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  • “I have to take the word of Seigneur de la Roche that you did not lead your English retainers here on purpose,” he said, though it was clear that to believe in my innocence pained him considerably.

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder.

    Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder.

    Michel and Angele — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Their Seigneur was the Hector, and their strand beheld debarking against it the boldest pirates of the

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • True, the Seigneur was her friend, but he had not sent for her.

    Michel and Angele — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • True, the Seigneur was her friend, but he had not sent for her.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Are you not aware that what was called a Seigneur was simply an unpunished usurper? ...

    The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • One gentleman especially, named the Seigneur des Cheriots, was so assiduous in his wooing, that he never failed to present himself at her lever and her coucher, and spent as much time in her society as he possibly could.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • THERE was a gentleman in Dauphiné named the Seigneur De Riant, of the household of King Francis I., and one of the best-looking and best-bred men of his day.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

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