liegeman
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He took an oath to serve him, as his liegeman true, In all that to a master from his man is due.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Wataru Sampei was a samurai, of samurai stock, and liegeman to his own old masters of Kai province.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
It is known to your Majesty that my son is your liegeman, and, if it please you, your kinsman also.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
I am not pleading for the murderer, but for my po' liegeman who knew no law of God or man higheh than what he mistakenly took to be his masteh's desiah.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
Why, I am George-a-Greene, True liegeman to my king, Who scorns that men of such esteem as these Should brook the braves of any traitorous squire.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
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
Thereupon the king made war against his disobedient liegemen.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
To this end I seek your advice; and not only so, but I further lay my commands upon you, as my faithful subjects, liegemen, and vassals, to help me in this enterprise.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
To the kings and their liegemen forthwith the tidings ran, That come were foreign envoys.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
I too am a warrior, and shall a sceptre sway, And I would fain bring all men perforce of me to say, That I both land and liegemen have nobly merited.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
