chiefs

• Notwithstanding the earnest appeal of Phœnix, their errand proves fruitless Thus the Trojans indeed kept guard: but a mighty[290] Flight, the companion of chill Fear, seized upon the Greeks; and all the chiefs were afflicted with intolerable grief. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• All the chiefs were there, dressed up for the occasion, and what delighted them more than anything else was the fact that the Krishnos, the former witch doctors of the tribes, and who were now the teachers for the children, were the first to offer congratulations on their return There was no work in the town that day. —  The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands
• He tells us that whenever one of the chiefs is about to commence an undertaking, he selects some unhappy victim, who is forthwith slaughtered and sacrificed. —  The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
• The chiefs, for such they were, came forward, and with some interest asked numerous questions in their native tongue, and soon there commenced a most affectionate rubbing of noses all round, and Vihala discovered with great satisfaction that the chiefs were his own relatives, who had left their native island some years previously, and were supposed to have been lost. —  The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
• Among the chiefs was the youth Piskaret, who, although he had but just reached his twentieth summer, was, as I have before said, counted the strongest, the wisest, and, by anticipation, the bravest, man of the nation. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)

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