toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

fealty
in a sentence

show 186 more with this conextual meaning
  • Some are united by fealty, some by commerce.†   (source)
  • One had been presented to Santos, vassal to Carlos, whose fealty to his lord had perhaps run its suffocating course.†   (source)
  • If the chance comes before me to save the last of the Herondale bloodline, I consider that of higher importance than the fealty I render the Clave.†   (source)
  • Rowan shall swear everlasting fealty to Prusias.†   (source)
  • "To whom do you owe your fealty?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • She never questioned this fealty, she told me; it was part of her bloodstream, so much so that as a little girl growing up she rarely even resented it.†   (source)
  • Fealty kept he; oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them.†   (source)
  • ...an odd mixture of fealty, reverence, and fatherly solicitude.   (source)
  • And lasting fealty to the new-made king.   (source)
  • ...he pledged fealty to Mullah Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, declared his fondness for al-Qaeda, and waged 'jihad' against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.   (source)
  • Today I shall accept oaths of fealty from my loyal councillors.†   (source)
  • Bid them to come to King's Landing and pledge their fealty to Joffrey when he takes his throne.†   (source)
  • King Robert is dead, and Mother and I are summoned to the Red Keep to swear fealty to Joffrey.†   (source)
  • I thought it best to choose men who owed Lord Tywin no fealty.†   (source)
  • Not to King's Landing and not to swear fealty, but to Riverrun, with a sword in his hand.†   (source)
  • If you go to King's Landing and swear fealty, you will never be allowed to leave.†   (source)
  • Robert found it in him to pardon men who served King Aerys, so long as they did him fealty.†   (source)
  • Robb has broken fealty with the Iron Throne and crowned himself King in the North.†   (source)
  • "He ought to be offering fealty," snapped Cersei.†   (source)
  • As such, he will swear fealty to Lord Prusias and depart from Rowan in two days' time.†   (source)
  • My cousins do me fealty, and in war I should command their swords and sails.†   (source)
  • Besides, I would prefer not to seize control of your mind and force you to swear fealty to me.†   (source)
  • "If you've sworn fealty to the Wild Hunt, you're one of them."†   (source)
  • He crossed the world to offer her his love and fealty, and she laughed in his face.†   (source)
  • These lords swore fealty to Robert and House Baratheon.†   (source)
  • Has he forced you to swear fealty to him?†   (source)
  • "Nor has she returned to King's Landing to swear fealty to Joff, as she was commanded.†   (source)
  • The Augurs made her swear fealty to Marcus.†   (source)
  • Rowan could benefit if she is wise enough to reconcile with Blys and swear fealty.†   (source)
  • "There was a loose fealty to Arthur, but his children had a harder row to hoe," he said.†   (source)
  • Will you give it in fealty at the ceremony?†   (source)
  • Do fealty to him for the castle and Ser Harras will protect you.†   (source)
  • Will you do as Prusias commands and swear everlasting fealty to him?†   (source)
  • "But," said Eragon, "didn't Morzan have her swear oaths of fealty to him in the ancient language?†   (source)
  • Like King Orrin and Lord Risthart, Nar Garzhvog had sworn fealty to Nasuada as his high queen.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I offer you my blade …. and my fealty as a Rider.†   (source)
  • Though all had renewed their fealty to the Iron Throne, none had come to join the siege.†   (source)
  • But just because a man sits on a throne doesn't mean automatic fealty."†   (source)
  • Robb Stark must lay down his sword, swear fealty, and return to Winterfell.†   (source)
  • All he had to do was pledge this king his fealty, and Winterfell was his.†   (source)
  • He also forced everyone who served him to swear oaths of fealty, and often with their true names.†   (source)
  • Rowan has until the winter solstice to swear fealty and fulfill my lord's demands.†   (source)
  • It requires you to surrender your soul upon swearing fealty to Prusias.†   (source)
  • And he knew that in the end, Helene would swear fealty to Marcus.†   (source)
  • Tell me, have any of you sworn fealty in the ancient language to Galbatorix or the Empire?†   (source)
  • He might have been the first knight in the realm to swear fealty to all six kings.†   (source)
  • He said if I swore fealty and held it, you'd live.†   (source)
  • FEALTY Eragon yawned and covered his mouth as people filed into the underground amphitheater.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix had threatened to kill Eragon unless she swore fealty to him, the king.†   (source)
  • A score of captives still waited, though whether to pledge fealty or shout curses, who could say?†   (source)
  • Rings of Power, as you call them, are symbols of office and fealty, nothing more.†   (source)
  • Will you swear your fealty to me in the ancient language?†   (source)
