I will have a code of laws and constitution to suit my particular humor, and my chief penalties shall be inflicted upon your fellows who grunt.
Perhaps, to provoke this anxiety in one it loves, is the chief desire of such a spirit.
He communicated the result to the chief constable, who issued an order that the next time anyone answering to that description was sighted his photographic permit was to be demanded and inspected.
He nodded, and made another entry in his notebook, then, dismissing them courteously, rang up his chief on the telephone.
I always contend that one of the chief elements in a good sitter is imagination, so as to maintain the right expression.
He wrote a note at once to the Chief Constable, to tell him where the telephone wires were cut, and sent the office boy to deliver it.
The chief bone of contention was the bar between seniors and juniors.
Vivien's sharp tongue was Lorraine's chief thorn in the flesh at The Gables.
The Chief is a pleasant fellow perfectly willing to sell us food for our party; and monkeys, tortoises or anything else we may desire for ourselves.
The Chief therefore, told his son he was to give no trouble to the authorities and tried to comfort him by saying he would see the railway and Boma and the great ships which went to Europe.
However, where there is a village the Chief comes on board and presents a chicken.
These are carried out by Captain Sparrow and Mr. Wright the chief Congo pilot with the aid of a most ingenious sounding machine.
One of them was the son of the Chief of a large village at which we stopped, who thus had the mortification of seeing his heir working "on the chain.
Every Post, however big or small, has its State flag and every chief official, from the Governor to the chiefof a Wood Post, has a sentry at his door.
On September 22nd we reach the Kuangu river where is situated the chief post of a French Trading Company.
Thus early one of the chief difficulties in the Congo the transport of goods--is demonstrated.
The people seem idle, contented and happy, the chief industry being fishing and net-making.
Having walked through the village we return to our camp on the river bank and the Chief presents spears.
Soon after the train stops at a station where the natives have assembled to sell fruit and kwanga, a kind of bread made from the flour of the manioc root and the chief article of native diet.
We reach the Post on the morning of September 26th and are met by Captain Auita, an Italian, who is the Zone Chief here.
A few monkeys and parrots chatter overhead and an occasional pigeon coos, but the chief forms of animal life here, are thousands of the most lovely butterflies.
She herself was to be the chief of that important band, to which sundry male recruits in the shape of small boys were to be added by way of pages.
They came at last to the end of it; and the chief turned to me savagely.
Carlo," cried the chief at once, "see the fines are collected, and we will be off and take him with us.
The chief will be here directly," he answered, with a peculiar smile; "he will tell you himself.
Our chief has fined each first-class passenger a hundred dollars; second-class passengers fifty dollars.
My lieutenant here," the chief proceeded, "has no doubt acquainted you with my wishes.
What on earth made you hand that poor devil of a brigand chief that box of cigars, Jack?
Our chief requires that you shall give that packet up to him.
Every child wants to take the most prominent part in a game, but all cannot be chief mourners, else there will be no sympathising weepers.
There was an old woman, and what do you think, She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never keep quiet.
The chief delight of the youngsters playing "Here comes a poor sailor," is in putting and answering questions.
Roger's chief assets were earnestness of purpose and absolute dependability.
Loss of privileges and confinement to the company street were his chief crosses.
Ordered at last to halt before one of them, their conductors marched them up a flight of four wooden steps, and through an open door into a long, bare room, the chief furnishing of which consisted of two rows of narrow canvas cots.
When Sir John Coleridge, father of the late Lord Chief Justice, was a young man at the Bar, he wished to obtain a small legal post in the Archbishop's Prerogative Court.
It is not long since the chief of the princely House of Duff was raised to the first order of the peerage, and one or two opulent earls, encouraged by his example, are understood to be looking upward.
In a former chapter we agreed that the chief requisite of good conversation is to have something to say which is worth saying, and here Lord Rosebery is excellently equipped.
