lordless

His unshaven pate marked him as a lordless man: a ronin.

Wandering, lordless samurai such as himself were the worst: they not only raped, but also robbed and killed on the slightest pretext.

And she will need them all, for a ronin, a lordless samurai-Tosa no Hanshiro, has been hired to trail her.

Gulika and Mandi can be mapped to Saturn's portion or the lordless 8th portion.

And they had no king among them, for their kings had perished, and they were lordless and unguided.

Elsewhere are Darry men left lordless and lawless, packs of four-footed wolves, and the lightning lord's outlaw bands.

And her, left lordless by that ended fray, Our lord beholding loved, and hailed, and crowned Queen.

The heart is qualified with "mehandihe chakim soltan ui le mule" ("ungoverned, kingless and lordless", v. 3).

Storn's men were obeying orders and were not entirely responsible for what they must do-too much sympathy for the lordless Hammerfell tenants and they would share their fate.

In the wake of the Matsukura clan's construction of a new castle at Shimabara, taxes were drastically raised, which provoked anger from local peasants and lordless samurai (ronin).

In order to achieve the objectives that the Shugoshoku position entailed, Katamori made use of city patrol units, some of them made up of his own retainers, but others consisting of hired, previously lordless men, such as the Shinsengumi.

Shō Hashi did not effect drastic dramatic changes upon this system, but reinforced it as part of his unification efforts; aji were made to owe their allegiance to his royal government at Shuri, rather than becoming lordless rebels or the like upon the defeat and absorption of their kingdom.

When Count Gerlach V unexpectedly died in 1259 leaving a young wife, who soon thereafter gave birth to a daughter, Agnes, the Counts of Veldenz who had descended from the Emichones died out in the male line, leading the count's surviving kin to covet this now apparently "lordless" holding.