The kervanbashi, who had already been pillaged twice, no sooner heard the words Tekke and ataman than he gave the order to beat a retreat.
He told her how they had looked for her at first; how Skshetuski, without knowing of the duel, had sought Bogun as far as Pereyaslav; how finally Jendzian gained the secret of her concealment from the ataman and brought it to Zbaraj.
The ataman also remained silent, and in the room a fly on the wing could be heard.
The ataman howled like a werewolf, and before daylight had himself bound between horses, and rushed off toward Lubni, but did not find them; then he rushed in another direction.
The Grand Hetman has sent ourataman to the prince to ask for assistance; so he has gone to Lubni, and he has commanded us to go along through the villages to catch deserters.
Nothing remained then for the unfortunate ataman but to withdraw with all speed to Krivonos; but the task was not easy.
The other, Anton Tatarchuk, ataman of the Chigirin kuren, was a man about forty years old, tall, with a wild expression of face and oblique Tartar eyes.
Oh, he is an old sot who used to hang around our ataman in Chigirin and pretend to be his best friend.
You are the next ataman to me, and since you are willing to go, you will become first ataman yet over the Cossacks, good hero, for you are not afraid of Yeremi.
We will take him with us to Kamenyets, and there our ataman will play with him.
God arranged that War, the stern mother, called away the wildataman from the fastnesses to which like a wolf he had carried his plunder.
And it seems to me, father, that the ataman is going from Kamenyets to Yampol.
But Sinbad, being a man of humane temper, thinks that the sport has gone far enough, and appeals to the Ataman to stop it.
The younger is the Ataman himself; the elder is his father, an old soldier of the first campaigns of Nicholas.
The burghers kept the word artel; they translated ataman into elder (starost); and in every minor detail they copied their original, rule by rule.
All officers above the rank of ataman and judge are now appointed by the crown, as such men are in every branch of the public force.
Their hetman has been abolished; their grand ataman is the crown prince; but his work is wholly nominal, and they elect their own atamans and judges for a limited term.
If the atamanshould hear of it, we might get into a scrape, and they also.
The ataman might detain them; then, when would they get to Tiflis?
Did we not intend to take them either to the ataman or to the custom house?
Ataman Kalmakoff had that morning announced to me his intention to leave my front and make a wide detour on the right behind the hills, and join his Cossack friends at Iman.
After consultation with Captain Stephan, Czech commander, and Ataman Kalmakoff, commanding the Cossacks, I decided to take the necessary steps to destroy this recently formed outpost.
Ataman Semianoff had for some time been kept by the Japanese in reserve for such an occasion.
Ataman Kalmakoff was at Vladivostok, and his second in command was dismissed on his return for refusing to obey my orders, as the Ataman was most anxious that his men should be always in the fighting line wherever it might be.
Count Platof was the last ataman of the Cossacks, and he owed the authority he was allowed to enjoy, in a great measure to the peculiar circumstances in which he was placed by the wars of the empire.
If he is successful he takes the ataman place, and holds it until some one else dislodges him.
When an actual raid by the police is planned, the ataman generally gets wind of it beforehand, and all lights are put out before the police arrive.
They live there in dirty little cabins and underground caves, a close community with itsataman and common funds.
Two days later we were approaching the shore of the River Uri when we met two Russian riders, who were the Cossacks of a certain Ataman Sutunin, acting against the Bolsheviki in the valley of the River Selenga.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ataman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
