It is well,' the Chieftain answered, 'Daughters with the eyes of springtime And the faces of the flowers, It is well.
Then the scouts, or those still living, Fled to tell their wickedChieftain Where to find the fleeing Tamals.
We shall die, oh, my beloved,' Said the Chieftain to the maiden.
Thus they reasoned in their council, Then they stood before the people While the Chieftain gave his orders.
On the shoulder of the Chieftain She was carried, for no other Had such strength and gentle manner.
He knew the temper of the chieftain well, and knew him patient and forgiving, but knew him also unrelenting in his hate, when his anger was aroused.
So saying, the irritated Chieftain turned on his heel, and strode away, pausing to collect his arms, when he disappeared in the thicket.
So great, indeed, was their height, that it has been affirmed, that when their chieftain was seated at table these dogs could rest their heads on his shoulders.
John said he could not possibly get to the hill next morning, but if he would take him to the very spot where he lost the sheep, perhaps his dog Chieftain would find her that night.
Of the origin of the fort I could learn little, save from an inscription over the arched entrance, from which it appears to have been built by the son of an old and influential Albanian chieftain about 200 years ago.
Universal as was the partisan warfare in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there was no chieftain who had supported the brunt of so many onslaughts as Ali Aga.
It was with a sigh of relief that their chieftain saw the party disappear about a headland a short distance up-river.
Hairy monsters were overcoming his fighting men, and a black chieftain like himself was fighting shoulder to shoulder with the hideous pack that opposed him.
The Wyandots, as you have already learned, were among the fiercest enemies of the settlers, and the painted faces of the chieftain and his son made it look as if the latter was on his first war path.
The boys rose to their feet, and the smiling chieftain shook hands with both.
Such a severe punishment as thechieftain gave to his son could not, in the nature of things, last long.
It was a trying ordeal for Will to stand motionless while these two aborigines drew nigh, but he recalled what Jack had told him about his meeting with the chieftain Hua-awa-oma, and his wrestling bout with Arowaka, his son.
The things I needed, because of the delicacy of my constitution, as compared with theirs, I secured through the chieftain from a band of Arabian merchants.
This was all very well so far as it went, but the chieftain was careful to keep me concealed from the Arabs.
She asked him whether he had been among cannibals, whether he had shot any savages, whether he had hunted lions, and whether it was really true that every Negro chieftain had hundreds of wives.
That valiant chieftain came fearlessly on at the head of a phalanx of oyster-fed Pavonians and a corps de reserve of the Van Arsdales and Van Bummels, who had remained behind to digest the enormous dinner they had eaten.
They had an Arab chieftain on board as a guide, and on him the party had depended for direction to the place where the fountain of Feshkah was to be found.
At the same time they sent forward an Arab chieftain of the party, to reconnoitre and learn more particularly the character of the enemy.
He informed them that he had been kindly received at Kerak, and he brought down an invitation to Lieutenant Lynch, from the chieftain that ruled there, to come up to the valley and make him a visit.
This renowned chieftain aided Montezuma's foes to triumph, and in turn fastened the shackles of European despotism on all alike, with a partial exception in favor of brave Tlascala.
Powers supernatural are joined to powers temporal, and embodied in the chieftain of the nation.
A more famous chieftain is the subject of a similar belief in the Vale of Gwent.
So the years passed on, and in time Dermot's father died, and the young man becamechieftain of his clan.
Her father was the chieftainof a clan, and she was his only child.
The young chieftain stood looking at the strange scene before him, with his heart beating high and fast.
The young chieftain took up the beast, looked at it, and with all his might flung it from him into the lough; then turning round, he stretched his arms out passionately.
Descending from it at the foot of the steps, a passage was made through the crowd, and the tall white head of the old chieftain went steadily up.
He draws a battle map of Quebec, shows where Montgomery fell, and relates how he, Colonel Burr, bore that dead chieftain from the field.
A chieftain has just left me with the complaint: 'My village is in ruins, my women are killed.
If a chieftain refuses, it is war, and this horrible war--perfect firearms against spear and lance.
The feudal chieftain worried lest this spaceboat be it.
How else can a gentleman live, if he has no chieftain to give him presents?
Thal explained that it was a feudal chieftain on his way to the spaceport town.
So the chieftain over there accepted a present of money from them, and gave them horses as a return gift, and sent them here with a guard.
The chieftain gave land, the Miao contributed one hundred pounds sterling, and themselves put up a chapel large enough to accommodate six hundred people.
When they were finished, the chieftain took his hand and drew him to the door.
The chieftain of the Folk, he who had first discovered Garin, entered, followed by several of his fellows.
Verna could not help noticing that the two men, standing upright together, were of exactly the same height and build, the savage chieftain and the up-to-date English gentleman.
Public curiosity was still alive to see the renowned but fallen chieftain of the famous Black Hawk war.
Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him.
One battle decided the fate of half the world--it might be lost or won for a woman's eyes; the flight of a chieftain might settle the fate of a province; a campaign might determine the allegiance of half Asia.
They are believed to hold a fourth of the authority that pertains to the chieftain of the village.
After all, he was still the chieftain of the Protestant Union, and, although Eldest Son of the Church, was the bitter antagonist of the League and the sworn foe to the House of Austria.
The treaty was made, and from that time forth the antagonism between the eminent statesman and the great military chieftain became inevitable.
The Republican chieftaincarefully observed the effect of the popular commotion on his own and the opposite party.
The indefatigable Republican chieftain had been busily inspiring attacks upon the conduct of the mission and particularly upon Marshall.
At news of this, the fast-weakening New York Federalist chieftain became frantic.
But the New York Federalist chieftain conferred only with those who were as blinded by hate as he was himself.
Yet the answer of this youth to the "treacherous devils," as he calls them in his private record of the day, was as bland and diplomatic as that of Indian Chieftain bred to hypocrisy and deceit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chieftain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
