"Liegeman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Highlander, many a liegeman, Is blank on the roll of the brave in our land; And bare as its heath is the dark mountain region, Of its own and its prince's defenders unmann'd. The hound's death abhorr'd, some have died by the cord, And the axe with the best of our blood ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... had occasion to speak at the beginning of the book as belonging to the son of Argon, the Lord of the Levant, are also subject to the Emperor; for the former holds his dominion of the Kaan, and is his liegeman and kinsman of the blood Imperial. So you must know that from this province forward all the provinces mentioned in our book are subject to the Great Kaan; and even if this be not specially mentioned, you must ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... was a public one. William was surrounded by his officers of state, and by a large number of his barons. The English envoys were ushered in, and the duke asked them in a loud voice what answer they brought to his just demands on the part of his sworn liegeman, Harold. ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... 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. You of the bench, and you, my fellow-friends, Neighbours, we subjects all unto the king, We are English born, and therefore Edward's friends, Vow'd unto him even in our ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... perceived that Aucassin his son was not to be moved from his love of Nicolette, he betook him to the Viscount of the place, who was his liegeman; and addressed ...
— Aucassin and Nicolette - translated from the Old French • Anonymous
... Kriemhild went to visit Gunther, when the two women fell into a dispute about the relative merits of their husbands. Kriemhild, to exalt Siegfried, boasted that it was to the latter that Gunther owed his victories and his wife. Brunhild, in great anger, employed Hagan, liegeman of Gunther, to murder Siegfried. In the epic Hagan ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... as the French-speaking court named it, was a small principality ruled by Eberhard Ludwig's cousin, Duke Leopold Eberhard of Wirtemberg, a liegeman of Louis XIV. of France, and a man of strange notions. He had been reared in the religion of Mahomet, and with the faith he held the customs of Islam. Thus he had married three women at once, legally, as he averred; and in any case, the three wives lived ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... and night. When morning brake, the queen, A woman leal with kind barbaric heart, Her bosom from the sick man's head withdrew A moment while he slept; and, round her gazing, Closed with both hands upon a liegeman's arm, And sped him to the Saint for pardon and peace. Then Patrick, dipping in the inviolate fount A chalice, blessed the water, with command "Sprinkle the stately coursers and the king; " And straightway as from death the king arose, And rose ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere |
