The Earl could scarcely believe his eyes when, as he was about to leave, he saw the stern chieftainess lift little Tristram in her arms and embrace him tenderly, while the child clung to her and cried.
Moreover, Wambe having left no children, his wife Maiwa should be declared chieftainess of the tribe, under Nala.
Then Nala asked his daughter if she was willing to becomechieftainess of the tribe under him.
Upwards of sixty of the followers of Te Rauparaha were killed, amongst them a chieftainess named Muri-whakaroto, who fell into the hands of the enraged Te Aweawe, and was despatched without the slightest compunction.
As we went Umslopogaas told me that he had duly appointed Lousta and his wife Monazi to rule the tribe during his absence, an office which they accepted doubtfully, Monazi acting as Chieftainess and Lousta as her head Induna or Councillor.
Only the little Chieftainess Imba ought to sleep in this house on the night of full moon.
The little Chieftainess is bitten in the finger by a hooded snake.
She had become a kind of little chieftainess among these folk, also, Christian and heathen alike.
Should he be wrath with the Little Chieftainess Imba, she asked him, because the Isitunzis, the spirits of the dead, loved her as did everything else?
Quarrels arose with Ngati-Paoa at last as the result of a marriage of a Waikato chieftainess to Te Putu, a Ngati-Paoa chief.
His wife--Matere Toha--was a Ngapuhi chieftainess of high rank, being a niece of the great Hongi Ika.
The chieftainessand her husband sat beside the Governor.
Then two beautiful women came in, and led off the two sons by the hand, while the chieftainess kept the chief for herself.
The chieftainesswept and spoke thus: "As a fair wind is blowing away from my country, you, if you set sail and sail straight ahead, will be able to reach your home at Iwanai.
Then the chieftainess spoke as follows, "As the fall of the leaf has now come, and as there are two vice-chieftainesses besides me, I will send your two sons to them.
Our chieftainess was fixing the final arrangements the evening before in the drawing-room of the pension.
Who comes to give greeting to the Chieftainess [Inkosi-kaas]?
At last Soto, after a march of four hundred and thirty leagues, much of it through uninhabited land, reached the province ruled by the chieftainess of Cofitachiqui.
At the close of May they were in Guaxule, where the chieftainess regained her freedom.
The chieftainessstood at the right extremity of the band.
The chieftainess placed herself opposite to him, with the women; the band struck up more noisily than ever, and the torture began.
Apparently they thought that the ghost of the chieftainess was quite as able as the great gods to heal the sick and restore the dying.
Because I was rich and a sort of chieftainess I ought to have been tall and rather stately, or at least I ought to have had a bearing which would have made it impossible for people to quite overlook me.
The huge, frowning feudal castle standing upon its battlemented rock was mine; I was a great heiress, and I was, so to speak, thechieftainess of the clan.
The new ruler being of fine and stalwart form and handsome appearance, the chiefs and common people maintained that his fame in this respect induced a celebrated chieftainess of Kauai, named Kekuapoi, to voyage hither.
The pretty chieftainess smiled, the baby took a sip and crowed like a chicken.
One summer there came from the east to visit us a chieftainess with several of her followers.
And there, a chieftainess among savages, Suzanne was fated to dwell for more than two long years.
I belong to the people of Zwide, whom Chaka drove from Zululand, and by birth I am a chieftainess of the Umpondwana, who live in the mountain Umpondwana, and who were the Children of Zwide, but are now the Children of Chaka.
But they would not have me set over them as chieftainess unless I married a man, and towards marriage I have no wish, for I am different from other women, both in body and heart.
Lady, when he had finished speaking we consulted together and answered Bull-Head thus: 'We cannot give over to you our chieftainess and her white sister, for it is better to die than that such dishonour should lie upon our names.
Tell us now, did you hear of any white woman dwelling with the chieftainess Sihamba?
It was said that his grandmother was a chieftainess among the red Kaffirs, but if so, the blood showed more in his son and only child than in himself.
As chieftainess she still had about a pint of water stored in a jar, but though she had made Suzanne drink, herself she drank but little, for she would not consent to suffer less than those about her.
One last touch of irony is needed to complete the story of the suits brought by the Chieftainess Toeremetsjani and her indunas against Messrs.
He considered them guilty, not because they had done anything, but because in their position as advisers of the Chieftainess they ought to have advised her better than they appeared to have done.
They scarcely took in the fact that the girl had pride, that she was the daughter of a chief, and a chieftainess herself, and that it was far from happy to offer her Marion's clothes to wear.
Tezcatlipoca, the one-footed fire-drill god, is represented sixteen times, each time in the act of receiving the enforced homage of the chief or chieftainess of a different locality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chieftainess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
