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  • It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal to the Magna Carta, a noble, seminal document that upheld the rights of free-men.

    First Look At James Purefoy In Medieval Epic Ironclad 2010

  • Believe it or not, Nick, there were many slaves in Biblical and Roman times who preferred to be indentured to their masters for life, because they lived a far richer and fuller lives than those so-called free-men.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Sometimes there was a tribute from serfs as yet hardly distinguishable from slaves; sometimes there was a co-operation between free-men which the superficial can hardly distinguish from communism.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

  • Sometimes there was a tribute from serfs as yet hardly distinguishable from slaves; sometimes there was a co-operation between free-men which the superficial can hardly distinguish from communism.

    Vintage Distributism Richard Aleman 2007

  • Sometimes there was a tribute from serfs as yet hardly distinguishable from slaves; sometimes there was a co-operation between free-men which the superficial can hardly distinguish from communism.

    G.K. Speaks - Reflections on a Rotten Apple 2007

  • “Ongwá ntye” (contracted from Onwana wi ntye), Mpongwes of pure blood; the second are the “Mbámbá,” children of free-men by serviles; and lastly, “Nsháká,” in Bákele

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • He departed amidst the benedictions of millions of free-men.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Roman levies, successive generations of their young men one after the other, during the intervals between the wars; or that the armies were not always recruited out of the same states, though the same nation may have made war; or that there was an innumerable multitude of free-men in those places, which, at the present day, Roman slaves save from being a desert, a scanty seminary of soldiers being scarcely left.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • And the kings and the rulers of earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the mighty men, and the chief Captains, and the bondsmen, and the free-men who have lived deliciously with her and who bear the mark of the beast in their hands and upon their foreheads shall bewail her and lament for her, crying:

    When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

  • But now since we be free-men all, I and my fellows, fain would we march hence in thy train to thy honour and our joyance.

    The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

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