Then was the wrath of Baines kindled against the tribes of Rag and Tag for that they had not shouted according to his word; and he commanded that their chief men and counsellors should be cast out of the Queen's Post Office.
The old chief has determined to open the proceedings of the Congress in French.
Frances Countess Waldegrave, who had previously been married three times, took as her fourth husband an Irishman, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, who was shortly afterwards made Chief Secretary.
The late Sir William Gregory used to narrate how when a child he was taken by his grandfather, who was Under-Secretary for Ireland, to see the Chief Secretary, Lord Melbourne, in his official room.
The newly appointed rector of one of the chief parishes in London was entertained at dinner by a prominent member of the congregation.
There was a tramway at Salay, drawn by a bull, and driven by a fellow whose chief object seemed to be to linger with the señorita at the terminus.
There were the chief assassins, so the padre whispered to me, who were decorated savagely, according to the number of victims each had slain.
The chief assassins were completely clad in scarlet, indicating that the wearer had disposed of more than twenty enemies.
They had the padre now upon the altar, and the chief had bidden me to take the knife and draw his blood.
Sending a telegram to the chief quartermaster whom she called a "dear," she said that if the ship would stop to let her on, she could go out to meet it in a banca.
The Special Branch in the days of suffragette outrages was the chief foe of the vote-seekers.
The administrative work of the department is carried out by the Assistant-Commissioner and the Chief Constable.
Chief Detective-Inspector Bower, now head of the Port of London Authority police, ultimately arrested a man against whom there was nothing but suspicion, as apart from legal proof.
But the chief idea is the same--the safety and comfort of the public.
There are metropolitan section sergeants who have as many men under their control as some chiefconstables of small boroughs.
In the long chain forged for the preservation of law and order in the metropolis the constable is the chief and, in some ways, the most important link.
It needed a chief with courage, individuality, ideas, initiative, and the organising powers of a Kitchener.
They possess no cattle, and, if they did, the nearest chief would immediately rob them.
We at last saw them, on reaching a piece of level ground, get on their legs, the chief still leading, and bolting for the village, at a pace that nothing would warrant but a tin kettle at their heels.
The chief told him he should, when Buctoo drew out the glass, on which all the Tartars moved off to a respectful distance.
For what Vasari observes of him, that his knowledge did not equal that of his master, is no less true, than that the chief part of his own assistants surpassed him.
His chieftalent lay in portraits; though he was also well skilled in compositions.
For the rest he is more pleasing, accurate, and exact, than most artists of his age; and possibly his over diligence acted as an obstacle to him in a city where the rapid Fontana bore the chief sway.
The chief part were more eager to imitate his expression and his facility than the elegance of his design and colouring, even so far as to fall into the bordering errors of negligence and of caricature.
It is the same with his other pictures, executed at his native place, when still young, and perhaps the chief distinction consists in his inferior accuracy of design, and less force of chiaroscuro.
More than fifty of these last have been enumerated, for the chief part abounding with figures; labours which must have occupied a large portion of his best time.
Having subsequently established himself at Parma, he selected for his chief model the works of Coreggio, and next proceeded to the study of Parmigianino.
The silence of Vasari, of Lomazzo, of Baldinucci, as well as the chief part of foreigners, is thus likewise accounted for.
The chief part of his specimens to be met with in collections, consist of heads of aged men, full of dignity, and touched with a certain boldness of hand, which declares the master.
For as long as the numerous volumes deposited at the Ambrosian library continue to exist, the world must admit that he was one of the chief revivers, not only of painting but of statics, of hydrostatics, of optics, and of anatomy.
It has been seen that, after Sir James's arrival in London, he was offered the chief command in the East Indies, which he declined chiefly because he did not consider his health equal to it; but he was not allowed to remain long idle.
To his Excellency Don Joseph de Mazzaredo, Commander-in-chief of his Most Cath.
Owing partly to the negotiations and to the expectation that an enemy's fleet might escape from the Scheldt, the commander-in-chief was detained at Wingo Sound, the outer Roads of Gothenburg.
