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I think there are many wives in the South who are thankful that there is no longer a "Herald" to call their leige lords 'attention away from themselves, and who remember it only as an unwelcome visitor.
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[Jul. 13th, 2008 | 12: 38 pm] [Tags | ash ock, book review, christopher hinz, gemini blood, leige-killer, the paratwa]
Oldie Book Review: "Liege-Killer" by Christopher Hinz trinfaneb 2008
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Tonight, I am forced to act the vassal and bring my leige-lord (boss) and his court (crew) an offering of food and drink.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Tonight, I am forced to act the vassal and bring my leige-lord (boss) and his court (crew) an offering of food and drink.
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Eg forstår du har det travelt - men trur du at eg kan leige deg inn som forelesar i veke 41 på skulen vår?
The curse of a social being Torill 2007
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They did it all in hopes the leige lord might deign to give the lowly minstrels a meal, a mug of warm beer and a place sleep out of the elements.
The People's Paper for Leader Worship Ed Hollett 2007
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In this ancient place we were bound to old relationships of lord and leige that this new century had forgotten.
In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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And that carelesse ignorance may bee no lawfull excuse for the breach of his will therin hee hath appointed their severall names and titles, with their subordinate officers and deputies to be signified & proclaimed to all his lovinge and leige Subjects, in manner followinge:
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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The villein has become the independent farmer; the lord of the manor, the simple landlord; and the sovereign leige, in whom, according to the fiction of the system, the fee of the whole country vested, has become a constitutional monarch.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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"But my leige, I have not the money," replied the miller.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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