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  • ‘Did he actually call him that?’ asked Laura, interested in this unfeudal appellation.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • These were especially common in the south of France, and it is characteristic of the organizing power of the Normans that they, in their passion for system, refused to admit so unfeudal a conception within their dominions, so that to this day in England there is technically no such absolute ownership of land possible.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.

    Persuasion 1892

  • He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.

    Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892

  • Politically, too, she was an anomaly; for, though utterly unfeudal in disposition and character, she was under feudal superiors in the persons of the representatives of William Penn, the original grantee.

    Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

  • He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.

    Persuasion 1818

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