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    vassal


    1. She owed her afterlife to the Warlord, but that didn’t mean she was his vassal, far from it


    2. It is not thirty years ago since Mr Cameron of Lochiel, a gentleman of Lochaber in Scotland, without any legal warrant whatever, not being what was then called a lord of regality, nor even a tenant in chief, but a vassal of the Duke of Argyll, and with out being so much as a justice of peace, used, notwithstanding, to exercise the highest criminal jurisdictions over his own people


    3. The heir of every immediate vassal of the crown paid a certain duty, generally a year's rent, upon receiving the investiture of the estate


    4. By a feudal law, the vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior, who generally extorted a fine or composition on granting it


    5. Once Science weds itself to the State, it ceases to be properly called a Natural Science but a ―Political‖ Science, rather; a vassal to its political agenda


    6. Then, following that, there were the competitions as the European vassal provinces (the former barbarians) vied for preeminence after the final fall of Rome


    7. creating vassal states that paid tribute to the capitol Tenochtitlan, later to become Mexico City


    8. “Members of The Assembly of the Just Alliance, acting only in my capacity as Lord of Serminak, and not as Prince of Hilia or as Key to The Just Alliance, I ask that the Sylvan people be recognized as my vassal; The Sylvan Nation, and that those dragons who choose to remain in Serminak be recognized as my vassal nation; Serminaki Draconia, and that those two nations be granted entry with full standing into The Just Alliance


    9. ‘I reckon their suffering would be nothing compared to the misery of being a Mage’s Vassal


    10. Ishbel was spared the need to respond by the arrival of a Vassal with new robes

    11. One is always a Freemen, this year the Empress, the other a Vassal, the Emperor


    12. ‘And then we’ll continue building more and more Oases until we’ve covered the planet in Vassal states,’ Peteru enthused with barely a hint of irony


    13. ‘If you read the briefings instead of screwing every male Vassal you can lay your scrawny claws on, you’d know that as part of the experiment to create super inventive scientists we decided to waive the mind-bending in case that was affecting imagination and creativity


    14. Although each Vassal was allocated a cell, there was nothing personal in them, merely a bed a chair and a hook on which to hang their work overall


    15. Nowhere in either the Vassal or Freemen apartment modules did they see an enforcer


    16. While the attitudes towards the two inventors of both Freemen technicians and Vassal assistants had warmed appreciably, that of the Aristocrats had hardened


    17. The gold disc allowed access to the negrav chute that ascended directly to the royal suite where a Vassal conducted them to a large, impressively furnished reception room


    18. She hates me because I’m a Vassal


    19. In the interests of a happy resolution to the Emperor’s speech at the unveiling of NumbaCruncha, I need the Vassal Philo sent to the royal apartments immediately


    20. Melvyn disconnected, and three minutes later a servant shoved into the room an extremely nervous, rather ordinary looking Vassal of about the same age as the Emperor, dressed in stained overalls

    21. Every Vassal and Freemen dresses the same, works long hours, is fed a minimum balanced diet and shares ablutions, so they don’t have the opportunity to consume more than what’s required to keep them alive


    22. The Vassal who had been spared uncoiled a hose from a cupboard and sluiced them down with delicious warm water, then provided them with soft towels


    23. 'Is the dog that licks up the offal in the temple yard the vassal of the god?' returned the Master


    24. How is that a way to spend your life, being a vassal of the state in charge of administering violence


    25. equipment, often designed by prisoners of war and enscripts from vassal kingdoms


    26. more than happy to rule the world, but to do so as the vassal of the Warlock was not so


    27. Russia, in contrast, once a vassal state


    28. is only our vassal and has direct control over its own territory


    29. For if the individual wants to live in a particular neighborhood, they are informed almost as an after thought in many cases once the real estate transaction is completed that they must render homage as a vassal unto his feudal lord if they desire to remain in their newly procured domicile


    30. From that minute on every move the vassal

    31. This cultural and legal precedent changed the hierarchical system of France from a Nation of impoverished vassal peasants with a King who openly sneered at his subjects: into a Nation of independent, educated, affluent shopkeepers, who if they did not like their President, were not afraid to show it


    32. If the rulers did not like what had been written about him, then they simply killed the writer, threw the Book into the garbage, hired or ordered some other vassal to write a better version of propaganda


    33. And their rulers had an automatic rational excuse, if their chosen vassal did not succeed as expected


    34. Some greedy power-hungry vassal seeking to gain favour with his lord by killing someone to prove his fucking loyalty


    35. The vassal to obey the Liege Lord, and the Lord to take care of and rule the vassal wisely and justly: out of pure self-preservation and self-interest: so he would not be murdered in his bed… which was often the case


    36. Because you have already given away your own spirituality and spiritual authority to them, and you have become a spiritual peasant, a spiritual vassal under their spiritual hierarchy and tokenism


    37. Serbia would have been swallowed up into the Russian Empire and that would have become a vassal state and the Serbian Slavs would have discovered to their horror that becoming true Slaves under the Tsarist regime of the Russian Tsar was a thousand times worse than when they had not been independent and given ‘aid’ by the most backward, inept, decayed empire in the world


    38. The Vatican and its vassal nations and colonies have continued that tradition under the


    39. He was deeply in love with a peasant girl, a vassal of his father's, the daughter of wealthy parents, and herself so beautiful, modest, discreet, and virtuous, that no one who knew her was able to decide in which of these respects she was most highly gifted or most excelled


    40. I am your vassal, but I am not your slave; your nobility neither has nor should have any right to dishonour or degrade my humble birth; and low-born peasant as I am, I have my self-respect as much as you, a lord and gentleman: with me your violence will be to no purpose, your wealth will have no weight, your words will have no power to deceive me, nor your sighs or tears to soften me: were I to see any of the things I speak of in him whom my parents gave me as a husband, his will should be mine, and mine should be bounded by his; and my honour being preserved even though my inclinations were not would willingly yield him what you, senor, would now obtain by force; and this I say lest you should suppose that any but my lawful husband shall ever win anything of me

    41. And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of the hall, and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, that he accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed six days thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, and for arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and full armour, with all the other accessories, without trickery, guile, or charms of any sort, and examined and passed by the judges of the field


    42. The duke and duchess resolved that the challenge Don Quixote had, for the reason already mentioned, given their vassal, should be proceeded with; and as the young man was in Flanders, whither he had fled to escape having Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute for him a Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully


    43. "Alas," said Sancho, "what unexpected accidents happen at every step to those who live in this miserable world! Who would have said that one who saw himself yesterday sitting on a throne, governor of an island, giving orders to his servants and his vassals, would see himself to-day buried in a pit without a soul to help him, or servant or vassal to come to his relief? Here must we perish with hunger, my ass and myself, if indeed we don't die first, he of his bruises and injuries, and I of grief and sorrow


    44. Thirsk didn’t especially like admitting that even to himself, since he was Rahnyld’s sworn vassal and a man who took his oaths seriously


    45. him, whatever Bulstrode might have felt on the subject: he did not intend to be a vassal of Bulstrode's


    46. Fina glared, but recounted a recent holiday up-country with her father at his vassal barony of Lago Bravo


    47. He too worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun!—Oh that these too-favouring eyes should see these too-favouring sights


    48. Spain boasted her invincible armadas; Elizabeth of England, by nature haughty, proud, and ambitious, trembled at the very mention of them, until they were dispersed and destroyed by storms at sea; Spain is now the vassal of France


    49. The second is a king who was a vassal of Tiglath-Pilezer, king of Assyria


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    Synonyms for "vassal"

    feudatory liege liege subject liegeman vassal

    "vassal" definitions

    a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord