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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they too posed a threat, for there were few of his vassals whom he could trust.
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He was a vassal , as indeed his father had been forty years earlier.
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If his creditors allowed him to be, he would be their vassal for life.
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Since he was already a papal vassal Sancho found the powers of the Church difficult to check.
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The whistle was lord; they were all vassals.
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Theoretically they should follow the lead of the Warbutt if he commands them; they are his vassals.
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Why are employees treated as vassals by the pension funds?
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Yet even with vassals of the same class, there might be differences.