The Saites, under Tafnakhti or Bocchoris, soon got the upper hand, and it was to them that the Syrian vassals of Nineveh looked for aid, when death removed the conqueror who had trampled them so ruthlessly underfoot.
As it was, it was doomed to succumb--not so much to the superiority of the enemy as to the insubordination of its vassals and its own internal discords.
News was brought him about this time that Cynopolis and Aphroditopolis had at last thrown open their gates, and accordingly he summoned his vassals for the last time to his camp near Athribis.
Meanwhile, to the north of the Araxes, several chiefs had taken advantage of his being thus engaged in warfare in distant regions, to break the very feeble bond which held them vassals to Urartu.
The effect of his submission on his own vassals and the neighbouring tribes was shown in different ways.
The vassalshad their goods distrained, and were themselves thrown into prison.
They looked on this transfer of their seigneurial rights as a measure intended to sever their vassals from them, and thus to subjugate the whole island to the yoke of the English hierarchy.
Parliament of Aix; the Parliament ordered the lords of the lands occupied by the Vaudians to force their vassals to abjure or leave the country.
First must I inform my kindred andvassals of this thing.
The vassals of Kuno hastened to the gate to resist the expected attack, but there was none.
The cornfields, vineyards, and gardens of his vassals were oftentimes devastated in his sport, to the utter ruin of many.
This Siegfried was loath to hear, for he would have done battle for his friends, and it was with difficulty that Gunthers vassals could hold him back.
Arming my retainers, servants, and huntsmen, I seized my presumptuous vassals in the dead of night, and dragging them to the castle, I flung them into the deepest dungeons.
Meantime the vassals and retainers of the house of Rheinstein had been summoned to the castle to attend the approaching ceremony, and their gay apparel now shone and glittered in the sunshine.
If any dared complain he laughed at or reviled them; but if he were in angry mood he set his hounds on them and hunted his vassals as quarry, either killing them outright or leaving them terribly injured.
Brunhild survives, and is prevailed upon by her vassals to have her son crowned.
The Count of Flanders, the Count of Bar, the Duke of Burgundy, and the Marquis of Montferrat, brought all their vassals to swell the train, and in a very short space of time an effective army was on foot and ready to march to Palestine.
These took the field with such vassals as they could command, and in a very short time an army was raised amounting to two hundred thousand men.
The literary monk of St. Albans also describes the splendour of the feast, and the order of the service of the different vassals of the crown, many of whom were called upon at the coronation to perform certain peculiar services.
None of his great vassals came, as was customary at Christmas, to offer their congratulations.
These shall exercise superior power, do and administer justice equally to all our subjects and vassals and apply themselves to all that will promote the tranquillity, repose, ennoblement and pacification of these provinces.
Hamo de Crevecoeur, with the church vassals and the banner of St. Austin, had been gone some time.
The vassals were assembled in the great hall of Shurland Castle; every cheek was pale, every tongue was mute, expectation and perplexity were visible on every brow.
We are here doing homage to Him, and He will protect His truevassals and faithful people.
Every new Sultan builds himself a new house and lets his predecessors' palaces fall into decay, and as with the Sultan so with his vassals and officials.
His successors struggled vainly to control their vassals in Morocco, and to keep their possessions beyond its borders.
The Roman Senate made known to their friends and vassals that they had accepted Judaea as their ally, and the Syrian rulers were forbidden to attack it (140).
Judah was the most numerous and the mightiest of these tribes, and was joined by the children of Simeon, who subordinated themselves like vassals to a ruling tribe.
The vassals of the mighty Hadadezer then hastened to make peace with David.
The vassals build a funeral pyre, and place the body of Siegfried upon it.
After the midday halt, Siegfried tells Gunther and his vassals the story of his life.
The friend of humanity caught at this means of escape, supporting the proposal by the staggering argument that the Scripture, being the work of God himself, must outweigh necessarily all the operations or vassals of the devil.
The vassals are usually induced to sell themselves at a small price to the Author of Ill, who, having commonly to do with women, drives a very hard bargain.
But the Italian cities and the French vassals were divided and destroyed, while the union of the Germans has produced, under the name of an empire, a great system of a federative republic.
The conflagration spread over the provinces of Bavaria, Swabia, and Franconia; and the Hungarians promoted the reign of anarchy, by forcing the stoutest barons to discipline their vassals and fortify their castles.
Henry was the severe adversary of the Normans, the allies and vassals of Gregory the Seventh, his implacable foe.
A mercantile, rather than a martial, spirit prevailed among his provincials, a common name, which included the natives of Auvergne and Languedoc, the vassals of the kingdom of Burgundy or Arles.
The Alemanni, so formidable to the Romans, were the faithful vassals and confederates of the Franks; and their country was inscribed within the modern limits of Alsace, Swabia, and Switzerland.
Thus in 567, when one of the very small vassals (of whom the ruler of Lu was mesne lord) crushed the other, it is explained that the spirits will not spiritually eat the sacrifices (i.
Every potentate, great and small, little as he might like its application by his feudal over-lord to himself, was yet only too ready and willing to invoke its aid for the oppression of his own vassals or peasants.
He turned, and was lost to view; nor did any eye of his faithfulvassals look on him in life again.
The Prince's territories were small; his vassals proverbially lazy and peaceable; his treasury empty.
Penalties were inflicted upon villains or vassals who sported ringlets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vassals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
