Having the true baronial spirit of the good old feudal times, they are apt now and then to issue forth from their castles on a foray, and to lay the plebeian fields of the neighbouring country under contribution; in the course of which chivalrous expeditions, they now and then get a shot from the rusty artillery of some refractory farmer.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Perhaps we ought also to except the baronial castle of Home.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
We do not find, on the Scottish borders, the splendid and extensive baronial castles, which graced and defended the opposite frontier.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott