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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

X Then bade his father Siegmund all his liegemen tell, With his dear friends to revel it would please him well.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

In triumph it bore them fleetly home; And the liegemen for years could tell How the old halls rung with "welcomes home" To Lord Hay and fair Claribel.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

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

Here she was in the midst of her own domains, surrounded by her liegemen and retainers, and able to be in constant touch with her artificers and workers, whatever their art or industry.

From Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens by Kemp-Welch, Alice