29 Metaphors for baron

He had proved that, however they might ape the part, the barons were not as a matter of fact the absolute lords of Ireland; that they had a master beyond the sea; one who, if aroused, could make the boldest of them shake in his coat of mail.

In the hands of the church, which wished to mould him into a Christian knight, the feudal baron was a very intractable individual.

All barons or others, who approach within half a mile of the residence of the great khan, must be still and quiet, no noise or loud speech being permitted in his presence or neighbourhood.

" The fact that the Baron was ruler of Finland amazed me, for I had half-expected him to be some clever adventurer.

The barons were the Norman nobles; the thanes, the Saxon.

As I have told you, the baron is a most impulsive person, though he is poisoned with evil from his head to his heart.

The baron whom Bisclaveret first assaulted is her present husband.

The Baron was a most admirable teller of stories, with a capital sense of humour.

Nine barons of the King of England, and as many of the King of France, were guarantees of this treaty; and all of them swore that if their sovereign violated any article of it, they would declare themselves against him, and embrace the cause of the injured monarch

The barons were peers to each other in the national council, and, in some degree, companions to the king: the vassals were peers to each other in the court of barony, and companions to their baron

" When a lord's son came of age, in the olden time, the baron of beef was too small a joint, by many degrees, to satisfy the retainers who would flock to the hall; a whole ox was therefore generally roasted over a fire built up of huge logs.

and the barons was an event in English history no less critical than the war between Charles I. and the parliament four centuries later; and British and Americans alike have every reason to be thankful that a great French army was not able to get across the channel in August, 1264.

The baron, the two Genoese, and the monk, had all been witnesses of the scene in the great square of Vévey.

The baron was a mighty man; the stroke was fierce, and his blade was keen and strong.

The great barons who thronged round him in his court had all been rebels; the younger among them had never known what order, government, or loyalty meant.

The petty baron was almost invariably a robbersometimes on his own account, often in some combined adventure of plunder.

The Baron was more than ever the evocation of the genius of elegance and order; he seemed carved out of some coloured ivory, behind whose white perfection burnt a shining resolute flame.

The feudal system by which every powerful baron became a petty sovereign, often at war with his neighbour, rendered it necessary that household treasures should be few and easily transported or hidden, and the earliest oak chests which are still preserved date from about this time.

Mrs. STANLEY appreciates humour, as the following anecdote will showBut, dear me, the Baron is forgetfulhe begs "Caspeg's" pardon; he mustn't quote.

The great Earl Warrenne, in a subsequent reign, when he was questioned concerning his right to the lands which he possessed, drew his sword, which he produced as his title; adding, that William the Bastard did not conquer the kingdom himself; but that the barons, and his ancestor among the rest, were joint adventurers in the enterprise

Anyway, living or dying, the Baron was a clever and plausible performance.

The baron is certainly not her uncle, as he represents himself to be, but it seems certain that she is the daughter of Anglo-Russian parents, and was born in Russia and brought to England when a child.

"The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court.

Though this baron was a worthy knight, justly esteemed of all his fellows, the damsel was grieved beyond measure when she knew her father's will.

The baron was a courtier and a placeman.

29 Metaphors for  baron