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loyalty — especially the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects owed their sovereign)- gave her oath of fealty
- inspires fear more than fealty
- ...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.Time Magazine, 2009 -- http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1907025,00.html (retrieved 09/22/09)
- And lasting fealty to the new-made king.Shakespeare -- King Richard II
- ...an odd mixture of fealty, reverence, and fatherly solicitude.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- They are alive... You owe everything... The King made you his deputy... Your fealty... It would not be true!T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- In acknowledgment of fealty, he proceeded to take upon himself the guardianship of his master's property.Jack London -- White Fang
- I got the feeling she had accepted my fealty and adopted us into her brood.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- Karna, in return, had pledged Duryodhana eternal fealty.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Will you give me a sign of fealty, bondsman?Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- One had been presented to Santos, vassal to Carlos, whose fealty to his lord had perhaps run its suffocating course.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- And so then when the assurance was made, he made his homage and fealty, and all those earls and barons with him.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
- Besides, I would prefer not to seize control of your mind and force you to swear fealty to me.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- "If you've sworn fealty to the Wild Hunt, you're one of them."Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- He goes, "Pledge to me your fealty," and I say, "Huh?" and he says, "Never mind, there's no time to look up 'fealty.'Rodman Philbrick -- Freak the Mighty
- 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.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- "To whom do you owe your fealty?" he demanded.R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
- Belike that now she hath enfranchis'd them Upon some other pawn for fealty.William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- As such, he will swear fealty to Lord Prusias and depart from Rowan in two days' time.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- And so then when the assurance was made, he made his homage and fealty, and all those earls and barons with him.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
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