Islâm might act, and did almost act, as if it were the only power in the world; it did so in the way of a grand seigneur, showing a great amount of generosity towards its subjugated enemies.

qui avoit défié mondit seigneur; et je ne doutai pas qu'il ne vînt m'arrêter à mon tour, et peut-être faire pis encore.

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.

But the evil did not stop there; for nearly all the few French-Canadian militiamen whom the more distant seigneurs had been able to get under arms deserted en masse, with many threats against any one who should try to turn them out again.

Il a fallu l'égorger pour ne pas heurter de front nos seigneurs les théologiens, gens qui voient si clairement la spiritualité de l'âme qu'ils feraient brûler, s'ils pouvaient, les corps de ceux qui en doutent.

He turned to the Greeks, as an element of vitality and numerical strength to be absorbed into his nascent state, and applied himself unremittingly to winning over and identifying with himself the Greek feudal seigneurs in his territory or about its frontiers.

In France it had either a single, double, or treble frame, denoting the rank of the territorial seigneur, whether gentleman, knight, or baron.

"He is," she said to the few onlookers who had hurried to the scene on hearing the shots, "the most amiable seigneur of the Court.

Les marquis de Lusace ont une haute tige, Et leur source est profonde à donner le vertige; Ils ont pour père Antée, ancêtre d'Attila; De ce vaincu d'Alcide une race coula; C'est la race autrefois Payenne, puis chrétienne, De Lechus, de Platon, d'Othon, d'Ursus, d'Étienne, Et de tous ces seigneurs des rocs et des forêts Bordant l'Europe au nord, flot d'abord, digue après.