The chief and head-men said they had had nothing to do with the capture of the Cascades, with the murder of men at the upper landing, nor with the massacre of men, women, and children near the block-house, and put all the blame on the Yakimas and their allies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Although the chiefs and head-men were well-nigh unanimous in ratifying these concessions, it was discovered in the spring of 1868 that many of the young men were bitterly opposed to what had been done, and claimed that most of the signatures had been obtained by misrepresentation and through proffers of certain annuities, and promises of arms and ammunition to be issued in the spring of 1868. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now when the news of this reached Kanmakan by the merchants, he returned in haste to Baghdad on the back of the aforesaid stallion, and as King Sasan sat perplexed upon his throne he heard of the coming of Kanmakan; whereupon he despatched all the troops and head-men of the city to meet him. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And while he so did, all the palace-people and head-men marvelled at the beauty of the stallion and said, “No King is like unto this man.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Along with each Assistant Resident is a Controller, a kind of inspector of all the lower native rulers, who periodically visits every village in the district, examines the proceedings of the native courts, hears complaints against the head-men or other native chiefs, and superintends the Government plantations. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is interesting to observe that since the original Crossroads committee was elected in 1988 no further elective processes for head-men have taken place. ❋ Unknown (1993)
Within a quarter of an hour, the head-men of the town had met in hasty conference and debated whether to run or to fight. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (1977)
Accordingly, they requested the visiting chiefs to call together the head-men of the tribe in a friendly council at the "Watauga Old Fields." ❋ Various (N/A)
Among the sachems and other head-men, he was what may well be styled a "power behind the throne;" and as it is well known that this unseen power is often "greater than the throne itself," it may reasonably be presumed that Girty's influence was in reality all which it is supposed to have been. ❋ Cecil B. Hartley (N/A)
Of these men it will be necessary to say more hereafter: here I need only remark that they have now gathered in the council-house, with many of the principal warriors and head-men of the Ottari Cherokees, and that the present fate of civilization in the ❋ Various (N/A)
Besides these head-men we had several minor sheikhs with us, and two soldiers sent by the mamour from his garrison at Mohammed Gol to see that we were well treated. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)
"The town was besieged: -- the head-men were on the point of escaping: -- resistance was vain: -- they had been betrayed -- there were no fighters to defend the stockade!" ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Here they met to celebrate the green-corn dance and their other national ceremonials; and here the king and half-king and the princes and head-men of the various towns consulted together on important occasions, such as making peace or declaring war. ❋ Various (N/A)
During two hours, an uninterrupted procession of all the warriors, chiefs, and head-men of Jallica, defiled in front of the ancient drum-major; and, as each approached, he made his obeisance by pointing ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
The young brave explains that the chief of the pale-faces has come down the great war-path to an outlying town to see the head-men of the ❋ Various (N/A)
The formalities being over, the inquisitive head-men crowded round the presents with as much eagerness as aspirants for office at a presidential inauguration. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Accordingly, I "dashed," or presented him and his head-men a few pieces of cottons, with some pipes, beads, and looking-glasses, by way of whet for the appetite of to-morrow. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Fortune had been kind to him in most respects: she had given him wealth and power amongst men, and the fickle goddess had bestowed upon him two wives, but alas! no offspring, and to seek for a remedy for this, to a savage, overwhelming disaster, he came with his head-men to the tent of the European medicine men. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)
There are high ruined castles, destroyed by the present sultan, as Al Ma'a and its head-men were once in revolt. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)
[I just] [picked up] some "Red Head Men" they're [delicious]. ❋ BrokenDragon (2015)
