Our master became Kio through the death of his brother," he went on, "and it was through the deaths of other headmen that I was placed in charge of this village.
Of course, he had replaced headmen in other villages--more than once in some cases.
As the boats arrived at village piers, the variousheadmen would merely follow instructions as given by the boat's surrogates.
The village was asleep, but some headmen were at last aroused who begged their visitors to postpone the matter till daylight, when the case would be looked into and the culprits punished, and any required satisfaction given.
Should the thief not get away in the scuffle, he ought to be taken before the village headmen and dealt with.
Where this plan prevails, the headmen are not formally chosen, nor formally deposed.
When a few individuals wish to build a temple, they call the headmen of the village, in whose charge by long custom are all the public matters of the town, and the enterprise is put in their care.
The methods of Chinese management being what they are, it is not surprising that those who are in the position of headmen find it, or rather make it to their advantage to stay in it.
The duties and functions of the headmen are numerous.
The headmen of the village will be certain to be frequently called upon for services of this sort.
In some regions this is actually done, and for the good conduct of the headmen in their office the leading land-owners are required to become a security.
A lawsuit begun upon such a basis meant nothing less than a calamity greater than any flood that was likely to overtake him, so the distracted father hastened to pursue the headmen with offers of adjustment, made through third parties.
Some days after this occurred, the headmen went about collecting a definite assessment from each acre of land in the village, for the purpose of paying for the labour upon the bank previously made.
However compatible such a view may appear with abstract justice, to the minds of the village headmen this was nothing less than rank treason of the most dangerous type.
If in the future there occurs in any village destruction of property or violence to a missionary, the headmen of such village shall be dealt with according to the edict issued during the twenty-second year of the present Emperor.
So the Chinese are forever disputing about something, and the magistrates and village headmen are beset by clamorous hordes who demand a settlement of their alleged grievances.
On March 1 was held a formal palaver of headmenand elders.
The headmen salute their visitors Arab-fashion, with flourishes of the sword; but swording ends there.
Their headmen were old hands approaching the fifties: now they are youths of twenty-five.
The headmen said No, he must not leave, for in their hearts they were sure that he would go, not to the Cape Colony, but to Zululand, there to discover all he could as to the death of the Inkosazana.
But he did not die, he grew strong again, and when he was well and fit to travel, went to the headmen of the people, saying that now he desired to leave them and return to his own place in the Cape Colony.
Raut is frequently a title of headmen among Lingayats.
In some parts of Kurnool, the headmen are called Simhasana Boyas.
These headmen are assisted by a Bhollobhaya or Dolobehara, and there is a further official called Agopothiria, whose duty it is to eat with an individual who is re-admitted into the caste after a council meeting.
The parents, the managers of the two families, and the village headmen all touch the vessel, which, with the hands of the bridal pair, is moved up and down three times.
One of Belarab's headmenwho was nearest to him answered: "The mist has thickened.
Later Tengga's houses were set on fire and Belarab, mounting a fiery pony, issued forth to make a triumphal progress surrounded by a great crowd of headmen and guards.
If the headmen are dead, I am useless to you as a hostage.
Very few attain to old age, but there were until lately three old patriarchs among them, who were the headmen of three of the most important sections of the tribe.
The two headmen discuss the proposed match, and exchange betel and nut thrice.
The nadu headmen on the Pachaimalais also do duty as Pattakarans.
Headmen among them, styled Chettis, were by the Arcot Nawabs assigned districts, in which they possessed both magisterial and civil authority, and levied taxes from other merchants for their own personal use.
It is only with the consent of the headmen that marriages may be contracted.
The Mullu and Ten Kurumbans have headmen with titles of Muppan and Mudali respectively conferred by their janmis (landlords).
For the betrothal ceremony some leading men of the village, and the headmen of the bride and bridegroom's villages, are required to be present.
The headmenof the Kuravas are called Urali and Panikkan, and they must be paid a fee of not less than ten chuckrams on all religious occasions.
As many as 400 tents are pitched here in the height of the season, and the coming and going of Khans and headmen with tribute and on other business is ceaseless.
When caught, the headmen consult as to his punishment, which may be the cutting off of a hand or nose, or to be severely branded.
In the same year, Sulu's eastern, western and village rajahs with their wives, children and headmen all came to the Chinese court with tribute, and another tribute mission from Sulu arrived in 1420.
In 1408 the chief was accompanied by an imposing retinue of two headmen from each village subject to his authority and these in turn each accompanied by some of his retainers.
Early in the morning persons sent out to reconnoitre reported that men were erecting awnings on the green before the school-house, that the headmen of villages had all arrived, and that His Majesty was being helped into his uniform.
He was the headman of Avatele, and it soon became evident that the headmen of each of the eleven villages intended to deliver themselves of the oratory of which I had defrauded them when the Treaty was signed.
It meant that three headmen would be represented to Queen Victoria as pre-eminent above their fellows.
The eleven headmen also had requests to make: they too would like to be of the party.
They keep away from their villages during the day, and work in the fields; and the headmen shut their eyes, for they know that if the fields are not cultivated, the people cannot pay their share of the taxes.
The Headmen collect from the rayats, and then they make elaborate preparations of food, killing a buffalo or fowls, and all this is thrown away as already stated.
He suggested regular meetings of the headmen on Kapaa'a, and the idea was received with acclaim.
First round the other islands, at each of which Blair and Ha'o landed and had a talk with the headmen and explained their ideas to them.
For the headmen of the smaller islands came regularly to Kapaa'a for consultation--and gifts--and his influence over them grew steadily.
Among the Kafirs of the Hindoo Koosh men who are preparing to be headmen are considered ceremonially pure, and wear a semi-sacred uniform which must not be defiled by coming into contact with dogs.
Tama Bulan and two Madang headmen should act as assessors, and decide whether the piece of rubber brought by each person was sufficiently large to produce $2.
Before describing such a journey, something must be said of the place in the scheme of government occupied by the chiefs and headmen of the various communities.
Then a council of headmen was held, chiefly to discuss my visit; this lasted some hours.
We had some trouble with these people; but after various messages and a halt of an hour or so, we were told to follow two headmen to the Queen's residence.
DesCaut glowered at him a moment and spoke to the headmen around in their speech.
Swiftly four headmen disembarked from the first four canoes of the half-moon which closed in with scarce a paddle dip, so deft were the braves with their slender, shining blades of white ash, and stood behind.
Side by side, conversing in a few sentences, the trader and the chief entered the post, followed by the headmen and proceeded to the factory, where McElroy stood to welcome them in the open door.
In the trading-room sat the chief with his headmen and old Quamenoka of the Assiniboines, smoking gravely many pipes and listening to the trading.
A hundred headmen gathered in knots and there was dissension and brawling and once near a riot, while the girl stood in a circle of malodorous, leering humans with her back against a tree, warding off hands with man-like blows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
