Chieftain

Examples

• Was I not now a chieftain also! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• No longer are you my chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The speaker was a chieftain and he was giving orders to four of his warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But why, then, those arms and the regalia of a Tharkian chieftain? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He cannot strike the noble slumbering chieftain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas, was virtually the vice-chieftain of the community, and a man of great ability as a statesman and warrior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In truth, I was a Martian chieftain, and this I learned later was the cause of my great freedom and my toleration in the audience chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Good-bye, my chieftain that was. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• When Terkoz saw Tarzan approaching without his arrows, he continued to belabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• O my chieftain that was, and whom I thought dead, had you but returned one little hour before--but now it is too late, too late. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• There were few formalities observed in approaching the Martian chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Turning, I beheld the green warriors mounting the ridge and looking for their chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You are a great chieftain now, John Carter, she said, and I must do your bidding, though indeed I am glad to do it under any circumstances. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• His first act was to make me a full-fledged chieftain with the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks of my captivity among them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The assembled warriors and chieftains examined me closely, feeling my muscles and the texture of my skin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You are eleventh, there are but ten chieftains in this community who rank you in prowess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• All this, it seemed, had been the property of the two chieftains I had slain, and now, by the customs of the Tharks, it had become mine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• During this period my father gained great distinction as a warrior and had taken the metal from several chieftains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• On the second trip they were accompanied by ten or fifteen other women and youths, who, it seemed, formed the retinues of the two chieftains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Dak Kova, with his jeds and chieftains, sat at the center of one side of the arena upon a large raised platform. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The Highland militia, when it served under its own chieftains, had some advantage of the same kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Chieftains, how sounds, Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Chieftains, continued Lorquas Ptomel, shall the jeddak, Tal Hajus, prove his fitness to rule over Tars Tarkas? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Each community has its own jed and lesser chieftains, but all are under the rule of Tal Hajus, Jeddak of Thark. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Sola also accompanied Tars Tarkas, her father, who before all his chieftains had acknowledged her as his daughter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• One evening a numerous assembly of Greek chieftains were gathered together in the palace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My mother was rather small, in fact too small to be allowed the responsibilities of maternity, as our chieftains breed principally for size. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince their loyal homage and the kiss of peace. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They sent a council of fifty chieftains to talk with me here, replied the Thark. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Edited by Dwight