What is "chieftainship"

Usage examples of "chieftainship".

From the point of view of his thousand years of samurai breeding, her lineage appeared to be only a couple of centuries of Hunnish chieftainship.

All the bulls were watching the two claimants for the chieftainship, but some of them were ranging themselves closer to Kru than to Tant.

Deacon Ursuline and her people had been industrious in the weeks since he had taken the chieftainship of Rikin.

She had taken the chieftainship when the tribe was tiny, and she just a short time beyond her girlhood.

She knew she was made for the chieftainship, and the chieftainship for her.

It was clear now that the long line of the chieftainship, which could be traced back into the remote days of cocoon life, was destined to be broken.

No doubt you got that way, Nialli Apuilana supposed, when you held the chieftainship for forty years: time made you hard, narrow, singleminded.

She is entering it in the chronicles, finally, on the topmost blank page, that on the day such-and-such in the year such-and-such of the Coming Forth great changes came about, for on that day the revered chieftain Taniane resigned her office and with her the chieftainship of ancient days at last was brought to an end for all time, and the first of the kings and queens of the city were chosen, who would preside over all that must be done in the aftermath of the great and terrible war with the hjjks.

Just the thought of being forced to accept the tedious responsibilities of chieftainship made him go cold all over.

The chieftainship was first held by Key, but when he went outside he appointed Sergeant A.

But he was always a general in administrative ability, and a bull-dog in courage and determination-- otherwise the chieftainship over the lawless underlings of the overland service would never in any instance have been to him anything but an equivalent for a month of insolence and distress and a bullet and a coffin at the end of it.

It is not for nothing that since pre-Christian times his family had exercised chieftainship over unchartered miles of barren moorland.

An heir presumptive in direct line of succession to the clan chieftainship staffed a yacht or a plane.

However, at almost the same time as he took the chieftainship of the Matabele, two seeds were sown that would soon grow into great creeping vines that would choke and finally bring the fat bull of Kumalo crashing to earth.

A cacique, however, was raised up to his position through deeds of merit or special abilities, and his chieftainship died with him.