Sentence Examples
The count plots to exercise his droit de seigneur, the right of titled men to deflower the brides of lesser folk. |
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The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land. |
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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. |
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Geoffroy de Payen, chevalier banneret de Touraine in 1213, seigneur de Boussay, The first known owner is. |
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The bourgeois were, therefore, subject to a king or seigneur. |
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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. |
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The essential title of a feudatory, introduced by the Normans, was signore, modelled on the French seigneur, used with the name of the fief. |
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Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
The wardship of this fief and manor, during the minority of the seigneur, was in the Crown. |
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There can be little doubt that Senior is usually a latinization of the medieval le seigneur, whence also Saynor. |
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On the reverse is a counterseal, with the arms of the then seigneur, P. Le Pelley. |
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He seems, however, to have had trouble with his seigneur GUI de Blois, and even to have resigned his chaplaincy. |
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With returning testiness the seigneur swung round to face him again. |
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The Smith was compelled to try his hand at transforming the seigneur. |
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No more not generous than the son of a seigneur, mine enemy! |
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In truth, Monsieur le Docteur Coictier, I felt great joy on learning of the bishopric given your nephew, my reverend seigneur Pierre Verse. |
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Of these divers places he is voyer, high, middle, and low, justiciary, full seigneur. |
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Oh, my dear seigneur, how I love you, and how grateful I am to you! |
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One moment, just one moment more, and we will go away, my dear seigneur. |
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And the Seigneur de Bracieux cast a profound glance over his colossal rotundity with a loud laugh. |
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Moreover, the costume of Seigneur Jupiter, was very handsome, and contributed not a little towards calming the crowd, by attracting all its attention. |
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