The true progress of man lieth in self-denial, and a man who denieth himself is free and safe.
Sooner will I lose theseigniory of my fathers, sooner will I lose my soul into the hands of Satan than permit this stag to escape me, the only one my spear has wounded, the first fruits of my hunting.
These are the lands it governs, the seigniory of Fortcastell”-- At this instant the heavy doors swung upon their hinges and a monk appeared beneath the lintel.
Because you become part heir of the seigniory by your husband's death!
Danton, who of course knew Jacqueline, took the opportunity of assuring me that her father, though a recluse and a misanthrope who had not left his seigniory for forty years, was said to be a man of heart, and would undoubtedly forgive us.
But you insisted I should marry him, because he had gained you the entrance to the seigniory and helped you to acquire your power over my father.
And Louis was to marry me, and in turn sell the seigniory to you.
And the seigniory is already his, and I am waiting for him to return and sell me the ground rights for twenty-five thousand more, and if I know Louis d'Epernay he will not wait very long to get his fingers round it.
Hewlett, how much do you think thisseigniory is worth?
The followers of the late chief then departed to Tizatlan where they founded a seigniory which continued to thrive in peace up to the reign of Xicotencatl, who was ruling when the Spaniards came.
The country around Quebec was still an unbroken wilderness, with the exception of a small clearing made by the Sieur Giffard on his seigniory of Beauport, another made by M.
Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute.
If it be D'Aulnay, we sent him back to his seigniory with fair speed once before, and we are no worse equipped now.
He promised me a seigniory if I would run and call some men with ropes.
Desirous of sparing my father and my wife the disgrace, I said to the bailiff of the seigniory who happened to be there: "The castle I see yonder looks to me weak in many ways.
For forty years I lived a serf on the domain of Compiegne, and it mattered little to me whether I exercised my trade of masonry in one seigniory or another.
After his arrival at the River St. John, Louis d'Amours fixed his abode on the banks of the Jemseg and became the proprietor of the seigniory formerly owned by the sieur de Soulanges.
The seigniory of Mathieu d'Amours, sieur de Freneuse, lay between the two seigniories of his brother Louis at Jemseg and Nashwaak, extending a distance of seven leagues and including both sides of the river.
To Rene d'Amours, sieur de Clignancourt, was granted a seigniory extending from the Indian village of Medoctec to the "longue sault.
Louis d'Amours, sieur de Chauffours, claimed as his seigniory at Jemseg a tract of land extending two leagues along the St. John, including both sides of the river two leagues in depth.
His brother Rene d'Amours, sieur de Chignancourt, lived on this seigniory a league or so above the fort.
A copy of the original lease of the Seigniory of Freneuse, with translation, and remarks by Dr.
He received a free grant of lands from the crown on certain conditions; one of these was that whenever the seigniory changed hands the act of "faith and homage" was to be tendered at the Castle of St. Louis in Quebec.
This seigniory would now include Carleton and the parishes of Lancaster, Musquash and Westfield.
The lowest floor of the seigniory house was the rock on which it was based.
But if she turns rebellious at these new orders, threatening to desert, and wanting the entire earth with the seigniory thrown in, there’ll be only one thing for me to do.
Once more were the bars put up, this time shutting two inmates out of the seigniory house.
Dollard turned his uneasy glance from her to the seigniory house.
She hath her seignioryto look after, and she was not a novice.
Out of the palisade door came a censitaire and his wife, who, having hurried to St. Bernard for protection at an alarm of Indians, staid to guard the seigniory house during Jacques Goffinet’s absence with Dollard.
His seigniory is opposite Montreal on the south-east shore.
One of my superior officers abandoned it in my favor, and took a less exposed seigniory near the Richelieu.
He lay panting in his little craft, feverish and helpless, and they towed him to the island and carried him up into the seigniory kitchen.
Yes, every seigniory will be sending out its men to the wife market.
A large table, suggestive of hospitality, was covered with drapery of the snowiest linen, the product of the spinning-wheels and busy looms of the women of the Seigniory of Tilly.
The house was bare of architectural adornments; but on its façade, blazing in the sun, was the gilded sculpture that so much piqued the curiosity of both citizens and strangers and was the talk of every seigniory in the land.
