On every head these reverend seigneurs condemned her.
It is to be wished that he had written a discourse on himself alone, like other seigneurs of his time.
All these accompanied the said body reverentially, with the very noble seigneurs and ladies aforenamed, just as they started from Blois, all keeping fine order among themselves according to their several ranks.
The queen went on horseback, and the ladies and seigneurs on nags of the country, such as they were, and saddled and bridled the same.
After these torches came the reverend seigneursand prelates, bishops, abbés, and M.
If the seigneurs of such cities gave cause for dissatisfaction, they found that they had brought a hornet's nest about their ears.
But the subject Greeks were not to be Latinised by a handful of energetic seigneurs and merchants; one by one, as opportunities occurred, the provinces of the Latin Empire deserted to the allegiance of Nicaea.
But to fly thus--some fifty of them from the approach of less than a score--was to confess unworthiness of a better fate than that of which their seigneurs rendered themselves the instruments.
They were the grands seigneurs of the land on which we were born, these Ombrevals, and I could tell you of wrongs committed by them which would make you shudder in horror.
Radiant with joy at having escaped the fresh disasters that Rolf had threatened to overwhelm Gaul with, the Count of Paris, the Archbishop of Rouen and all the other seigneurs and prelates enjoyed the abject state of the King.
The brave emperor would march forth at the head of his troops to crush the insolent seigneurs and archbishops in their own lairs!
Francon," put in Charles the Simple imploringly, "the seigneurs also have provinces and daughters.
Rolf, Charles the Simple, the Count of Paris, together with the seigneurs of their respective suites proceeded to the vast hall of the chapter of the Archbishopric of Rouen.
Make it clear to the seigneurs and the abbots that we can not choose but win, provided we act concertedly.
The pirate's brutal horse-play was received with a loud outburst of joy by his Northmans, while the Frankish seigneurs and prelates, so far from thinking of avenging the outrage done to their King, remained silent and motionless.
It was only this evening that I was notified by some messengers of the seigneurs and abbots, whose lands border on the Seine, that the Northmans were here.
Now come the seigneurs of the suite of the Count of Paris, in their long robes embroidered with gold and ornamented with fur.
Although ridden by the priests and oppressed by seigneurs of the Breton race, Armorica still is free when compared with the other provinces of Gaul.
And yet less shocking than the fate of millions of the women of our own race who have been violated by the seigneursand the ecclesiastics.
At the foot of the dais, and facing the King and this assemblage of seigneurs and prelates, stood Rolf, accompanied by Gaelo and Shigne, together with the leading Northman chiefs.
Archbishop Annon of Cologne and the Palatine, Henry the Furious, held a meeting with certain other seigneurs at Andernach.
The descendants of the seigneurs who were the beneficiaries of Clovis and his sons have degenerated.
He had troubles with lawless seigneurs and with the police of Paris; he finally succeeded in obtaining the protection of the Duke of Bourbon, and he did not die till the end of the century.
Maisonneuve was kept in office by the seigneurs until June, 1665, the seigneurs having opposed the nomination made by the Conseil Souverain.
The population propaganda at Montreal was left largely to the seigneurs of the seminary.
Etienne Pézard de la Touche never acted as governor of Montreal owing to the rigorous protestations raised by the Seigneurs of the island.
A watch was kept by the Seigneurs on the weights and measures and they had them stamped with their seal.
All the young seigneurs of the Court have read the letters in which she assigns him rendezvous.
The gleam of the golden lingots of Peru, and the pale lights of the emeralds from the mountains of New Granada, exercised a hypnotic influence not only on ordinary seamen but on merchants and on seigneurs with depleted fortunes.
Nor is it altogether an old man's prejudice makes me think that the leaders of fashion in those times had more unmistakably the signs of being Grand Seigneurs than the men of our own day.
She called herself De Nipernois, and not without reason; for the family had been of rank, and were Grand Seigneurs once on a time.
But the wolves, for the Parisians, were less to be feared than the seigneurs and the brigands called escorcheurs, which followed in their train.
When they first embarked on their voyage to the Crusade, the clerks and the seigneurs were fearfully seasick and much repented themselves; when they had somewhat recovered, the king would draw them into serious conversation.
There is no guarantee for us against theseigneurs and their men, and no contract holds good with them.
Rollon and his companions had given a great impetus to the feudal régime in the duchy, and rival seigneurs built themselves strongholds, if possible, more formidable than those of their neighbours.
Within the walls was the castle of the seigneurs of Tancarville, of which more or less fragmentary ruins still remain.
The seigneurs had rallied to the Government which had restored their rights, and the clergy had called on the people to stand fast by the King.
But the habitants refused to follow their appointed leaders with the old docility, and some even mobbed the seigneurs who tried to enroll them.
In the first Assembly there were manyseigneurs and aristocrats who bore names notable for six generations back Taschereau, Duchesnay, Lothiniere, Rouville, Salaberry.
To bind the Canadians firmly to England, Carleton proposed to work chiefly through their old leaders, the seigneurs and the clergy.
Although heretic seigneurs and nobles had been by this time well-nigh destroyed and their lands had passed to others, there was still infection among the bourgeoisie of the cities and the peasantry.
Seigneurs who protected heretics in their lands forfeited them to the lord, or, if allodial, to the king.
I stooped, and picked up a beautiful white plume, like those with which our young seigneurs adorn their hats.
Nothing, I tell you; for he doesn't go to court, so that the grands seigneurs of his acquaintance need not know that he is in Paris.
The clergy and seigneurs wished for a continuance of the Quebec Act, and the habitants wanted they knew not what, provided it would enable them to get more and give less.
The clergy and seigneurswere thus restored to an acknowledged leadership in church and state.
The seigneurs sent home a warm defence of Murray; and Murray himself sent Cramahe, a very able Swiss officer in the British Army.
The seigneurs had nothing like the same regard for a Swiss soldier of fortune that they had for aristocratic British commanders like Murray and Carleton.
Fourteen years of kindly British rule had loosened the old French bonds of government and the habitants were no longer united as part of one people with the seigneurs and the clergy.
It conciliated theseigneurs and the parochial clergy.
The French-Canadian seigneurs sympathized with Payne, which added fuel to the magisterial flame; and Murray, scenting danger, summoned the whole bench down to Quebec.
The invectives against the redcoats and their friends the seigneurswere of the usual abusive type.
The defeat of the invaders, the arrival of Burgoyne's army, and the efforts of the seigneurs and the clergy had considerably brightened the prospects of the British cause in Canada.
I am unfortunately obliged to say that in this effeminate and decayed society there were not wanting philanthropists, ministers, magistrates, and grand-seigneurs to weep over the affair; but none of them did anything.
His Majesty's idea was that the cure should receive tithes, and that if these did not suffice to give him a decent living, further rates should be levied on the seigneurs and the people.
The seigneur de Rozel, as also all the other seigneurs holding in capite, owed suite de cour at the chief pleas of the Royal Court, as they do still to this day.
I am bold enough to think that a probationary tour through some of our London drawing-rooms would do good to the saucy young seigneurs I see leaning on the balcony of the Jockey Club when we are driving past.
The barons and free captains and little seigneurs were the lions, wolves, and bears that infested Guyenne and Perigord.
For three hundred years the barons and the great seigneurs of Aquitaine had been free to act in accordance with their passions, uncontrolled by any hand.
The seigneurs had allies everywhere; but their kinsfolk were not always their allies--were often their deadliest enemies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigneurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
