seneschals

Stuffy Pete happened to pass by on his way to the park, and the seneschals gathered him in and upheld the custom of the castle.

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Divers 2007

Stuffy Pete happened to pass by on his way to the park, and the seneschals gathered him in and upheld the custom of the castle.

Archive 2007-11-01 Divers 2007

Horses and carriages rattling and prancing, seneschals and pages, footmen hopping up and hopping down.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

The four seneschals with their palfrey to be there now, all balaaming in their sellaboutes and sharping up their penisills.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Two seneschals attended the first hour, so that was pretty cool too.

Manannon Mac Lir ealdthryth 2005

Wamba to himself, — but, fool as he was, taking care not to make his observation audible; “I should like to see her seneschals, her chief butlers, and other principal domestics!”

Ivanhoe 2004

Purnell Friote and his wife Richeline were capable seneschals, maintaining the manor in impeccable readiness for our return, all the while carrying on effortlessly without us.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Enquêteurs, working in pairs and with almost viceregal powers, investigated the conduct of local officials, such as the baillis and seneschals (sénéchaux); royal finances, organized in the Chambre de Comptes, superseded the feudal; appeals to the Parlement, the highest court that enforced and interpreted the law, were encouraged.

1270 2001

This-and the taverns like it, in this city and the other four trade-cities-was where the "legacies," the supervisors, the seneschals and trainers, came to forget the petty insults heaped upon them by their liege lords.

Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

During the reign of Edward II, the royal lieutenancy as a distinct office appeared with less frequency and his authority devolved upon the seneschals of Gascony, some of whom were styled senescallus et locum tenans

The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320 Jay Lathen Boehm 1992