Tribal chief

Usage examples of chieftain.

Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, one of the largest contingents of the Achaean army, summons the chieftains to an assembly.

Not all the kings and chieftains of the Achaians followed the accords set down by Agamemnon, but the pressure did work.

From allover the island people came to give honor to the new battle chieftain and to gaze with curiosity upon the foreign-born berserker who could wield the shapeshifting magic of their ancestors.

CHAPTER XLVII THE PROMISED LAND One sunset, shortly after his marriage, word came to the tent of Kenkenes that an Amalekite chieftain on his way to Egypt had paused for the night just without the encampment of Israel.

So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.

One of the rival chieftains of the factions having fled for refuge to the missions, the people of Asuncion assembled troops to take him from his sanctuary by force.

Wad Mohammad, chieftain of the powerful Badawi clan, sat opposite Shabeli.

His indignation was kindled by the report, that a rival chieftain, that Sarus, the personal enemy of Adolphus, and the hereditary foe of the house of Balti, had been received into the palace.

Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column.

He secured Galatia by the mass murder of its chieftains, and has murdered at least one of the Cappadocian kings.

Samanide chieftains of Samarkand -- but few Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon coins.

The merchant carried himself with a haughty air, the youngest son of a Kwaklahmyn chieftain and only child of his third wife, the daughter of the wealthiest merchant in Vorgensburg, Cedarbird had inherited both wealth and influence.

In the 1860s, those high desert mountain fringes had been the ones where a canny Apache chieftain named Cochise had led his people in order to elude capture by the U.

Esther the prophetess, clashing her cymbals, danced before the Messiah of Israel, who leant upon his victorious scimitar, surrounded by Jabaster, Abner, Scherirah, and his chosen chieftains.

Cecil wore a frown of concentration and held his head cocked toward the six Dinka chieftains conversing several yards away, in their even, musical and slightly female voices.