Lordless

Sânkhya philosophy, in its original form, claims the name of an-î_s_vara, 'lordless' or 'atheistic' as its distinctive title. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Filmmaker Carl Rinsch has already traded acid-bleeding extraterrestrials for a pack of lordless samurai, but now he's adding some monsters to the mix once again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Based on a true 18th Century Japanese story, the film follows a band of samurai swordsmen who are shamed into becoming the titular ronin — a Japanese word meaning lordless samurai, and must avenge the death of their master. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You would make a fine Knight Errant, gallant and lordless. ❋ Edgreen86 (2006)

Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another with a lordless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among the dead that are no more. ❋ Unknown (2004)

About Sturmer the steadfast heroes will have no need to reproach me now that my lord has fallen, that I made my way home, and turned from the battle, a lordless man. ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)

The widows of the other heroes of the Bhoja, the Vrishni, and the Andhaka races, lordless now, that set out with Arjuna, numbered many millions. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Beholding those lordless widows escorted by Prithas son alone O Bharata, the robbers felt a great temptation (for plunder). ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Lord of the universe for their protector, were now lordless. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

The load that lay on them while lordless they lived ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

O Krishna, can be a greater grief to me than that my daughter of tender years should be a widow and all my daughters-in-law should become lordless. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

No longer, Orpheus, wilt thou lead the charmed oaks, no longer the rocks nor the lordless herds of the wild beasts; no longer wilt thou lull the roaring of the winds, nor hail and sweep of snowstorms nor dashing sea; for thou perishedst; and the daughters of Mnemosyne wept sore for thee, and thy mother Calliope above all. ❋ Anonymous (1902)

The chariots, turning in like manner upon their own friends, whirled about among them by no means harmlessly; it was a Homeric scene of 'rumbling tumbling cars'; when once the horses shied at those formidable elephants, off went the drivers, and 'the lordless chariots rattled on,' their scythes maiming and carving any of their late masters whom they came within reach of; and, in that chaos, many were the victims. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1894)

Did I not live even as a lordless man the while that ❋ Unknown (1893)

Finn to Hengest with oath, upon honor, openly promised that woful remnant, with wise-men's aid, nobly to govern, so none of the guests by word or work should warp the treaty, {16h} or with malice of mind bemoan themselves as forced to follow their fee-giver's slayer, lordless men, as their lot ordained. ❋ Anonymous (1887)

Kuru's lordless, lifeless forces shall be angry Arjun's food! ❋ Romesh Dutt (1878)

Finn to Hengest with oath, upon honor, openly promised that woful remnant, with wise-men’s aid, nobly to govern, so none of the guests by word or work should warp the treaty, 53 or with malice of mind bemoan themselves as forced to follow their fee-giver’s slayer, lordless men, as their lot ordained. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"lordless man, of whom no law can be got", and commendation was added to the forces which produced the disintegration of the tribal system. ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)