The citizens began to find that things could hardly have been worse with them had they rallied round their courageous liege lady, and bravely defended their walls.
Most liege Majesty," began King, bowing so low that his shoulder cape fell off.
The next," announced the Sand Piper, "is an original poem by our mostliege majesty, the Queen.
We have taken our seats in the diligence to-morrow for Louvain, and on leaving Liege I must confess that I leave one of the most lovely places I have seen on the Continent.
At Liege on June 13th he wrote:--"And is it possible that I here begin a second volume of a journal?
Duke Charles admires Sir Max, but our liege lord is capricious and can easily fancy that others are plotting to injure him.
The saucy little elf rose from her chair, bowed low before me and said, 'I do liege homage to the future Duke of Burgundy.
One road led down from Cambrai and Ghent in the north, one from Liege in the northeast, and the one over which we had travelled from Metz came out of the southeast.
And in general, I believe all that GOD wills that I believe, praying, at the reverence of Almighty GOD, to you my liege Lord [HENRY V.
Then bespake a fair old Knight, That was true in his fay, "O my liege Lord the King, One word I shall you say!
There is news of stupendous importance in the official announcement that Germany is employing the bulk of her twenty-six army corps against France and Belgium between Liege and Luxemburg.
But the battle of millions along the vast front of two hundred and fifty miles between Liege and Verdun has opened, and the opposing armies are in touch with each other.
A Uhlan who was captured near Liege on Saturday was found to be the bearer of a map marked with the proposed marches of the German army.
Depicted on all faces this morning is anxious but confident expectation, for the public are conscious that a desperate encounter between two millions of men is impending in Belgium and on the Alsace-Lorraine border from Liege to Colmar.
We talked about the prospects of the war and especially of the Belgians' superb defense at Liege and also discussed the report that a British force had been transported to Havre.
Expectation of the great battle believed to be forthcoming to the north of Liege dominates the situation here.
My dame Joan" also performed another charitable service for her luckless liege lord, by bringing some warm water to bathe his galled and travel-soiled feet.
Luxembourg made a motion towards Liege as if he had intended to besiege the place; and encamped at Hellecheim, about seven leagues from the confederates.
The city of Liege was compelled to renounce the neutrality, and declare for the allies.
His brother, the elector of Cologn, admitted French garrisons into Liege and all his places on the Rhine.
The king of England sent off detachments towards Liege and Ghent; and on the sixth day of July posted himself at Genap, resolved to seize the first opportunity of retrieving his honour by attacking the enemy.
At the same time the marquis de Boufflers, with a considerable body of forces, intrenched himself before Liege with a view to bombard that city.
He remained fifteen days inactive at Waren, while king William recalled the duke of Wirtemberg, and drafting troops from Liege and other garrisons, was in a few days able to hazard another engagement.
He knew that the enemy was marking time till the troops of Liege and the Brandenburgers from the Rhine were near enough to co-operate in the Dinant enterprise, and he was determined to fight a battle at once.
It has been shown how the rapid mobilization and gallant defense of Liege by the Belgians delayed the former.
Belgium might not consent to suffer this invasion of her territory but the Belgian army was negligible, and the German heavy artillery was known to be adequate to dispose of the antiquated forts of Namur and Liege with brief delay.
Meantime the Germans pushed a heavy screen of cavalry forward, and there was steady skirmishing between Liege and Brussels, which was magnified into battles and German defeats.
Villiers telegraphed from Brussels: "German troops have entered Belgian territory, and Liege has been summoned to surrender by small party of Germans who, however, were repulsed.
More than eighteen have now passed since the fall of Liege in the present war.
Liege had been captured on August 7, the last fort fell on August 15.
And, all the while, the band of devoted heroes at Liege held to their ideal of independence, and Belgium grew to be a bigger thing in the eyes of the world, as her territory grew hourly smaller by the encroachment of the German invaders.
He said, "We must possibly have the forts of Liegeand Namur; we must have other forts and garrisons throughout Belgium.
They had their flame throwers and the heavy artillery and howitzers which reduced the redoubtable forts of Liege and Namur to fragments within a few hours, and which made the holding of any fortresses impossible.
It was now thirteen years since Raleigh had abandoned the hope of colonising Virginia, though his thoughts had often reverted to that savage country, of which he was the nominal liege lord.
My most dreadful and sovereign liege Lord, like to your Highness to wit [please your Highness to know] touching the purpose cast against your high estate.
My sovereign liege Lord, and most redoubted Prince Christian to me on earth.
If the King argued the points with Oldcastle, how could that confessor have done otherwise than strenuously endeavour to bring his liege Lord to the same views of doctrine which he entertained himself?
None, save the king, has aught against him; therefore do ye as I say, for he who would speak the truth must have respect unto no man, save only such honour as shall be due to his liege lord.
Sir Launfal denied that he had dishonoured himself or insulted his liege lord.
Neither for you nor for your love will I betray my liege lord.
She then asked if the Cardinal of Liege were coming with madame, and if he was a man who would aim at good?
Learn, my liege Lord, that an unlettered King is no better than a donkey with a crown on.
Thus sanctioned, William applied to his liege lord Philippe I.
She was naturally grateful, and her liege complacent; and the gossips say that in this wise began the romance of which one incident was the establishment of the Order of the Garter.
Then came the turn of the Scots, who held it off and on from about the time of Alfred the Great until John Balliol renounced the authority of his liege lord, to whom he had sworn fealty at Norham.
The ensign of the liege lord of Scotland is my warrant!
Athol sat knitting his black brows during this conversation; and at last throwing out some sullen remarks to Lord Douglas on exhorting the king to defy his liege lord, he abruptly left the room.
You saved my life on the walls of Acre; but you owed that duty to the son of your liege lord.
England, large grants in this country, and perhaps a fine English knight for a husband, when you might have all for the trifling service of giving up a traitor to his liege lord, and confessing where his robberies lie concealed?
Thus did Edward establish himself as the liege lord of this kingdom; and whether the oppresion which followed were his or his agents' immediate acts, it matters not, for he made them his own by his after-conduct.
He seized Berwick by stratagem; laid the country in ashes; and, on the field of Dunbar, forced the Scottish king and his nobles to acknowledge him their liege lord.
What dishonor, noble Scot, can accrue from acknowledging the supremacy of your liege lord; or to what can the proudest ambition in Scotland extend beyond that of possessing its throne?
Baliol, or expect the malediction of Heaven, the exterminating vengeance of your liege lord!
The army of our liege lord is now in the Lothians, passing through them under the appellation of succors for the regent from the Hebrides!
Yet in the final battle he still seeks to turn Raoul back before attacking him who had been his liege lord.
The knightliness of this scene is perfect, with its liege fealty and its carefulness as to the point of honour, its carefulness also that the vassal knight shall fail in no duty to his lord whereby the descent of his fief may be jeopardized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liege" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
