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"The magistrates didn't dare acquit Carlos," attorney Francis Villein said.

“Hob does not know anything about it Nobody can tell whether a hawk is fit to fly except the man who is carrying it “Hob is only a villein anyway,” added Kay, and began to undo the leash and swivel from the jesses.

Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector.

Not a villein, not a vagabond.

If a villein inherited enough strips of land to support his family, or if he was lucky enough to serve an honest and generous lord, he might live in relative comfort.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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