vassal

The young man's father had told him to run and get the Vassal.

Those, of course, he will hold directly from the king as his vassal.

Yet even with vassals of the same class, there might be differences.

But Vassal thought so much faster than a human being.

That might include her serving as a vassal to me.

The Vassal looked up and took a step towards the young man at the door.

Lord vassal, you speak to them when they are brought in.

Money could not bind a vassal to a king, only land.

A vassal also goes to his lord for justice, just as we do.

Me, I'd rather be the first; vassals tend to go to the well too often.

The vassal in these cases is the ruler, rather than the state itself.

The Vassal had told them that all these would be useless.

It was not only the king who acquired vassals in this way.

The local counts, though, were vassals of the French king.

He was a vassal, as indeed his father had been forty years earlier.

The lord also had to represent his vassals in court.

Its kings had little or no authority over the vassals.

Vassals would build upon this land to create their own housing.

And he required of them only that they should acknowledge themselves his vassals.

There is nothing we could have done to help the poor Vassal."

Then the nobles gave some of their land to vassals.

"Are we to become a vassal of the Chinese dynasty again?"

He worked his vassal to exhaustion and made no progress at all.

Hands reached down and he placed his own between them, as vassal to lord.

They told them to surrender and to submit as vassals.