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
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.
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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.
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.'
6
The king was an officer of that realm and a liegeman of God.
7
And I am your liegeman, and hold the land from you.
8
Wist he not well that he was my liegeman and serf?
9
Now the noble Kriemhild came with many a valiant liegeman.
10
In truth I shall ever mourn for King Etzel's liegeman.
11
She went to meet him to the door and greeted full kindly Etzel's liegeman.
12
Then a proud liegeman of Hrothgar's stepped forward and asked:
13
Over his shoulder Gunther's liegeman gazed for a comrade-at-arms, whom he then quickly won.
14
Fair Uta's sons, they had a liegeman, brave and true.
15
The king followed his liegeman Hagen in evil wise.
16
He guardeth this land and is liegeman unto Gelfrat.
