in peace.
Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest
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When she is forcibly enchanted by a man she is tailing for her faerie liege lord, she not only loses fourteen years of her life to being a fish, she loses everything she worked for in the human world, including her family.
Rosemary and Rue: A Knight in Shining…Satin? « A Working Title
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Whereupon Salih arose and, kissing the ground a second time, said, “O King of the Age, my errand is to Allah and the magnanimous liege lord and the valiant lion, the report of whose good qualities the caravans far and near have dispread and whose renown for benefits and beneficence and clemency and graciousness and liberality to all climes and countries hath sped.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him.
Arabian nights. English
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These oath-takings are critical to Tolkien's mythologising of the past because they reproduce the feudal bonds that a vassal pays to his liege lord.
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The sulky dogs would rather have three twists of a rack, or the thumbikins for an hour, than pay out a denier for their own feudal father and liege lord.
The White Company
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I admit your victory, acknowledge your authority as my King and liege lord.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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one's liege lord
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Master, how is my liege lord the retired Emperor today?
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The army of our liege lord is now in the Lothians, passing through them under the appellation of succors for the regent from the Hebrides!
The Scottish Chiefs
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I myself think that Americans should recognize the Queen as their rightful liege lord and rejoin the British Commonwealth!
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In the Roman successor states of western Europe, the feudal system contained a hint of servility in the act of homage that liege lords found it unwise to presume upon.