My chief dislike to the station would be its prolonging my absence from home, as, in other respects, I would as soon be there as in any other station whilst I remain employed.
He never doubted that he should be continued in thechief command; and his hopes of the pleasing intelligence had been raised to the highest pitch, when the long-expected despatches arrived.
On practically all occasions there is a presiding officer whose chief duty is to introduce to the audience the various speakers.
The New York Tribune, by parallel columns, brought out these chief points of difference between the Paris plan and Senator Knox's for the League of Nations.
The preceding adjectives suggest the chief faults of those persons who are repeatedly asked to speak upon such occasions.
Has he made the main topics, the chief aim, stand out prominently enough?
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Julius Caesar a detailed description of the appearance and manner of acting of one of the chief characters of the tragedy.
The chief peculiarity in the pronunciation of the Southern and Western people, is the giving of a broader sound than is proper to certain vowels; as whar for where, thar for there, bar for bear.
Now,” says the Squire, “I conceit the chiefpint in the case is this here; has Widow Stokes a right to this hay?
The Injuns a kyind a sorter give me a sorter tanyard grin, and the old chief specially puckered up his pictur like a green persimmon; but there were three raal roarers from Salt River with me, so I didn’t care a picayoon if it cum to skulpin.
The monarch had departed with his family and his chief treasures,6 and had placed a vast space between himself and his antagonist.
The regent, Lysias, exercised the chief power, and was soon engaged in a war with the Jews, whom the death of Epiphanes had encouraged to fresh efforts.
Having put to death two of his chief officers, and then found it necessary to deny that he had given orders for the execution of one of them, he broke up from before the place and removed his camp to a distance.
The Parthians were essentially a warlike people; and the chief interest which attaches to them is connected with their military vigor and ability.
He sent a message to Monseses with promises of pardon and favor, which that chief thought worthy of acceptance.
An oppressed people gladly adopts as chief the head of an allied tribe if he has shown skill and daring, and offers to protect them from their oppressors.
The one preferred by his chief officers was the line of the Euphrates, known as that which the Ten Thousand had pursued in an expedition that would have been successful but for the death of its commander.
These proposals were commonly formulated in a letter from the one prince to the other, which it was the chief duty of the ambassadors to convey safely.
Such are the chief remains of Parthian aesthetic art.
The opportunity will also serve for giving such an account of the chief races which here bordered the empire as will show the nature of the peril to which Parthia was exposed at this period.
But he strove bravely; and the closing scenes of the empire, in which he bore the chief part, are not unworthy of its best and palmiest days.
At any rate, the siege and sack of some of the chief towns was a probable contingency, if permanent occupation of the territory did not suit the views of the confederates.
Instead of holding out to the last, the alarmed chief proposed negotiations, and the result was that he consented to capitulate.
About Torquay, the chief rival of Ventnor as a sheltered resort, a well-known novelist, after living there through many winters, says bluntly that it is a little less cold than the rest of England.
It is easy to understand how Cowes came to be the Tilbury and Gravesend of Newport, then by and by to supplant it as the Island’s chief port.
A more honourable name was the Worsleys, here commemorated, long one of the chief families in the Island, that had its principal seat at Appuldurcombe on the high downs above Godshill.
Brading, an hour’s walk from Ryde, seems an insignificant place now; but it claims to have been the ancient metropolis of the Island in days when St Helens was its chief port.
His chief accomplishment, it seems, was playing the piano like an angel, which left me cold, while it drew tuneful flies into his web of treasons and stratagems.
One of its chief attractions, after golf, is the view of shipping in the Solent mouth; but it has some pretty spots on land, such as the avenue running inland from the bathing beach.
He said that his own arm had been broken by the chief mate in Black River, Jamaica, and that he had also by the captain's orders, though contrary to the practice in merchant vessels, been severely flogged.