  • Full pardons, for all those who repent of treason and swear fealty to their rightful king.†   (source)
  • My oath of fealty compels me to ensure the safety of Nasuada and the Varden.†   (source)
  • "I swear fealty to Marcus Antonius Farrar," she says.†   (source)
  • Kneel and swear fealty to your ancestor….†   (source)
  • My lord father owes Lady Lysa fealty, as does his heir.†   (source)
  • With a broad grin, he twisted his hand over his sternum in the elves' gesture of fealty and bowed.†   (source)
  • I want Lady Lysa and her son to acclaim Joffrey as king, to swear fealty, and to—†   (source)
  • He was ransomed afterward and pledged his fealty to King Joffrey, as did many other captives.†   (source)
  • And if I swear fealty, I'll be chained to the Emperor as the second-in-command—the Blood Shrike.†   (source)
  • King is only a word, but fealty, loyalty, service …. those I must have.†   (source)
  • Is it binding, like my oath of fealty to Nasuada?†   (source)
  • As for swearing fealty, see if you can avoid acquiescing.†   (source)
  • We fought the Urgals, killed Durza, and I have sworn fealty to the leader of the Varden.†   (source)
  • Bend the knee and swear fealty to my son, and we shall allow you to step down as Hand and live out your days in the grey waste you call home.†   (source)
  • Only …. if Mother or Robb did anything treasonous, called the banners or refused to swear fealty or anything, it would all go wrong.†   (source)
  • King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful.†   (source)
  • "I came down on Storm's End to lift the siege," Ned told them, "and the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne dipped their banners, and all their knights bent the knee to pledge us fealty.†   (source)
  • What Blackwood urged, Bracken opposed, as ever; Lord Jonos Bracken rose to insist they ought pledge their fealty to King Renly, and move south to join their might to his.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle, Varys the Spider, Lord Balon Greyjoy; each had been counted an enemy to Robert once, and each had been welcomed into friendship and allowed to retain honors and office for a pledge of fealty.†   (source)
  • From a drooping sleeve, heavy with gilded scrollwork, he drew a parchment, unrolled it, and began to read a long list of names, commanding each in the name of king and council to present themselves and swear their fealty to Joffrey.†   (source)
  • Borrell did fealty for Sweetsister, as Longthorpe did for Longsister and Torrent for Littlesister; all were sworn to Triston Sunderland, the Lord of the Three Sisters.†   (source)
  • We want you to be present at the appointing-no one, not even Hrothgar, can complain about it then-and to swear fealty to the Varden.†   (source)
  • Chauncey's oath of fealty.†   (source)
  • Brother Zachariah looked grave, and Clary remembered what he had said to her, once: If the chance comes before me to save the last of the Herondale bloodline, I consider that of higher importance than the fealty I render the Clive. lace Herondale," he said.†   (source)
  • They soon reached agreement on the major points: confession, fealty, pardon, a certain sum of gold and silver to be paid.†   (source)
  • "My fealty's owed to House Hayford, and Lady Ermesande bends her little knee at King's Landing, or will when she's old enough to walk.†   (source)
  • I surrender it when I swear fealty.†   (source)
  • He had tried his best to dissuade the prince from giving Duckfield that cloak, pointing out that the honor might best be held in reserve for warriors of greater renown whose fealty would add luster to their cause, and the younger sons of great lords whose support they would need in the coming struggle, but the boy would not be moved.†   (source)
  • Lilith's already sworn fealty.†   (source)
  • Then the clan chiefs came forward, one by one, and they knelt before Orik and swore their fealty to him as his loyal subjects.†   (source)
  • The queen took them as her own men, and said they'd owe no fealty to Maidenpool, Crab Isle, or Duskendale.†   (source)
  • As long as you don't pledge fealty to Galbatorix, there's still a chance I can spirit you out of Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • "It's no wonder that everyone swore oaths of fealty to Arthur," said Artus, "if this was what happened when someone ticked him off."†   (source)
  • The process would continue as needed until a clan chief had achieved the necessary majority, at which point, the meet would swear fealty to him or her as their new monarch.†   (source)
  • When my father denied his claim to the Seastone Chair, the Crow's Eye drowned him and made my uncles swear him fealty.†   (source)
  • Unbend your pride and pledge your fealty to me, and I shall give you everything you have ever wanted.†   (source)
  • The next day, the column crossed the stream that formed the boundary between the lands that did fealty to King's Landing and those beholden to Riverrun.†   (source)
  • The same man who had spoken before, who appeared to be the captain of the soldiers, said, "We would not swear fealty to the king even if he held a sword to our necks!†   (source)
