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How to use liege in a sentence

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I myself think that Americans should recognize the Queen as their rightful liege lord and rejoin the British Commonwealth!
My liege, Lord Ivan may have, to some extent, the ability to read thoughts.
So, he decided to require each European lord to take an oath of liege homage to him upon their arrival.
The Scottish king submitted completely, offering liege homage and a 15,000 mark fine.
At the Treaty of Paris in 1259 Henry III accepted that he held Aquitaine as a fief of the French crown and owed liege homage.
One would fight to the death for the lady liege, the madonna, and be happy with a talismanic scarf, a kind glance.
We have searched as we could, my liege, but the northern lords object to our presence more strongly every day.
Unlike his newly deceased liege, he was a remarkable soldier and statesman.
These oath-takings are critical to Tolkien's mythologising of the past because they reproduce the feudal bonds that a vassal pays to his liege lord.
There was only one thing that it was truly concerned for and that was to kill and to destroy any individual that dared to come against his liege, the Dark Master.
In the Roman successor states of western Europe, the feudal system contained a hint of servility in the act of homage that liege lords found it unwise to presume upon.
In 1334 Balliol had to pay the price, performing liege homage to Edward for his kingdom, and ceding much of southern Scotland to Edward III's direct rule.
In return the liege lord promised to protect and remain loyal to his vassal.
Meanwhile, in June 1156, peace was made with the Sicilians, and Adrian agreed to invest William, who in turn became the pope's liege man, which further embittered Frederick.
Philip, as Henry's liege lord, objected, stating that he should be the rightful guardian until the birth of the child.
The agreement resulted in the fact that the English kings had to pay homage liege to the French monarchs for territories on the continent.
A form of indentured servitude was allowed, being similar to a peasant's duty to his liege lord in Europe.
And after that he conquered all Scotlond, and made the Kynge of Scottes his liege man, to do him fewte and homage as he ought of right.
Tradition demanded that vassals approach their liege unarmed with heads bare.
Most of the common soldiers found it difficult to fight for a liege whom they distrusted, and some lords believed that their situation might improve if Richard was dethroned.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was dynast of the rich valleys and the green slopes, and liege lord of all living things about him.
Never, my liege, if you permit, will I uprise from hence till you have granted me the boon I ask.
Whether this included the reenforcement by the liege infantry is uncertain.
Though they be not yet one canonically, thanks to your soldiership, the earl is her liege lord, and she is his liege lady.
With mood-care they mourned their own liege lord's quelling.
The situation of the city is not as imposing as that of liege.
Doubtless reports had come to him of the situation at liege.
But the Germans had learned a severely taught lesson at liege.
Possibly the Germans had begun to doubt how long liege could hold out.
This was luckily repeated to my son, who had him arrested at liege.
That thou wouldst be pleased to see him privily, my liege, answered Cecil.
That is the good knight and great lord Sir Kay the Seneschal, foster brother to our liege the king.
Some of them beset the ship in their canoes, among whom was the Chinook chief Comcomly, and his liege subjects.
I hasted the message to our liege the king, and straightway he had me to his presence.
Drowned, my liege, in the fiord, as I had been but for your gracious help.
You will set out at once to follow me along the road to liege.
There has been no return of it but from the Minister of liege.
One only, Wiglaf was his name, would not forsake his liege lord.
From Liege to Cologne the country exhibited one boundless harvest.
After some meditation he named a place in a mercantile house at Liege, and another in a bookseller's shop at Louvain.
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