He produced against it the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice Holt, who many years before had determined, that every slave coming into England became free.
It appeared that the motive was, that he might give to it, by his official appearance as the chief servant of the crown in that house, all the opposition in his power.
I went with him to the residence of George Daubeny, esquire, who was then chief magistrate of the city, and they were sworn to in his presence, and witnessed as the law requires.
This he published in the year 1729, though the chief judge had threatened him if he should give it to the world, and he circulated it free of expense wherever he believed it would be useful.
Wadstrom, chief director of the assay-office there, arrived in England.
But this assertion went for nothing when balanced against the facts which had come out; and this was so evident, that an order was made out for the apprehension of the chief mate.
Unable to find a friend here, he called upon the chief mate; but this only made matters worse, for the captain then ordered the latter to flog him also; which he did for some time, using however only the lashes of the instrument.
If John had been asked to define thechief difference between Europe and America he would have replied that it was a matter of uniforms.
I fancy the chief part of our occupation will be retreating until the British come up.
In a word, he shut her up in a certain apartment of one of the seven palaces, allowing only ten old women to wait upon her, to keep her company, the chief of whom had been her nurse.
He came soon to be publicly known by his virtue, through which he acquired the esteem of a great many people, as well of the commonalty as of the chief of the city.
Then turning to the chief treasurer, he ordered him to send the ten thousand pieces of gold to the vizier's house.
The chief of the eunuchs and his retinue being gone, Schemselnihar returned to the saloon, extremely concerned at the necessity she was under of sending back the prince of Persia sooner than she thought to have done.
These entries give valuable information as to the prices of the two chief kinds of tobacco.
Tobacco-pipe making was a flourishing industry at this period and throughout the seventeenth and following century in most of the chief provincial towns and cities as well as in London.
Among the chief strongholds of the old ideas and prejudices were some of the clubs.
The chief legitimate objection to cigarette smoking was well stated some years ago by the late Dr.
The cigar dealt the snuff-box its death-blow and the cigarette was chiefmourner at its funeral.
At least that's what the doll's father, who was Chief Engineer at Airtech, Inc.
Or maybe my Dad's being Chief at Airtech has something to do with it.
It recalls, by its costume and attributes, the Egyptian goddess Neith, whose temple was at Sais, the chief city of the Delta.
The chief temple of Nebo was at Borsippa, on the opposite side of the Euphrates to Babylon; the town was sometimes called Babylon II.
It also indicated the future position and chief events of life.
There is also one showing the chiefproducts of their kingdom and its dependencies.
Nor do the German pips and cards lend themselves to the chief features of the game, particularly since they have no Joker, which is the most important card in Euchre.
The rod, when used as a sceptre, has other and important significances, and is one of thechief signs of a ruler's position and power.
Michel was appointed Chief Justice and Nogent Saint-Laurent was counsel for the prisoner.
Sometimes twenty or thirty parishes joined forces to attack the beast, led by the most experienced huntsmen and the chief louvetier of the kingdom.
Here end the chief events of Huggy's life--all, at least, that are worth recording.
It had happened that a plot against the life of Nero had been discovered, and the chief conspirator, Titus Sabinus by name, was put to death, together with some of his servants.
Sai was very popular with everybody, but he had his own favourites, and the chief of these was the governor, whom he could not bear to let out of his sight.
Jacko instantly showed such signs of joy that Decamps made a shrewd guess that the visitor could be no other than Fan, the self-elected tutor in chief to the two animals--nor was he mistaken.
I had a number of dogs, of which the chief was Pritchard.
She was the daughter of a chief of the Utah tribe, and had been taken prisoner, with several other women, by a tribe of hostile Indians whom the Baron fell in with.
With that the chief dragon deserted Phronsie, and presently there resounded the rattle of the scales, the clanking of chains, and the dragging about of the rest of their paraphernalia.
Presently the rustle of a stiff black satin gown became the chief intruder upon the silence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
