One compound of ceorl was the word ceorlstrang strong as a man, used to describe exceptional women and boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Maybe it's intended to reflect a real or imagined class difference, with the ceorl class cast as hobbits and the eorl class cast as Rohirric warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Riddles - a thousand years of double entendre] Reference

The eorl and ceorl were the great distinctive appellations of noble and ignoble descent: none were or are admitted, it will be seen, to any important office in the coronation ceremonies but the former class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference

Little do I know of it, save to scold a ceorl or a nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

The ceorl sprang from the gate, and opened it, bending low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

He had said to himself again and again that her father was right; that the poor ceorl, Giles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

Every ceorl hath some hours to himself to employ to his profit, and can lay by for his own ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"They dared to say," replied the ceorl who had before spoken, "they had the sanction of the king.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

The earlier burgher was the freeman within the walls, as the peasant-ceorl was the freeman without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference

"Hence, Haco; rouse the household; summon hither the handmaids; call henchman and ceorl to guard this foul raven.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"No horse tramps the seeds we have sown for Harold the Earl to reap;" said the ceorl, doggedly, still seated on the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

All around it lay the roofs and huts of the great Earl's special tradesmen, for even his goldsmith was but his freed ceorl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

From forest and field came in ceorl and theow, hanging up their weapons or agricultural implements around the lower end of the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

Her eyes would call him -- without malice or intention, no doubt, but your early Briton ceorl or earl would be as well understood by her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shuttle] Reference

I will ask the King's leave to go to my East Anglians, and hold there a folkmuth, administer justice, redress grievances, and make thegn and ceorl content with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Ye all know that this was the strongest violation of Saxon right; ye know that the meanest ceorl hath the proverb on his lip, 'Every man's house is his castle.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"I was born a ceorl, and my father before me," returned Sexwolf, "and I feel with my class; though my grandson may rank with the thegns, and, for aught I know, with the earls.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Thus the Norman very soon lost sight of that distinction the Anglo-Saxons had made between the agricultural ceorl and the theowe; i.e., between the serf of the soil and the personal slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

There he stood musing long after torch and ceorl had passed away, nor did he wake from his reverie till Gurth, springing from his panting horse, passed his arm round the Earl's shoulder, and cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

On that happy day labour rested; ceorl and theowe had alike a holiday to dance, and tumble round the May-pole; and thus, on the first of May -- Youth, and Mirth, and Music, "brought the summer home.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Harsh and severe were those laws in the reign of the Anglo-Saxon; as harsh and severe, perhaps, against the ceorl and the poor man, as in the days of Rufus, though more mild unquestionably to the nobles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

The Sire de Graville involuntarily drew off from the Saxon's side, as if made suddenly aware that he had grossly demeaned himself in such unwitting familiarity with a ceorl, and a ceorl's son; and he said, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"Happy times!" may sigh the descendant of the last, if he read these pages; partly so they were for the ceorl, but not in all things, for never sweet is the food, and never gladdening is the drink, of servitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Constitutional history, 27-30) (4) Nor should it be forgotten that a ceorl or merchant could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

"Good man, thou wert a ceorl, and now thou leadest Earl Harold's men to the war!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

In this way the free ceorl of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference

And be he a ceorl, or be he an earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.] Reference

The weregild of a ceorl was 266 thrismas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832] Reference

A day, from earl to ceorl!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

But, from an early date, the English themselves were fond of verbal jingles, such as "Scot and lot," "sac and soc," "frith and grith," "eorl and ceorl," or "might and right.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference