"Chief" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comparison with the laws passed by the legislature in the following May. Governor Talcott, tolerant toward all religious dissenters, had recently died, and the conservative Jonathan Law of Milford was in the chair of the chief magistrate. Governor Law had grown up among the traditions of that narrow ecclesiasticism which had always marked the territory of the old New Haven Colony. Moreover, the measures of the Consociation had been futile. One of ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.
... It was sent by the chief surgeon of a field-hospital; and it was dated from a village in the north ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... he obtained the rank of the greatest of all the gods. Former Buddhas who had lived in former ages still lived as gods; and the divine family, being once founded, admitted of various additions; even a popular deity, such as Indra, could be joined to the growing circle. The chief scenes of the life of the founder became holy places and objects of pilgrimage, where relics were exposed for adoration. The growth of legend and of magic proceeded more rapidly, and went to greater lengths, in Northern than in Southern Buddhism; but in the land of its birth, too, Buddhism ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies
... that it was her duty to send for a doctor. "My dear Mrs. Tiralla," he said, "invoking divine help is certainly—h'm"—he cleared his throat, those wide-open, staring eyes made him quite confused—"divine help is certainly the chief thing, but human help is not to be dispensed with. Your husband seems very ill, really dangerously ill, why won't you have a doctor? You must ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... The chief was consulted and asked by signs whether the attacking party from the north side was his own people, and he shook his head in the negative. This proved, beyond doubt, that at least three different people inhabited the island to ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay
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