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Example sentences for "another tribe"

  • Similarly among the Waheia, another tribe of the same region, if a man kills or eats the totemic animal of his clan, he is supposed to suffer from an eruption of the skin.

  • Among the Wahehe, another tribe of German East Africa, a man who suffers from scab or other skin disease will often set the trouble down to his having unwittingly partaken of his totemic animal.

  • Among the Bassari, another tribe of Togoland, no man may eat of the new yams until the people have paid a tribute of the first-fruits to the king.

  • When a Nandi of East Africa has killed a member of another tribe, he paints one side of his body, spear, and sword red, and the other side white.

  • Similar customs are observed by the Apoyaos, another tribe in the interior of Luzon.

  • Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a diminishing of our inheritance.

  • Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

  • For he of whom these things are spoken is of another tribe, of which no one attended on the altar.

  • He can marry a woman of another tribe, even when she belongs to a gens corresponding to his own, as she is not a real kinswoman.

  • An Omaha Hañga man can marry a Kansas Hañga woman, because she belongs to another tribe.

  • But he can marry an Omaha Wasabe-hit`ajĭ woman, as she belongs to another tribe.

  • When a Nandi of British East Africa has killed a member of another tribe, he paints one side of his body, spear, and sword red, and the other side white.

  • I know not how he comes to be with our friend here, for he belongs to another tribe; I have seen him before.

  • War–Eagle then proceeded to explain how Wingenund, in returning from the turkey–pen, had caught a glimpse of a distant figure, whom he knew at a glance to belong to another tribe.

  • And if he is a member of another tribe, the vengeance may be wreaked upon his fellow-tribesmen indiscriminately.

  • In some parts of Morocco, if a man is not powerful enough to avenge an infringement on his marriage-bed, he leaves seven tufts of hair on his head and goes to another tribe to ask for help.

  • Another tribe of larvae, not very numerous, content themselves for their habitations with simple holes, into which they retire occasionally.

  • A few families of Beni Amer, (or Aamer, [The Beni Aamer must not be confounded with Amer, another tribe of Harb.

  • In the opposite mountains, to the east, live the Beni Owf, another tribe of Harb.

  • Another tribe of the same nation, the Zapotecs of Tehuantepec, are rather under the medium height, with a pleasing oval face and present a fine personal appearance.

  • Especially particular as to rank are the chiefs in choosing their first wife, always preferring the daughters of noble families of another tribe.

  • Thus, if an individual of a certain tribe dies, his relatives consider that his death has been caused by sorcery on the part of another tribe.

  • And as with the members of another tribe, so with the relation of the tribe to the gods.

  • When a member of one tribe inflicts an injury upon a member of another tribe, retaliation on any one of the group to which the offending person belongs will suffice.

  • Before a youth can marry he must lay at the feet of his bride elect, the head of some one belonging to another tribe, killed by himself.

  • If a man perishes of disease, at a distance from his friends, his death is supposed to have been caused by some sorcerer of another tribe, whose life must be taken for satisfaction.

  • It is practised also by the Bakaua, another tribe of German New Guinea, who inhabit the coast of Huon Gulf, not far from the Kai.

  • M173) The Miamis, another tribe of North American Indians, tell a tale in which the spirit of the corn figures as a broken-down old man.

  • In the tract where the Baigas live, they, as the most ancient residents, are usually the priests of the indigenous gods; but in Jubbulpore the same office is held by another tribe, the Bharias.

  • Outsiders are not usually admitted, but if a Bhaina forms a connection with a woman of another tribe, they will admit the children of such a union, though not the woman herself.

  • It may be bought from the confines of another tribe, and it is sold to foreigners.

  • Any amount of overreaching and deception is practised toward foreigners in a trade, or to members of another tribe; and many foreigners are just as guilty in their dealings with the natives.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "another tribe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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