liegeman
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Look at Arnold there: is there a more temperate, orderly, well-behaved liegeman in the world than the ranger?
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
The English king’s beasts were leopards in blazon, in ballad and chronicle, and in the mouths of liegeman and enemy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
Scott, the loyal cavalier, the king's true liegeman, the very best raconteur of his time, poured out with an endless generosity his store of old-world learning, kindness, and humour.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
So, too, the great Theron walked as the close companion of the Gothic king; and Cavall became the trusty servant and liegeman of King Arthur.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Ernest Gambier-Parry
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
To the kings and their liegemen forthwith the tidings ran, That come were foreign envoys.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
"I observed Kucsuk Pasha among your liegemen; I presume he came to take his leave?"
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
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
The same thus said to Kriemhild, "See how he stands to-day, Whom Etzel o'er his fellows hath rais'd to power and sway, V "He who from all has service, from liegemen and from land!
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
