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• They traced their claims from the most ancient feudal times, when the lord was as much bound to maintain his villein in gross, as the villein was to work for the lord. —  International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
• We might hand our petition into the litter of one of the Gorôjiu, in the public streets; but, even in that case, as our lord is a member of the Gorôjiu, none of his peers would care to examine into the rights and wrongs of our complaint, for fear of offending him, and the man who presented the petition in so desperate a manner would lose his life on a bootless errand. —  Tales of Old Japan
• By no means, for my lord is a widower JEPPE. —  Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus
• The grim janitor relented at the touch of my money, which he took with all the indifference of a taxgatherer, and showed me into a parlour, where, he said, I might amuse myself till such time as his lord should be awake. —  The Adventures of Roderick Random
• "Nay, but our Sidi holds not with the Imam, for our lord is a Jew, and our lord is our master, our lord is our sultan, our lord is our king." —  The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable

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