The grant of a seigneury on the banks of the St. Lawrence previous to the cession of the colony had restored the decayed fortunes of the. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
This territory began to have a settled life of its own immediately after the Revolutionary War, when the first United Empire loyalists came upstream from the mouth of the Richelieu River and spilled over the western limits of the old seigneury of Longueuil into what are now the counties of Glengarry, Stormont, and Dundas. From Wordnik.com. [Some Important Aspects of Canada's International Trade] Reference
His seigneury lies on the Richelieu, a little south of Fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Of course the gift was as yet a secret, because the two owners of the seigneury, had first to be disposed of, one being. From Wordnik.com. [The Borgias Celebrated Crimes] Reference
For him in his recalcitrancy there was only a younger son's portion, the little seigneury of Eaucourt, which had been his mother's. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
The fortified citadel of the seigneury was built on the site of a Gallo-Roman camp, or castrum, the castrum on that of a Gallic oppidum. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
The upper classes rarely went far afield, while the "rural population lived in a sort of chrysalis state, in immobility and isolation within each seigneury.". From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
Then the bold outline of Cape Tourmente loomed up in front of them; they passed the rich placid meadows of Laval's seigneury of Beaupre, and, skirting the settlements of the Island of. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Lorraine, spoke French, and belonged to the Catholic persuasion, whilst those dwelling on the right bank of the river, adhered to the seigneury of Ribeaupaire, and formed a Protestant German-speaking community. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
It would appear that the colony did not prosper, for it is on record that Philip in the year 1521 was living at his house at Eaucourt, a married man, occupied with books and the affairs of his little seigneury. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
Moreover, while some colonial soldiers are chasing him, Joseph takes the identity of a jesuit and hides in the seigneury of Beaufort where most men are waiting for "daughhters of the king" (French women who were sent to Canada in order to find a husband). From Wordnik.com. [The Cultural Post] Reference
Over the brow of intervening hills, the gothic windows, multiple towers and indefatigably varied chimney-pots of Ancreton Manor glinted against their background of conifers, and brooded, with an air of grand seigneury, faintly bogus, over the little village. From Wordnik.com. [Final Curtain]
Towers and palaces, all my heritage and seigneury, rose before me from the depths of night; I quaffed from jewelled cups the Falernian of imperial vaults; music from harps of celestial tone filled up the crevices of air; and the smiles of immortal beauty flushed like sunlight over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrims of the Rhine] Reference
Ah, then, we are no great way from my friend's seigneury. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Marie, "said he three times," I bring you the faith and homage which I am bound to bring you on account of my fief Herbert, which I hold as a man of faith of your seigneury. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
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