Bhairon am I--Bhairon of the Common People, and the chiefest of tithe Heavenly Ones today.
When their country had been devastated and some forts burned and, chiefest of all, the hands of every one that was caught were cut off, they were quickly subdued.
Iues in Cornwall, from whence passing by land both together vp towards London, we were met without the Citie with the chiefest marchants of the Barbary Company, well mounted all on horsebacke, to the number of 40.
Those of Pegu bring the chiefest stones, as Rubies and Diamants, but their chiefe fraight is Rice and certaine cloth.
The chiefestplaces of traffique on that coast betweene these riuers, are these: [Sidenote: The names of the chiefe places of traffike between Senega and Gambra.
Dassel, two of your letters I haue receiued, one by the shippe called The Amity, the other by the Concord: the chiefest matter therein was to be satisfied of the king of Morocco his proceedings in Guinea.
Chequeam is the third shire, the chiefest Citie therein is Donchion, therein also standeth Liampo, with other 13.
For a dyer, for a brewer, for a tanner, for a linen weaver, the chiefest to take by the year of wages not above ls.
And the chiefest cause why our English men do not go so far westerly as the especial fishing places do lie, both for plenty and greatness of fish, is for that they have no succour and known safe harbour in those parts.
A Shoemaker } A Currier } A Woollen Weaver } The chiefest of these to take by the A Tucker } year of wages not above xls.
From Larissa he wrote to Caesar, who expressed a great deal of joy to hear that he was safe, and, bidding him come, not only forgave him freely, but honored and esteemed him among his chiefest friends.
I spared my land, And withheld from usurpation and from violence my hand, And forbore to fix a stain and a disgrace on my good name, I regret not; I believe that it will be my chiefest fame.
The first and chiefest was the long stay of Caesar, though the day was far spent, and his being detained at home by his wife, and forbidden by the soothsayers to go forth, upon some defect that appeared in his sacrifice.
To these extremities, the chiefest and the most powerful commanders of the age were reduced by the skill of Sertorius; and it was the common opinion in Rome, that he would be in Italy before Pompey.
In the meantime, all the chiefest of those who accompanied Pompey in this voyage, were come into his ship to learn the event of their embassy.
They drove the fliers within their walls of wood; and, a little time after, the Athenians put the Thebans to flight, killing three hundred of the chiefest and of greatest note among them in the actual fight itself.
If it be the chiefest thing in a general to obtain the obedience of his soldiers by good-will, Lucullus was despised by his own army, but Cimon highly prized even by others.
It is the water there is the chiefest cause of its goodnesse: perhaps the nitrousnesse of the maulting floores may something help.
Crafish are very plenty at Salisbury; but the chiefest places for them Hungerford and Newbury: they are also at Ramesbury, and in the Avon at Chippenham.
Great was the wrath of the elect against all amusements of the kind--but chiefest among outrages was this graceless German.
The Puny Fox is our chiefest liar, and doth for us the more part of such work as we need: therefore, why should we others lie.
He had taken Nombre de Dios so easily that he felt confident of treating Cartagena, the chiefest town in those waters, in the same way.
Moreover the Epeirot kings Alexander and Pyrrhos are themselves part of the Hellênismos; they are among the chiefest signs that the Hellenic name and culture had spread beyond the genealogical bounds of the Hellenic nation.
Here in truth are some of the chiefest elements of the modern world, and though none of them are among the nations that crossed the Rhine in 407, yet the new position taken by all of them is the direct consequence of that crossing.
The chiefest city in this land, they are forced to marvel where the people has been in former times that are in it now, so that they cannot get kirks to contain them.
Christ comes to make a perfect description of His church, and so consequently, a comfortable expression of Himself to His church: and whereas the eyes are the chiefest seat of beauty, and therefore likeliest to be stood upon, he begins thus.
And they are described here to be a people belonging to Jesus Christ; to be a people on whom God manifests His power; and they are a most willing people, a people who count holiness to be their chiefest beauty.
Mayenne was quite right: it was certainly the chiefest of all matters.
Let him who would be chiefest among you, be the servant of all," was intended for nations as well as for citizens.
Let him who would be chiefest among you be servant of all.
This day the sun is in his chiefest height, With Barnaby the bright, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.
He says, God prevented his purposes in his last and chiefest opposition to the army; that he intended to take off or seduce from their officers the regiment with which he was connected, and then to have tried his persuasion upon the others.
Chiefest among them is Raphael's sublime and wonderful painting of The Transfiguration.
Here there is gathered, as in an immense casket, the chiefest of the art treasures of all ages, the works of antiquity, and the principal productions of the greatest men who have lived.
Chiefest of all was the Delhi Assemblage Cup--the Imperial Vase, of solid gold, won by Crown Prince.
They chased one into retirement, but they blossomed in chiefest splendour round the Bar, and they were all used, every reeking one of 'em.
This day the ship was dressed with flags from stem to stern, and chiefest of the bunting was the Union-Jack.
All my chiefest treasures,--husband, children, many great and precious promises for both this life and the next.
It is the chiefest of satisfactions this last, where sympathy is possible and perfect.
The King from Eltham I intend to steal, And sit atchiefest stern of public weal.
And who, chiefest of rank but himself, was there but Niblack?
And of what value was hereditary prestige, when he who now chopped the most wood, or best conned a stern-wheeler through the island mazes, attained the chiefest consideration of his fellows?
And further, Ligoun being dead, there was no need for my youth, and I laid about me with his knife, choosing the chiefest of rank that yet remained.
Sir, it must needs be lamely followed, when The chiefest men love to follow it Are for the most part cripples.
In the great museums you will find all the other curiosities, but in the curio of chiefest interest to the stranger all of them are lacking.
Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer, and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place.
Yet will we spend our dearest blood Thy chiefestharts to slay.
The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
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