over-lords

Updated: June 29, 2025

If they shall say: Behold, He is in the desert, go not forth; behold. XXI. Again, obedience is the duty of subjects, that they direct all their diligence and effort to do and to leave undone what their over-lords desire of them, that they do not allow themselves to be torn or driven from this, whatever another do.

Martin Luther - Works of Martin Luther: With Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

But since Louvain, Termonde, and Rheims, not to speak of the unnameable iniquities of Liège, the world knows where the barbaric spirit of Europe had its central home in Berlin, not in Petrograd; in the proud hearts of the German over-lords, not the meek ones of the Russian peasantry.

Sir Hall Caine - The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days : Scenes In The Great War