liegeman
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Of a truth, if I could desire aught but your goodwill, in nowise could I hold you as the lady of my heart, nor myself as your liegeman.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
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
With the spring he set out, meaning vengeance; but he dissembled and rendered homage, and accepted the sword the lord gives his liegeman.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker
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
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
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
Ye are all the king's liegemen, and ye should keep good faith with him.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
Thereupon the king made war against his disobedient liegemen.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
There many a maid was dwelling for beauty wide renown'd, And one of these King Gunther, 'twas said, design'd to woo: Well pleas'd the monarch's purpose his knights and liegemen true.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
