| The higher nobles pledged their fealty to the top ruler, the lower nobles to their overlords, and so on down to level of the serf. |
| I wipe the pieces with a slightly moist, very serf sponge and then begin to apply my three coats of Velvet base color. |
| When the serf no longer responded to whipping because you were just hitting old insensate scar tissue, that would be the equivalent of low batteries. |
| As a result, the personal freedom of the serf was restricted in a number of ways. |
| Just as it took place in Moscow, some Petersburg serf theatres were low-power and hardly deserved the theatre name. |
| Neither a serf nor a villein rightfully owned the land upon which he worked. |
