Sentence examples for seigneur with from inspiring English sources

Henry, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is shown practicing his droit du seigneur with bodice-ripping relish, murmuring, "Do you consent?" without much anxiety.

At 70, Mr. Vargas Llosa's Trujillo is a man obsessed with his own declining health and sexual prowess -- a control freak, who likes to exercise his droit de seigneur with his followers' women; a bully practiced in the arts of rationalization and manipulation.

Look at Tolstoy who early on exercised his doit du seigneur with his serfs while ending his last days, abandoning his wife and dying in Astopovo railway station.

These new seigneurs, with no understanding of the informal habitant-seigneur relationship under French rule, frequently thought of themselves and acted as landed gentry in their dealings with the habitants.

Still, the faint whiff of droit du seigneur -- along with having read Mr. McCain's autobiography -- drove Mr. Moran from dutifully endorsing Governor Bush of Texas to embracing the underdog.

Almaviva cites precedent: it's his feudal droit du seigneur to sleep with a servant girl on her wedding night before her husband – even to me, that sounds dubious.

His performance did not really take off, though, until Act V, when Eléazar, condemned to death along with Rachel, sings, "Rachel, quand du seigneur," a disarming aria with a pair of forlorn English horns to buttress the plaintive vocal line.

Encyclopedic in detail, Lord Black's work is also packed with droit du seigneur conceit and abandon.

Here he begins with "La Nativite du Seigneur".

eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy, who exercised, with her husband, Pierre de Bourbon, seigneur de Beaujeu, a virtual regency in France from 1483 to 1491, during the early years of the reign of King Charles VIII.

The scene seemed to combine a Mafia don's behaviour with medieval droit de seigneur, quite unlike the home life of the puritanical men running other communist states in Europe at the time.