They hop the curb and cut their engines.

That in the cale where the Teind was set separately from the Stock, the Duty was commonly far above the true Value of what was paid for the Teind

We'd have our morning skate and then I would have the black aces stay out, the guys that weren't gonna dress.

Castellans, often exercising control over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control.