"Oh, Sandi!" called the headman of the boat, as she went lumbering over the clear green swell, "remember us, your servants!". From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
When a "headman" emerges in a hunter-gatherer group, it seems to be that sort of person most of the time. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
"Now tell us what you found," the headman demanded. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Finally, he turned his attention to the headman again. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
As the coming headman, should not his life be guarded?. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
At another stop I had a talk with the village headman. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
He sent for the headman and with him held a long shauri. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
The headman of the village is the only official of whom the. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Rs. 1-4 is paid to the headman, and the divorce is completed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The headman -- starosta -- must be hunted up to quarter officers and men. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The election and the duties of the headman have been dealt with heretofore. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
At the time, Lo was a platoon commander under the local Saohpa, or headman. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
Here we stop and call for the headman who gets his men to help us down the hill to the river. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The Mohtaria or headman goes from village to village to decide cases, and gets a share of the fine. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The district headman is the deputy of the tribal ward headman to whom he is immediately responsible. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Matele the name of a village headman in Bundelkhand, Piparvania from the pipal tree, Dadaria a singer. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Majhi, a headman; Behra, manager of the household; Amata, counsellor; and Dandsena, a police official. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He throws his present on a common pile in front of the headman, who distributes them among the villagers. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
The hundred horses left yesterday and the headman goes out to get them again for us to go on this evening. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The village headman advanced, bending forward from the waist and scraping first one foot and then the other. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
My verdict I gave in a look at the headman, and his confirmation of my unspoken thought was, "Yes; he's too quiet.". From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
And that's just fine with former headman Ai Seng, who cares little for either side, or for the job he left last year. From Wordnik.com. [Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East] Reference
Choflo, headman, sorcerer and oracle of the Cantanas, scanned the brassy sky and smote his breast with clenched fists. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Spanish Governor, who repeatedly expressed his admiration of it, hoping that the headman would make him a present of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The Wa villages hold "" rehab festivals, '' when the headman rounds up users in a temple or school, sometimes at gunpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Cold Turkey] Reference
For the same reason strangers on entering the kásgi offer a small present to the headman, who divides it among the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
Aguinaldo were on their way, and would require food and lodging, which were forthwith furnished by the headman to these 87 individuals. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He at once accepted the new situation under American dominion, and is headman of the Sámal tribal ward of Magay, a suburb of Zamboanga. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
"What do yez want?" called the tall man sternly, as he swept face to face with the foremost canoe in which stood a headman of the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
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