The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Goliah] Reference
My preceding letters, dearest mother, have enabled you to form some idea of the Hebrew vassalage, which is one of the peculiarities of Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference
The absorption of the Danelaw by Wessex left the Celtic fringe in Scotland and Wales independent under a vague kind of vassalage to the king. From Wordnik.com. [616-80] Reference
A certain part of his land on condition of receiving in return services and fidelity, or, as it was later called, "vassalage". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
This literary vassalage, however, did not last long. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
In token of his vassalage he agreed to pay to the Papal. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"The English having lost Normandy, the vassalage ceased.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Babylon was occupied and the country reduced to vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
As for the rest of us, prepare for a state of extreme vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [After the Deluge] Reference
Christians, and an oath of allegiance and vassalage to the King of. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
This was not an act of vassalage, but a payment for public duties. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
For just ten years all Italy lay in sullen vassalage to Austria. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
In 1683 the Dutch reduced the sultan to vassalage, built the fort of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Recognition of vassalage collected from the unsubdued mountain tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Perhaps I had thought that this bit of vassalage would give her pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Call it servitude, vassalage, anything else, it might be endurable enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The vassalage of the poor has ever been the favorite offspring of Aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Such was the literary vassalage to which Goldsmith had unwarily subjected himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
But now Crete was down, they saw a bond that would hold the great land safe in vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
The tie which bound the tenant who accepted a fief to the lord who granted it was called vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Opposed to vassalage and servility (except to the state, that is), communists have often targeted tipping. From Wordnik.com. [The Point of Tipping] Reference
The vassalage of fashion, which is a part of rank, prevents continually the free expansion of men's powers. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
No intelligent mind in which the will is ruler is prepared to admit that it has been subjected to such vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
Prussia was formerly in a state of vassalage to that country; Russia once saw its capital and throne possessed by. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Such a being has often ideas of liberty, and a contempt of vassalage and slavery, which do honour to human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.] Reference
It is clear that the feudal method of land tenure, coupled with the custom of vassalage, made in some degree for security and order. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Assyria was exchanged for the vassalage of Egypt, and that, in four years, for the vassalage of Babylonia, whose supremacy over Western. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
The reconstructed Roman empire of Augustus soon reduced Armenia, Cappadocia and even the kingdom of the Parthians to a kind of vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
"I am instructed that Eleusis is in vassalage to Athens now; a feoff of the King's heir, whom, I take it, I have the honor to speak with.". From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Englishmen should rejoice that events have occurred here that promise to work out their country's deliverance from so degrading a vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
His first step in introducing his new system of administration was the abolition of vassalage, and the change of the titles of seignorial property. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
South American States, owing, in part, perhaps, to a former degradation, produced by colonial vassalage; but principally to the lesser contrast of colours. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
That had been a struggle between Italian states which wanted to be independent of Rome, and Rome which wanted the Italian states kept in a certain degree of vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Unless Honigalus was quickly defeated at sea or persuaded to accept vassalage, the Cathrans would have to withdraw ignominiously, with their tails tucked between their legs. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
South had been wrought up by artful and ambitious leaders to wild alarm that the new Administration would visit outrages upon them and try to turn them into a state of vassalage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Until their confidence and loyalty should be gained by friendly overtures, they were to pay a small recognition of vassalage, and subsequently the tribute in common with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
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