liegeman
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Every liegeman in the town must arm, mount, and ride this instant to Edinburgh.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
"Saxon," said he, addressing Oswald, "thou hast come, I understand, to make oath of fealty to me, and to swear in presence of myself and my chamberlain to be my faithful liegeman unto death."
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
Ru´diger, a wealthy Hun, liegeman of Etzel, sent to conduct Kriemhild to Hungary.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Wataru Sampei was a samurai, of samurai stock, and liegeman to his own old masters of Kai province.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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
II The King of Rhine apparel gave to his liegemen bold, To threescore and a thousand, as I have heard it told, Beside nine thousand yeomen, on mirth and revel bent.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Be wary," cried Dame Kriemhild: "to your good liegemen look; Fill shields with gold, to move them yon stranger to defy.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
In triumph it bore them fleetly home; And the liegemen for years could tell How the old halls rung with "welcomes home" To Lord Hay and fair Claribel.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
Never heard I of heroes more hardy in war, 40 Of sixty who strove more strongly or bravely, Of swains who repaid their sweet mead better Than his loyal liegemen to their loved Hnæf.
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
