So successours to Peter be they nought Whom [that] Christ made cheef pastour; A swerd no shep[h]erde usen ought But he wold slee as a bochour.
For I am brydled unto sobernesse For her, that is of women cheef princesse.
Fyr is cheef werker in fortheringe sustenaunce to mankynde.
Also Pauly[n] of Rome was crowned, that by him the maynteyners of Pompeus weren knowen and distroyed; and yet 20 toforn was this Paulyn cheef of Pompeus counsaile.
Fynd me any good, but-if this knotte be the cheef cause.
Pees is the cheefof al the worldes welthe, And to the heven it ledeth eek the way; Pees is of soule and lyfe the mannes helthe 80 Of pestilence, and doth the werre away.
By Mars, that is the cheef of my bileve, So that I mighte liven and nat faile 2110 To-morwe for tacheve my bataile, I nolde never fro this place flee, Til that ye shuld the verray preve see.
And ever in love a cheef traitour he was; And wedded yit the thridde wyf anon, 1660 That was the doghter of the king Creon.
Them I telled him how that the Constetushin sed that he was "Commander-in-Cheef of the Army and Navy," and that that made him a Ginneral and a Commydore.
It's a disrespect to the Cheef Majestrate not to do it.
The crowd didn't cheer Androo much, but when Farragut was trotted out they gave him a rouser, wich wuz anything but pleasin to the Cheef Magistrate uv this nashen, who bleeves in bein respected.
The Governor welcomed him, but he welcomed him ez the Cheef Magistrate uv the nashen, and happened to drop in Lincoln's name.
I'm a perceshun a waitin here to do honor to ourCheef Magistrate, all alone, sir.
Henry I, which recites a custom of that time, by which "the bishops and erls, with other the cheef men of the county, were present in the county court az assistants in directory of judgement.
Insted of mercenary soldiers, barons here meens the comites, retainers, who were chosen men, and who served their cheef voluntarily.
The New England colonies were originally guverned by a cheef magistrate or guvernor, a deputy, and a certain number of assistants, all chosen by the peeple.
By hiz own account of the matter, this writer supposes the trial by twelv waz originally a trial by the cheef men, (thanes lahmen) and the idea of equality waz never suggested in the practice till the ninth or tenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheef" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
