Lit-lit quickly found that married life with the head-man of a fort was even better than she had dreamed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Him she remembered -- Klakee-Nah, the head-man of the village, the friend of the missionaries and the traders, a large man thewed like a giant, with kindly eyes and masterful ways, and striding with a consciousness of crude royalty in his carriage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'm the head-man around yere, but I ain't been yere but about a year. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A perfect head-man pass from defenseman Rob Scuderi sprung Crosby into the offensive zone, where he split two defensemen and got a shot on net. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At 12, Joe was taken into a local orphanage and the head-man taught him trade skills that led to his first job. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the second period, Briere took a nifty head-man pass from Pominville and beat Ward with a backhander as he drove toward the crease. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Down 1-0 and having struggled to find their rhythm against Nashville, the Red Wings finally got comfortable when center Kris Draper scored 37 seconds into the third after taking a head-man pass from Kirk Maltby. ❋ Unknown (2004)
To be the head-man of any other village, and the captain of its fishing fleet, might prove no lofty eminence; but to be the leader of Springhaven was true and arduous greatness. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Alick, the shepherd and head-man, with the ruddy face and broad shoulders, not on the best terms with old Kester; indeed, their intercourse was confined to an occasional snarl, for though they probably differed little concerning hedging and ditching and the treatment of ewes, there was a profound difference of opinion between them as to their own respective merits. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Kaya I found that both he and another head-man had gone out for the day, and on inquiring the reason was told that they could not persuade any of their men to go with me because the journey was long and fatiguing one. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Major or head-man of Licoupang, with a dozen natives and about twenty dogs. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sun was high in the sky before the head-man, whose business it was, came to look at the date tree, expecting to find it stripped of all its fruit, but when he saw the dates so thick that they almost hid the leaves he ran back to his house, and beat a big drum till everybody came running, and even the little children wanted to know what had happened. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And the head-man went to the palace and told the sultan what he had seen. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then the others went to the bailiff, and told him that the head-man was still lying in bed, and would not go into the wood with them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The head-man, however, said as before, “Just go there, I shall be back again before any of you.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Dhiab, the vulgar head-man of another faction, had declared for ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
When the sun rose, the head-man came and looked for the dates, and there were no dates. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Is your head-man a good person, and true to our interest? ❋ Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (1993)
The head-man halted them once more at the edge of the clearing. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
Umbate, the head-man, who had visited the mission station, explained what he had seen in the smith's shop there. ❋ David J. Deane (N/A)
