The tenant farmer had to swear an oath of fealty to the owner of the property. From LearnThat.org.
Why should I pay through the nose in fealty to an obsolete business model?. From Wordnik.com. [Playing the Walmart card « BuzzMachine] Reference
What's more, their pious fealty is rewarded tangibly in the form of a paycheck. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Charmed, I'm sure] Reference
The filthy collarless girls approached me warily, squatting to urinate in fealty as they belly-crawled along the gravel driveway. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Two Jack Russells need a home. Take them? Pretty please? With sugar on top?] Reference
No one exceeds him and our members in fealty to our sovereign lady, the Queen: The Empire Club is distinctively Canadian and in serving. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Visit Dinner] Reference
The filthy collarless girls approached me warily, squatting to urinate in fealty as they belly-crawled along the gravel driveway. awesome sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Two Jack Russells need a home. Take them? Pretty please? With sugar on top?] Reference
I joined the Club because from the bottom of my heart I loved the Empire, (Hear, hear) and I love every association and tie which binds Canada in fealty to the beloved Motherland. From Wordnik.com. [Fascism] Reference
I don't think we owe the US the kind of fealty you're suggesting. From Wordnik.com. [in no way threatening to me] Reference
An insult of even greater proportion is the necessity to swear "fealty" to Israel, as was reported recently in the Washington post. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. From Wordnik.com. [2006 » January] Reference
It was the one kind of fealty he was incapable of rendering. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
You and your men have to defend them (which is why the people are paying you taxes or "fealty" in the first place). From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"fealty" The marine tenet that they don't leave their dead or wounded on the battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [ronald dean douglas] Reference
Jackson's idea of party, however, was personal fealty. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
And of my fealty, so solemnly sworn, Caterina knoweth naught. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
It was fear, not love, that prompted this recent outpouring of fealty. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor To His Class?] Reference
Shall she not take the vow of fealty to the State, instead of her child?. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The vaunted fealty that would make his cause their own, lacks practical illustration. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Buchanan calls his current insurrection an imperative of conscience, an act of fealty to principle. From Wordnik.com. [Vacuum Vs. Resentment] Reference
But, seven days after Kennedy's death, the FBI director had what he wanted from the president: fealty. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Cover-Up] Reference
They make excessive eye contact in fealty to the myth that truth-tellers always look you in the eye. From Wordnik.com. [How To Avoid Being Lied To] Reference
It conciliated affection and maintained friendship, preserved conjugal fealty and developed benevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Dogan issued a rebuke to Erdogan, saying he will not acknowledge fealty to the AKP or the prime minister. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey’s Media War] Reference
Without their transcendent leader, conservatives demanded fealty to his legacy, down to the smallest detail. From Wordnik.com. [A Penchant For the Politics Of the Poke] Reference
But, for the treachery of some of Her Majesty's subjects, the devotion and fealty of others made glorious atonement. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Because of their readership's fealty, these publishers don't feel the reverberations of the larger economy -- as much. From Wordnik.com. [Digital publishing levels the playing field for small publishers] Reference
A master who pays the lowest possible wages and demands applause and unconditional ideological fealty from his workers. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: The Evil Master] Reference
Everett disputes the suggestion that there's a contradiction between his reform rhetoric and his fealty to the price supports. From Wordnik.com. [Housebroken] Reference
It avoids the excessive fealty paid by most Gershwin re-interpreters - the swelling background vocals, the saccharine strings. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Brian Wilson, "Reimagines Gershwin"] Reference
It avoids the excessive fealty paid by most Gershwin re-interpreters -- the swelling background vocals, the saccharine strings. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Brian Wilson, ??Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin'] Reference
Amid the public war of words, the real struggle continues behind the scenes: for the fealty of the all-important superdelegates. From Wordnik.com. [Going Deep in the Deep South] Reference
Though he apparently trained in Qaeda terror camps, he was not a made man -- he did not swear an oath of fealty to Osama bin Laden. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Terrorist] Reference
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