masterless in a sentence
Examples
- These vague suspicions became concrete when in February 1623 one of the Japanese mercenary soldiers ( ronin, or masterless samurai in the employ of the VOC ) was caught in the act of spying on the defenses of the fortress Victoria.
- Asahara spent his early 20s as a " ronin, " or masterless samurai _ the term used to describe students who attend private " cram schools " to prepare for college-entrance exams which they have failed previously.
- As the rebellion spread, it was joined by rMnin ( masterless samurai ) who once had served families, such as the Amakusa and Shiki, who had once lived in the area, as well as former Arima clan and Konishi retainers.
- But the situation goes from bad to worse when General Kenobi is listed missing in action, and Anakin is teamed with a group of other Masterless young Jedi on a doomed mission to hold the last line in the Republic's defense!
- The "'samurai film "'hence often focuses on the end of an entire way of life for the samurai : many of the films deal with masterless ronin, or samurai dealing with changes to their status resulting from a changing society.
- He also mentions'Bay, Kaze's love, who was also killed, and tells the story of Kaze, a masterless samurai warrior who, driven by honor, transcends mortal life to avenge the murders of a royal family in a distant world s feudal past.
- Stunned that a different warrior has ridden through the fire, Brynhild demands to know whether, " Gunnar, " is the masterless warrior she has vowed to wed . " Gunnar " reminds her that, as her oath has been fulfilled, she is doomed to wed him.
- The result was groups of vagabonds emerging in the countryside threatening social order, who were described at the time as " masterless men . " In 1842 the village witnessed the earliest signs of violence from the protesters, which led the village to become the epicentre of protest in North Essex.
- The districts were walled and guarded for taxation and access control . " RMnin ", masterless samurai, were not allowed in and neither were the prostitutes let out, except to visit dying relatives and, once a year, for " hanami " ( viewing cherry blossoms ).
- In this film, the actor Toshiro Mifune plays a similar character to Sanjuro, the ronin ( masterless samurai ) in Akira Kurosawa's famous film " The Ronin with No Name, and the idea of the two iconic jidaigeki characters confronting each other . ( Machibuse, made in the same year, also stars Mifune in a role similar to that of Yojimbo .)