landamman

At dinner I was introduced to the landamman and two other members of the council, and from them gathered brief notes with reference to the little democracy won, and held intact for so many years.

Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

An old woman crossing the bridge on a bucking donkey, who threw her, he picked up obsequiously, not knowing but this fall might be a manoeuvre of state, and the precipitate take the form of the landamman in disguise: he had even the idea of running after the donkey, but the animal was already galloping with great relish outside the assigned limits to his diplomacy.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

He expected to meet some deputation from the Swiss cantons, with the great landamman at the head.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

Among its members we find an Erni Winkelried acting as a witness to a contract of sale on May 1, 1367; while the same man, or perhaps another member of the family, Erni von Winkelried, is plaintiff in a suit at Stanz, on September 29, 1389, and in 1417 is the landamman (or head-man) of Unterwalden, being then called Arnold

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Rodolphe de Reding, landamman de Schwitz et général des Confédérés, n'avait oublié aucun des avantages que lui offrit la situation des lieux.

Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860

He is cousin of the sons of Arnold Biederman the landamman of Unterwalden _ (alias_ Count Arnold of Geierstein).

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

A territory only two leagues long, and one league wide; and yet possessed of its independeiit ma - gistrates, its landamman, its council of regency,

A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794