The load that lay on them while lordless they lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
You would make a fine Knight Errant, gallant and lordless. From Wordnik.com. [April 24th, 2006] Reference
Lord of the universe for their protector, were now lordless. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Beholding those lordless widows escorted by Prithas son alone O Bharata, the robbers felt a great temptation (for plunder). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The widows of the other heroes of the Bhoja, the Vrishni, and the Andhaka races, lordless now, that set out with Arjuna, numbered many millions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
O Krishna, can be a greater grief to me than that my daughter of tender years should be a widow and all my daughters-in-law should become lordless. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another with a lordless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among the dead that are no more. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
About Sturmer the steadfast heroes will have no need to reproach me now that my lord has fallen, that I made my way home, and turned from the battle, a lordless man. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
Kuru's lordless, lifeless forces shall be angry Arjun's food!. From Wordnik.com. [Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse] Reference
The chariots, turning in like manner upon their own friends, whirled about among them by no means harmlessly; it was a Homeric scene of 'rumbling tumbling cars'; when once the horses shied at those formidable elephants, off went the drivers, and 'the lordless chariots rattled on,' their scythes maiming and carving any of their late masters whom they came within reach of; and, in that chaos, many were the victims. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
"lordless man, of whom no law can be got", and commendation was added to the forces which produced the disintegration of the tribal system. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
Finn to Hengest with oath, upon honor, openly promised that woful remnant, with wise-men’s aid, nobly to govern, so none of the guests by word or work should warp the treaty, 53 or with malice of mind bemoan themselves as forced to follow their fee-giver’s slayer, lordless men, as their lot ordained. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
Charters, Oxford, 1900, 66): "And we have ordained respecting those lordless men of whom no law can be got, that the hundred be commanded that they domicile him to folk right and find him a lord in the folk-moot"; (b) another way was by the institution of central taxation in the eleventh century -- in England by means of danegelt, abroad by various gabelles. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
"By my faith," said Robert, "I will not leave ye lordless. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference
No lordless host of things. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
No joy a lordless dame, although. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
And lordless, and fearless of lords. From Wordnik.com. [A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems] Reference
Fools absolute, and Pedants lordless. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
The lordless man then wakes and finds. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
All lordless, e'en so need is it to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
O whither shall we turn us, lordless men. From Wordnik.com. [Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew] Reference
But lordless, wanders where his will inclines. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
I am lordless and destitute of all my sons. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
My heart was lordless when with trumpet blare. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Comedy] Reference
The helpless, lordless, godless land. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
"O whither shall we turn us, lordless men. From Wordnik.com. [Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew] Reference
In the midst of this security and pride, the infallible forerunners of her downfall, let us call her forth, and say, as thy sword, prelacy, hath made many women childless, many a faithful minister peopleless, houseless and libertyless, their wives husbandless, their children and their congregations fatherless, and pastorless, and guideless; so thy mother, papacy, shall be made childless among harlots, your diocese bishopless, and your sees lordless, and your places shall know you no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference
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