  • Lord Wull came to Winterfell once, to do his fealty and talk with Father, and he had the buckets on his shield.†   (source)
  • Chapter Twenty-Two All Their Roads Before Them The remainder of the night was spent in caring for the wounded and obtaining oaths of fealty from the Goblin King and Troll commanders, and all of the things that must be attended to at the conclusion of a war—which, all things considered, was far preferable to going through the same motions from the losing side.†   (source)
  • "Your fealty, Aquilla," he says flatly.†   (source)
  • At the end of the dock, a flaking shingle swung from an iron post, painted with the likeness of a king upon his knees, his hands pressed together in the gesture of fealty.†   (source)
  • Swear fealty to me.†   (source)
  • "No man here is a turncloak, ser. My fealty belongs to Storm's End, and King Stannis is its rightful lord …. and our true king.†   (source)
  • No one notices, but for a brief moment, as Aquilla swears her fealty, I catch a glimpse of Elias's face.†   (source)
  • Now, you must decide whether you will uphold your oath of fealty and abide by my decision, even though you may not agree with it, or if you will set yourself up as a mirror image of Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • Now the time has arrived for our guests to bend their knees and give to me their oaths of fealty…… Come closer, the both of you, and I shall heal your wounds, and then we shall proceed.†   (source)
  • Said Glaedr,Because you swore fealty to Nasuada, and you owe her your loyalty and obedience, you may tell her of my heart if you must, but only if you must.†   (source)
  • Yet she knew as well as he that this was not the time; he was Lord of Riverrun now, and his knights were falling in around him, murmuring condolences and promises of fealty, walling him off from something as small as a sister's grief.†   (source)
  • The years have passed in their hundreds and their thousands since my folk first swore their fealty to the King in the North.†   (source)
  • All I had to do was swear fealty to whoever won the Trial—and hold to that fealty no matter what the cost.†   (source)
  • Among them,oaths of fealty were the most common, but there were also wards, enchantments to grant skills beyond the ordinary, and other, more mysterious spells.†   (source)
  • "My lord father bids me tell Your Grace that he will agree to this new marriage alliance between our houses and renew his fealty to the King in the North, upon the condition that the King's Grace apologize for the insult done to House Frey, in his royal person, face to face."†   (source)
  • Let them do you fealty for their lands.†   (source)
  • It was not Murtagh's fault that the Twins had abducted him; that the red dragon, Thorn, had hatched for him; or that Galbatorix had discovered their true names, with which he extracted oaths of fealty in the ancient language from both Murtagh and Thorn.†   (source)
  • The council could not object because all Eragon had said was that he would swear fealty, but not to whom.†   (source)
  • Let your duty be appeased now, and give me your oath of fealty in the ancient language, and ere the hour is out, you will have a dozen servants to command, robes of silk and damask to wear, a set of chambers to live in, and a place at my table when we dine.†   (source)
  • Then kneel now and swear fealty, for we, the Augurs, name Marcus Antonius Farrar Emperor, he who was Foretold, High Commander of the Martial Army, lmperator Invictus, Overlord of the Realm.†   (source)
  • I, Eragon, first Rider of the Varden, Shadeslayer and Argetlam, give you my blade and my fealty, Nasuada.†   (source)
  • She swore fealty to Marcus.†   (source)
  • Yet in spite of that discouragement, and in spite of the fact that he was already bound in fealty to Nasuada, Eragon accepted Hrothgar's gift, knowing full well that it would only make his life harder.†   (source)
  • Her only offspring were battles and corpses and trundling supply trains; stratagems too numerous to remember; oaths of friendship and fealty now worth less than a mummer's promise; and a halting, fractious, all-too-vulnerable army led by a Rider younger than she was herself.†   (source)
  • And this is Jojen Reed and his sister Meera, son and daughter to Howland Reed of Greywater Watch, who came to renew their oaths of fealty to Winterfell.†   (source)
  • Your brothers will not like it, no more than your father's lords, but I mean to allow the wildlings through the Wall …. those who will swear me their fealty, pledge to keep the king's peace and the king's laws, and take the Lord of Light as their god.†   (source)
  • Those who swear fealty to Balon Greyjoy as their king and to myself as Prince of Winterfell will be confirmed in their rights and properties and suffer no harm.†   (source)
  • You've sworn fealty to her.†   (source)
  • Since my scheme with the lace, and since I triumphed in the Trial of the Long Knives and the wandering tribes swore absolute fealty to me and granted me access to their riches, we are less likely to starve to death and more likely to die because we don't have a shield or a spear.†   (source)
