"Chieftain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at last effecting a junction with the Governor-General Lawrence, broke the investment of Trichinopoli, and released Mahomet Ali. Tchunda Sahib, in his turn shut up in Tcheringham, was delivered over to his rival by a Tanjore chieftain in whom he trusted; he was put to death; and the French commandant, a nephew of Law's, surrendered to the English. Two French corps had already been destroyed by Clive, who held the third army prisoners. Bussy was carrying on war in the Deccan, with ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... gray coat were the stars of a general officer. Even the hasty glance gained told me his identity—Beauregard. As this cavalcade turned at the corner of the house, I drew back, shadowed by the curtain, able thus both to see and hear. At the bottom of the steps the Confederate chieftain halted, ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... 'Chieftain, it was agreed we should give battle to thee alone, and it is harder for us to contend with yonder ...
— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... paradise, but of a small extent."—HAWKESWORTH: ib., p. 20. "A is an article, indefinite, and belongs to 'book.'"—Bullions cor. "The first expresses the rapid movement of a troop of horse over the plain, eager for the combat."—Id. "He [, the Indian chieftain, King Philip,] was a patriot, attached to his native soil; a prince, true to his subjects, and indignant of their wrongs; a soldier, daring in battle, firm in adversity, patient of fatigue, of hunger, of every variety of bodily suffering, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... stopped short in his thoughts, for there now at the court-room door stood Detricand, the Chouan chieftain. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
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