Looking for sentences and phrases with the word seigneur? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The count plots to exercise his droit de seigneur, the right of titled men to deflower the brides of lesser folk.
The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land.
Regret about the abolition of droit de seigneur and the right of feudal overlords to flog peasants may be comic, but it is hardly an interesting political philosophy.
Geoffroy de Payen, chevalier banneret de Touraine in 1213, seigneur de Boussay, The first known owner is.
The bourgeois were, therefore, subject to a king or seigneur.
Affianced to the lovely Imoinda, the warrior prince Oroonoko, heir to a west African throne, is obliged to suffer the king his grandfather's insistence on his droit de seigneur.
The essential title of a feudatory, introduced by the Normans, was signore, modelled on the French seigneur, used with the name of the fief.
Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
Instead the play focuses on Don Juan as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur.
Le Seigneur de Tais, General of the Foot, landed at Bonchurch, where there was a hot skirmish between them and us, and on either party many slain.
The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
Examples from Classical Literature
The wardship of this fief and manor, during the minority of the seigneur, was in the Crown.
There can be little doubt that Senior is usually a latinization of the medieval le seigneur, whence also Saynor.
On the reverse is a counterseal, with the arms of the then seigneur, P. Le Pelley.
He seems, however, to have had trouble with his seigneur GUI de Blois, and even to have resigned his chaplaincy.
With returning testiness the seigneur swung round to face him again.
The Smith was compelled to try his hand at transforming the seigneur.
No more not generous than the son of a seigneur, mine enemy!
In truth, Monsieur le Docteur Coictier, I felt great joy on learning of the bishopric given your nephew, my reverend seigneur Pierre Verse.
Of these divers places he is voyer, high, middle, and low, justiciary, full seigneur.
Oh, my dear seigneur, how I love you, and how grateful I am to you!
One moment, just one moment more, and we will go away, my dear seigneur.
And the Seigneur de Bracieux cast a profound glance over his colossal rotundity with a loud laugh.
Moreover, the costume of Seigneur Jupiter, was very handsome, and contributed not a little towards calming the crowd, by attracting all its attention.