The plague increased in Florence and the Seigniory prohibited preaching in the churches for a time, but Savonarola persisted in preaching on Ascension Day.
But the Seigniory entreated Savonarola to come forth again from his retirement.
The Arrabbiati sent accusations against the Prior to Rome, while the Seigniory sought to vindicate him, most of the members, newly elected, being his friends.
With their help, and that of the Caporali, who had degenerated from popular tribunes to petty tyrants, and formed now a new order of nobility, Genoa forced Vincentello to retire to his own seigniory of Cinarca.
This little island had in earlier times been part of the seigniory of the Corsican family of Da Mare, but had passed into the hands of the Genoese.
There, said Ombrone and Bazzicaluga, they will restore to your children the seigniory of Ornano, and your own gentle persuasions will at length succeed in reconciling even Sampiero with the Republic.
Genoa had won them with gold, and the promise of the seigniory of Ornano, of which Vannina's children were the rightful heirs.
Louis Jolliet married and settled down on his seigniory of Anticosti Island.
There {207} was the seigniory of La Chine, named in derision of La Salle's project to find a path to China.
Such a seigniory was Verchères, some twenty miles from Montreal, on the south side of the St. Lawrence.
There were Groseillers and Radisson and a shy young man of twenty-five who had obtained a seigniory from the Sulpicians at Lachine--Robert Cavelier de La Salle.
Piers Gaveston, and besides creating him Baron of Wallingford and Earl of Cornwall, he presented this ill-chosen favourite with the great Seigniory of Holderness.
In the time of the Domesday Survey the Seigniory of Holderness was held by Drogo de Bevere, a Flemish adventurer who joined in the Norman invasion of England and received his extensive fief from the Conqueror.
It was on his return from these mysterious wanderings, that his seigniory is said to have received the name of La Chine as a derisive comment on his failure to find a road to China.
They appear to have even borrowed the name of the Recollet convent, Notre Dame des Anges, and given it to their own establishment and seigniory by the St. Charles.
He is the owner of twenty-seven lakes on the seigniory of Mille Isles and the water rights pertaining thereto.
In order to place an impassable abyss between himself and the world, he made a full and complete renunciation in favour of his brother Jean-Louis of his rights of primogeniture and all his titles to the seigniory of Montigny and Montbeaudry.
In 1663, the members of the Company of Notre-Dame of Montreal had made over to the Sulpicians the whole Island of Montreal and the seigniory of St. Sulpice.
The seigniory of Beaupré was also acquired, which with remarkable foresight the bishop exchanged for the Ile Jésus.
This Seigniory was granted in 1636, and is now the property of the Seminary of Quebec.
Its present owner was Andre Duchatel, a descendent of the Sieur Duchatel, a cadet of an ancient French noble family, to whom the seigniory was granted by royal letters patent, about the middle of the seventeenth century.
The Seigniory of Florence consented that two monks only should devote themselves for their respective orders, and directed the pile to be prepared.
On November 17th the seigniory assembled on a platform erected by the San Frediano gate; and numbers of young Florentine nobles went forth to meet the King, who made his state entry at the twenty-first hour of the day.
Even in the seigniory the majority was against them, and yielded to the pressing demands of the Pope.
On November 4th, the seigniory called a special meeting of the Council of Seventy, in order to decide what course to adopt.
On this day there was great agitation in the council; the safety of the country was at stake; the seigniory asked everyone for advice, and all wished to speak.
The seigniory also endeavored to quell the disturbances by means of edicts of the severest kind.
The members of the seigniory then rose and advanced toward him to pay their respects, while Messer Luca Corsini, being deputed to that office, stood forth to read a written address.
The French province of Beaujolais was formed by the development of the ancient seigniory of Beaujeu (department of Rhone, arrondissement of Villefranche).
In 1793 retired from the fur trade, and purchased seigniory of Mascouche in Lower Canada.
Born in 1678 in the fort on her father's seigniory on the St. Lawrence River, twenty miles below Montreal.
He continued to be a farmer on the Karnak farm, a dependency of the fief of Mezlean, held under the suzerainty of the seigniory of Plouernel.
Yes, judge what we must have felt, especially when we learned that one of the descendants of that Gallic race was in our own days among the vassals of the seigniory of Plouernel, on the domain of Mezlean.
The girl's property was within a seigniory held by the Church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigniory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