  • Very well, as my newest and only vassal, will you agree to give your fealty to me again-in public, when the council expects your vow?†   (source)
  • The Old Ones have always nested on Helgrind, but in the time of my grandfather's father, Galbatorix stole their eggs and killed their young, and he forced them to swear fealty to him lest he eradicate their line entirely.†   (source)
  • Blood calls to blood, and if ever your Family should need help, do then what you can for the Church and for others who acknowledge the power of our Dread Lord…… To affirm and reaffirm our fealty to the Triumvirate, recite with me the Nine Oaths…… By Gorm, Ilda, and Fell Angvara, we vow to perform homage at least thrice a month, in the hour before dusk, and then to make an offering of ourselves to appease the eternal hunger of our Great and Terrible Lord…… We vow to observe the…†   (source)
  • Those who had changed their allegiance during the battle needed only to swear fealty to Joffrey, but the ones who had fought for Stannis until the bitter end were compelled to speak.†   (source)
  • But I think it's also an attempt to correct the imbalance of power created when I swore fealty to Nasuada.†   (source)
  • The Queen Regent and her son shall make no claims to taxes, incomes, nor service from my people, and shall free my lords and knights from all oaths of fealty, vows, pledges, debts, and obligations owed to the Iron Throne and the Houses Baratheon and Lannister.†   (source)
  • Upon the fifth day, when the gate was nearly rebuilt and the city seemed reasonably secure, Nasuada ordered Eragon and Saphira to fly to Dras-Leona, and thence to Belatona, Feinster, and Aroughs, and in each place to use the name of the ancient language to release from their oaths everyone who had sworn fealty to Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • I do accept your fealty with honor, Rider, as you accept all the responsibilities accompanying the station.†   (source)
  • Then Vanir did what Eragon had never expected: the elf twisted his uninjured hand in the gesture of fealty, placed it upon his sternum, and bowed.†   (source)
  • When he had pledged fealty to Nasuada, he had done so for the good of Roran and the other people trapped within the Empire.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she only trusted Eragon because he was a Rider-although that was no proof of virtue, as Galbatorix had shown-and because of his oath of fealty, which Nasuada knew he would never break.†   (source)
  • This way, they assert their superiority over Nasuada, gain control over us through fealty, and also get the benefit of having a Rider endorse Nasuada in public.†   (source)
  • The dwarves can claim your allegiance as a member of Durgrimst Ingeitum, the elves will train and shape you-and their influence may be the strongest, for you and Saphira are bound by their magic-and you have sworn fealty to me, a human…… Perhaps it is best that we share your loyalty.†   (source)
  • Fealty!†   (source)
  • Her subservience to her father, for example, was complete, as complete as in any neopaleolithic pigmy culture of the rain forest, demanding utter fealty from the helpless offspring.†   (source)
  • And this do I hear, Denethor son of Ecthelion, Lord of Gondor, Steward of the High King, and I will not forget it, nor fail to reward that which is given: fealty with love, valour with honour, oath-breaking with vengeance.†   (source)
  • Then at last I saw Nathan slowly sink to his knees on the hard pavement, where, surrounding Sophie's legs with his arms, he remained motionless for what seemed an interminable time, frozen in an attitude of devotion, or fealty, or penance, or supplication—or all of these.†   (source)
  • The old man laid the sword along his lap, and Pippin put his hand to the hilt, and said slowly after Denethor: 'Here do I swear fealty and service to Gondor, and to the Lord and Steward of the realm, to speak and to be silent, to do and to let be, to come and to go, in need or plenty, in peace or war, in living or dying, from this hour henceforth, until my lord release me, or death take me, or the world end.†   (source)
  • They are alive… You owe everything… The King made you his deputy… Your fealty… It would not be true!†   (source)
  • My last brother has broken his fealty.†   (source)
  • So he rendered fealty in the new way, by running with the master's horse.†   (source)
  • In acknowledgment of fealty, he proceeded to take upon himself the guardianship of his master's property.†   (source)
  • While all minds were struggling to right themselves, the boy still moved steadily forward, with high port and confident mien; he had never halted from the beginning; and while the tangled minds still floundered helplessly, he stepped upon the platform, and the mock-King ran with a glad face to meet him; and fell on his knees before him and said— "Oh, my lord the King, let poor Tom Canty be first to swear fealty to thee, and say, 'Put on thy crown and enter into thine own again!'†   (source)
  • In the Northland he had evidenced his fealty by toiling in the harness; but there were no sleds in the Southland, nor did dogs pack burdens on their backs.†   (source)
