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