A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
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Examples for "liege"
Examples for "liege"
1My liege, this fragment was found beside the body deluged in gore.
2Know you, Baron Neufmarché is my liege lord, as William is his.
3The games are over, and Gunther, your liege lord, is the winner.
4And even your husband told me that Gunther was his liege lord.
5See, my liege, they are taking planks and ladders to the outwork.
1It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
2How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
3Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
4The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
5The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
1The king heard it well and feared him for his liegeman's life.
2Brunhild, in great anger, employed Hagan, liegeman of Gunther, to murder Siegfried.
3Hagen sorely wounded Hawart's liegeman with his sword through shield and breastplate.
4Dole enow it gave them, for no longer might Hawart's liegeman live.
5I, that am his true and loving liegeman, should be with him.'
1Each of us is like some feudatory prince, dependent upon an overlord.
2He was not twenty when the three feudatory princes broke into open rebellion.
3By far the greater number of the Indian feudatory chiefs are still under Brahman influence.
4The Jew, often acquiring wealth in commerce, might become valuable property of some feudatory lord.
5The horrified Gregory summoned every disaffected feudatory of the empire in effect to disown the emperor.
1You are my faithful liege subject, and I know that you love and obey me.
2Ishmael is my protégé, my liege subject.
3And he killeth thy deer and robbeth thine own liege subjects even upon the great highways.
4I will yield up, voluntarily, all right to command in the host-evenmine own liege subjects.
5To prove this, he summoned his liege subjects to attend a dance in honour of the event.
6Some of them beset the ship in their canoes, among whom was the Chinook chief Comcomly, and his liege subjects.
7To the liege subjects of Labour, the England of those days was a continent, and a mile a geographical degree.
8He felt like a monarch witnessing the murder of one of his liege subjects, and demanded, with some asperity, the meaning of the outrage.
9These fellows, who are ready to undertake any service, however criminal, for which they are paid, certainly do not deserve to be called liege subjects.
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