  • The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang.†   (source)
  • Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourselves to his majesty for your fealty and strict loyalty, and that at our recommendation the king consented to forget the past, as I do" (and here she extended to him her hand)—"as I now do at your entreaty.†   (source)
  • She returned this fealty by causing it to be understood that she was even more incensed against the felonious shade of the deceased than anybody else was; thus, on the whole, she came out of her furnace like a wise woman, and did exceedingly well.†   (source)
  • There was a fable, however,—for such we choose to consider it, though, not impossibly, typical of Judge Pyncheon's marital deportment,—that the lady got her death-blow in the honeymoon, and never smiled again, because her husband compelled her to serve him with coffee every morning at his bedside, in token of fealty to her liege-lord and master.†   (source)
  • As I saw that he was restrained by fealty to Little Britain from saying as much as he could, and as I knew with thankfulness to him how far out of his way he went to say what he did, I could not press him.†   (source)
  • Well, said Arthur, ye understand ye ought to do me service, homage, and fealty.†   (source)
  • And so then when the assurance was made, he made his homage and fealty, and all those earls and barons with him.†   (source)
  • By this were the knights of the country come, and then he made them do homage and fealty to the king's daughter, and set them in great ease of heart.†   (source)
  • Then came in the Red Knight, with three score knights with him, and did to Sir Gareth homage and fealty, and all those knights to hold of him for evermore.†   (source)
  • Then came the Duke de la Rowse with an hundred knights with him, and there he did homage and fealty to Sir Gareth, and so to hold their lands of him for ever.†   (source)
  • And then all they that longed to the castle came to him, and did him homage and fealty, praying him that he would abide there still a little while to fordo that foul custom.†   (source)
  • It shall be done, said the duke, and I will do to you homage and fealty with an hundred knights with me; and all the days of my life to do you service where ye will command me.†   (source)
  • And upon the morn they heard mass and dined, and the Red Knight came before Beaumains with his three score knights, and there he proffered him his homage and fealty at all times, he and his knights to do him service.†   (source)
  • Then came in the Red Knight of the Red Launds, that was Sir Ironside, and he brought with him three hundred knights, and there he did homage and fealty, and all these knights to hold their lands of him for ever.†   (source)
  • Then came in Sir Persant of Inde, with an hundred knights with him, and there he did homage and fealty, and all his knights should do him service, and hold their lands of him for ever; and there he prayed Sir Gareth to make him his sewer-chief at the feast.†   (source)
  • And now since ye have won these, this shall I do for to please you: ye shall have homage and fealty of me, and an hundred knights to be always at your commandment, to go and ride where ye will command us.†   (source)
  • And so when this solemnization was done, then came in the Green Knight, Sir Pertolepe, with thirty knights, and there he did homage and fealty to Sir Gareth, and these knights to hold of him for evermore.†   (source)
  • , ado, commotion, Faren, pp., treated, Faute, lack,; fauted, lacked, Fealty, oath of fidelity, Fear, frighten, Feute, trace, track, Feuter, set in rest, couch, Feutred, set in socket, Fiaunce, affiance, promise, Flang, flung,; rushed, Flatling, prostrate, Fleet, float, Flemed, put to flight, Flittered, fluttered, Foiled, defeated, shamed, Foined, thrust, Foining, thrusting, Foins, thrusts, Foot-hot, hastily, For-bled, spent with bleeding, Force (no), no concern, Fordeal, advantage,…†   (source)
  • And all they fell upon their knees, and prayed him of mercy, and that he would save his life; and, Sir, they all said, it were fairer of him to take homage and fealty, and let him hold his lands of you than for to slay him; by his death ye shall have none advantage, and his misdeeds that be done may not be undone; and therefore he shall make amends to all parties, and we all will become your men and do you homage and fealty.†   (source)
  • And when they of Milan heard that thilk city was won, they sent to King Arthur great sums of money, and besought him as their lord to have pity on them, promising to be his subjects for ever, and yield to him homage and fealty for the lands of Pleasance and Pavia, Petersaint, and the Port of Tremble, and to give him yearly a million of gold all his lifetime.†   (source)
  • I swear by the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the holy iron that I hold, to give ye my fealty and pledge ye my loyalty to the name of the clan MacKenzie.†   (source)
  • I recognized it from the oath-taking ceremony in Colum's hall, but he followed it with the English translation for my benefit: "I swear on the cross of my Lord Jesus, and by the holy iron which I hold, that I give ye my fealty and pledge ye my loyalty.†   (source)
