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Let me try (being the most trying person I know) this: as an underling, watching an over-lord escape censure for breaking a law underlings perforce must obey, I was and contunue to be a bit ticked.
Churchill, Horowitz, Plagiarism, and Academic Freedom Richard Nokes 2006
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Their chief god is Ymir, the frost-giant, and they own no over-lord, but each tribe has its king.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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They passed by hills, they passed by mountains, they passed through valleys, leaving behind them thick forests, and fields covered with flowers; and at length they reached the court of the over-lord.
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Their chief god is Ymir, the frost-giant, and they own no over-lord, but each tribe has its king.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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That combination of forces — the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man — would have cost some — probably all of them — their lives in the Southern States of America.
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Thus this scourge of the people had for three hundred winters occupied in the earth a mighty treasure-house, until a certain man enraged him in his heart; bore to his over-lord the plated goblet, and begged his master for conditions of peace.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Hence these _hatamoto_ carried themselves high even against the greater _daimyo [u] _, sure of support from their over-lord the Sho [u] gun.
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In the report made Okumura Shu [u] zen figured so well, that request -- amounting to command -- transferred him to the Tokugawa over-lord.
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The influence of an over-lord for good or evil, over those subject to his authority, was immense.
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The Duke of Burgundy entered into the _sovereign_ as well as into the mangled, maimed, and curtailed proprietary rights of the hereditary over-lord.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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