This formula she abolished, and boasted that she had cast out the word serf from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Welsh slaves; indeed, in Anglo-Saxon, the word serf and Welshman are used almost interchangeably as equivalent synonyms. From Wordnik.com. [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference
A serf was a person who did not own his own labor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-06] Reference
A serf was a serf and his position would never change. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Mankind] Reference
Now it amused him to see what kind of serf he would make. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
And that was when they learned what the word "serf" meant. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
Much like the knights of old, we are supported by the efforts of the "serf"'s. From Wordnik.com. [Rubicite Breastplates & Narrative Nudges] Reference
Look up the word serf in your dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Pogo Meets Chicken Little] Reference
The situation with 'serf' type farming rights needs to change. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
A "serf," but a "free village-inhabitant," if the change in official terminology is not accompanied by some immediate material advantage?. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
But to a serf, it was hard, lung-bursting work at best. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Europe in which every grade from king to serf found a place. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
But he is the Old Man's bland, serf-assured and upscale favorite son. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Wave] Reference
The serf leaped back, then hovered over the body, club poised to strike again. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
"You saw the reaction of the Duke when he realized that Flor was actually a serf?". From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
As the man stood before him, dressed in the rough shift of a serf, Flor smiled grimly. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Agricultural serf families rose by serving Europeans as guides, spies and interpreters. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Alexander, the main cause of the emancipation act was the unprofitableness of serf labor. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Each stage offers the developing child a chance to renew her motivation and serf-confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Building A Better Self-Image] Reference
The serf was bonded in a hundred different ways, and it is significant of the esteem in which the. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Weizmann was born lower than a serf, but he wound up president of the very country he helped create. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Zion] Reference
What was accounted a virtue in a bold baron of the feudal days was a crime in that same baron's serf. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
No serf in his right mind would even think of raising a hand against a noble, not even in self-defense. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Truly, as his serf I am not even my own, nor have I anything that is mine, save in so far as he grants it to me. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The moment the swelled-head danger begins to arise, the spoiler in Powell is always there with a serf-mocking jibe. From Wordnik.com. [Sense Of Humor] Reference
But on this score I could well excuse myself, that a serf ought to refuse nought that his rightful lord commands him. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
Less obvious is the cost in lost motivation for learning when we fail to inculcate decent serf-images in our children. From Wordnik.com. [Building A Better Self-Image] Reference
Thou art my serf, I am thy lord, and I Can give thee or sell thee and take thy body and thy goods as a thing that is my own. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
To get pumped, Ollie seems to need a dreadful enemy, and he has worked him-serf into an apocalyptic lather over the president. From Wordnik.com. [Rolling Thunder] Reference
England will then form a contrast to the wretched serf of a Rajah, that will be a more powerful pledge of obedience than fifty conquests. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
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