  • From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Devan's office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage.†   (source)
  • Belike that now she hath enfranchis'd them Upon some other pawn for fealty.†   (source)
  • Well, said Arthur, ye understand ye ought to do me service, homage, and fealty.†   (source)
  • What I could tell thee of the charms of her person! of her lively wit! of other secret matters which, to preserve the fealty I owe to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, I shall pass over unnoticed and in silence!†   (source)
  • But yet all is not done; Man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting God-head, and, so losing all, To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die, Die he or justice must; unless for him Some other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.†   (source)
  • And so then when the assurance was made, he made his homage and fealty, and all those earls and barons with him.†   (source)
  • There was a common head, chieftain, or sovereign, whose authority extended over the whole nation; and a number of subordinate vassals, or feudatories, who had large portions of land allotted to them, and numerous trains of INFERIOR vassals or retainers, who occupied and cultivated that land upon the tenure of fealty or obedience, to the persons of whom they held it.†   (source)
  • In sign whereof, each bird and beast behold After their kinds; I bring them to receive From thee their names, and pay thee fealty With low subjection; understand the same Of fish within their watery residence, Not hither summoned, since they cannot change Their element, to draw the thinner air.†   (source)
  • Then came in the Red Knight, with three score knights with him, and did to Sir Gareth homage and fealty, and all those knights to hold of him for evermore.†   (source)
  • By this were the knights of the country come, and then he made them do homage and fealty to the king's daughter, and set them in great ease of heart.†   (source)
  • …us woe and shame By sly assault; and somewhere nigh at hand Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find His wish and best advantage, us asunder; Hopeless to circumvent us joined, where each To other speedy aid might lend at need: Whether his first design be to withdraw Our fealty from God, or to disturb Conjugal love, than which perhaps no bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more; Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side That gave thee being, still shades thee, and protects.†   (source)
  • And then all they that longed to the castle came to him, and did him homage and fealty, praying him that he would abide there still a little while to fordo that foul custom.†   (source)
  • It shall be done, said the duke, and I will do to you homage and fealty with an hundred knights with me; and all the days of my life to do you service where ye will command me.†   (source)
  • Then came the Duke de la Rowse with an hundred knights with him, and there he did homage and fealty to Sir Gareth, and so to hold their lands of him for ever.†   (source)
  • And so when this solemnization was done, then came in the Green Knight, Sir Pertolepe, with thirty knights, and there he did homage and fealty to Sir Gareth, and these knights to hold of him for evermore.†   (source)
  • And now since ye have won these, this shall I do for to please you: ye shall have homage and fealty of me, and an hundred knights to be always at your commandment, to go and ride where ye will command us.†   (source)
  • And upon the morn they heard mass and dined, and the Red Knight came before Beaumains with his three score knights, and there he proffered him his homage and fealty at all times, he and his knights to do him service.†   (source)
  • Then came in the Red Knight of the Red Launds, that was Sir Ironside, and he brought with him three hundred knights, and there he did homage and fealty, and all these knights to hold their lands of him for ever.†   (source)
  • Then came in Sir Persant of Inde, with an hundred knights with him, and there he did homage and fealty, and all his knights should do him service, and hold their lands of him for ever; and there he prayed Sir Gareth to make him his sewer-chief at the feast.†   (source)
  • And when they of Milan heard that thilk city was won, they sent to King Arthur great sums of money, and besought him as their lord to have pity on them, promising to be his subjects for ever, and yield to him homage and fealty for the lands of Pleasance and Pavia, Petersaint, and the Port of Tremble, and to give him yearly a million of gold all his lifetime.†   (source)
  • And all they fell upon their knees, and prayed him of mercy, and that he would save his life; and, Sir, they all said, it were fairer of him to take homage and fealty, and let him hold his lands of you than for to slay him; by his death ye shall have none advantage, and his misdeeds that be done may not be undone; and therefore he shall make amends to all parties, and we all will become your men and do you homage and fealty.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)