liegeman
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Perhaps you are not aware that I am lord of the manor to you, and that you are my liegeman.
From Pine Needles by Susan Warner
Then, looking o'er his shoulder, King Gunther's liegeman eyed The crowd to find a comrade, whom in a trice he spied.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
It is the tale of most men that Kjartan on the day he laid aside his white baptismal-robes became a liegeman of the king's, he and Bolli both.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
Since sure of me thy liegeman once in thrall Thou need'st not waste on me those gracious looks.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
As lord of such a liegeman was Gunther valued high.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Philosophy complained that it had to trudge afoot while the liegemen of Justinian rode high in the car of preferment.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith
Under the feudal system the term of service in the field for the liegemen of the Emperor had been forty days; but that time was too short for an effective campaign.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Ye are now Children of the Great Bear," he said, "and comrades and liegemen to me, Arthur, who shall be King of the West.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
Thereupon the king made war against his disobedient liegemen.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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