How To Use seignior In A Sentence
- Moreover, it was not upon this relique which I then swore, but upon another fragment of the true cross which I got from the Grand Seignior, weakened in virtue, doubtless, by sojourning with infidels. Quentin Durward
- Hundred Associates shifted the obligation of settling the country by granting vast estates called seigniories along the St. Lawrence and leaving to these new lords of the soil the duty of bringing out habitants. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
- He says," announced the Swiss, "that he is cousin and agent of the seignior they call the patroon, and his name is Van Corlaer. The Lady of Fort St. John
- Be as churlish as you list -- I never quarrel with my customers -- my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as Jacques Butcher says to his lambs -- those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads. Quentin Durward
- The cens et rentes were unduly raised, the droit de banalite was pressed to the extent that if a habitant went to a better or more convenient mill than the seignior's, he had to pay tolls to both, the transfer of property was hampered by the lods el ventes and the droit de retraite, and the claim always made by the seigniors to the exclusive use of the streams running by or through the seigniories was a bar to the establishment of industrial enterprise. Lord Elgin
- (Extracting profits from the manufacturing of money is called seigniorage, after seigneur -- "lord" in French.) The New Coin Of The Realm
- He held the seigniory of Aubigny in France, to which his son succeeded in 1567.
- If it enters bilateral or multilateral agreements, there would be a likely cost of sharing seigniorage collected on the dollars circulating in the dollarized countries.
- Dollarized Latins would lose control over their own interest rates and be hit with hefty bills known as seigniorage, a kind of fee countries pay for using someone else's money. Dollars And Discontent
- There was one good thing in the Act. The power of commuting the seigniorial or feudal tenure into free and common soccage was given to the censitaire in transactions with the crown. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
