Sentence examples for a chieftain in from inspiring English sources

Olaf, the great-grandson of the Norwegian king Harald I Fairhair and the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, a chieftain in southeastern Norway, was born soon after his father was killed by the Norwegian ruler Harald II Graycloak.

A chieftain in a traditional society may wear a headband of fur, feathers and the iridescent green carapaces of beetles, she said, "but all those carapaces are carefully lined up".

Chancellor gives a long speech explaining how a chieftain in a native tribe rebelled against the white men and paid a violent price for it, inspiring Chancellor to accommodate himself to the new reality and throw his lot in with the men with power — which is to say the guns, as opposed to spears.

"Man is made to adore and obey," Sidonia tells the young aristocrat, "but if you will not command him, if you will give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities and find a chieftain in his own passions".

The son of Sigurd Sow (Syr), a chieftain in eastern Norway, and of Estrid, mother of the Norwegian king Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), Harald fought at the age of 15 against the Danes with Olaf II in the celebrated Battle of Stiklestad (1030) in which Olaf was killed.

Chairing the event was Nana Ogyedon Tsetsewah, a chieftain in Gomoa Akyempim in Ghana's central region.

He played a mobster in "Gotti," a 1996 HBO film, and a Mafia chieftain in his final role in "Avenging Angelo," a movie still in production, with Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe.

In the eighth year of his reign, Thutmose learned of a revolt by a desert chieftain in Lower Nubia (in present-day Sudan).

Makes you look like you've killed a chieftain, although in fact it's a badger's tibia".

She believes that Daniel Defoe based Robinson Crusoe not on the lonely ordeal of Alexander Selkirk, a cantankerous buccaneer dumped by his shipmates on an island off Valparaiso in 1704, but on the mishaps of Robert Knox, a trader taken captive by a native chieftain in Ceylon in 1660.

Ravla Khempur, an equestrian hotel which was originally the palace of a tribal chieftain in the village of Khempur, was chosen as the site for the film hotel.