And the old hetman stooped down, and felt in the grass for his pipe full of tobacco, his inseparable companion on all his expeditions by sea and land and at home.
Before them stood Khlib, the hetman of the Pereyaslavsky kuren, without his trousers or accoutrements, just as they had captured him in his drunken sleep.
He has left untouched rich plunder," said Borodaty, hetman of the Oumansky kuren, leaving his men and going to the place where the nobleman killed by Kukubenko lay.
When the Oumantzi heard that the hetman of their kuren, Borodaty, was no longer among the living, they deserted the field of battle, rushed to secure his body, and consulted at once as to whom they should select as their leader.
Taras, and hastened to find his Cossacks, to look once more upon them, and let them behold their hetman once more before the hour of death.
Hetman Ostranitza, young, but firm in mind, led the vast Cossack force.
The speech of the hetman of the kuren pleased the Cossacks.
Taras to him, "be patient, you will be hetmanone day.
The hetman and leaders agreed to release Pototzky, after having extracted from him a solemn oath to leave all the Christian churches unmolested, to forswear the ancient enmity, and to do no harm to the Cossack forces.
Let each hetman inspect his kuren; those whose ranks are not full are to be recruited from the remains of the Pereyaslavsky kuren.
The Cossacks all stood with drooping heads, knowing that they were guilty; only Kukubenko, the hetman of the Nezamisky kuren, answered back.
At Bratslav and Kalnik he rendered great service, for which the hetman made him captain, though he was the youngest man in the squadron.
The hetman was convinced that Kamenyets would not hold out; with him the question was simply that it should hold out as long as possible,--that is, till the Commonwealth could assemble some forces for defence.
And the hetman himself cannot hinder me; for I am a noble, and I know my rights.
The oldest people say that against the heart the command of a hetman is nothing.
The Commonwealth will return to its senses at last; and even if the hetman should not collect a great force, he will annoy the Turk with attacks.
He beat the hetmans and the king and the Commonwealth; and besides that, he was hetman of the Cossacks.
And a week later the prince repeated the same directly to Pan Zagloba, when they met at the house of the Grand Hetman Sobieski.
I would write twelve letters, to please you, though I know not what good that would be, for in this case the hetman himself can do nothing; even with protection, Azya can appear only at the right time.
Surely the hetman would not refuse it to Azya, for he loves soldiers.
But did the hetman write to Pan Zlotnitski through Pyotrovich?
The Grand Hetman has sent our ataman to the prince to ask for assistance; so he has gone to Lubni, and he has commanded us to go along through the villages to catch deserters.
And I do not want to thank thishetman for my freedom and life.
In these conditions Hmelnitski might acquire a distinguished position for himself, receive the baton ofhetman from the king, and gain countless concessions for the Cossacks.
Now followed complaints against the haughtiness of Skshetuski, who had refused to take letters from Hmelnitski to the prince, by which action he had put a great slight upon the dignity of the hetman and the whole Zaporojian army.
He perished; and a Nogai horseman raced over the field, while from his saddle-bow depended the head of the hetman with its white streaming hair.
The hetmanhas given me the right to examine all letters.
It was easy to know him, for the banner and bunchuk of the hetman were waving above his head, and before and behind him were borne a number of tens of torches, shining with blood-colored gleams.
My life and the safety of the Zaporojian army lie in this, that the Grand Hetman should not move on us with all his forces, which he would not be slow to do should you inform him of our power.
What you had to give me you have given, and all men now see that I am hetman from the hand of the king; and now come to me for a glass of gorailka and dinner, for I am hungry.
In times past, before the campaign of the hetman Jolkyevski against Solonitsa, these roads were not in existence.
Inform the Zaporojian hetmanthat ours are tamed to the shore.
The dilated nostrils of the hetman inhaled the smoke of powder, and his ears took in with pleasure the sound of the drowning and dying Germans.
The hetman and many Lit'uanian pans were taken prisoners, and there was joy in the bulb-topped city.
The main body of the Moskovite troops was under the direction of the voevoda Yakov Zakharievitch; the Letts were generalled by the hetman Konstantin Ostrojhskie.
In the autumn of 1616 a detachment under the hetman Gonsievskie, consisting of a small but capable force, moved out of Smolensk towards Dorogoboujh and camped at the gorodok of Tverdilitz.
Near Mojhaysk they were attacked by the royal hetman Jholkiewsko on the morning of the 23rd June and completely defeated, the Moskovite cavalry breaking at the first shock.
The campaign was suddenly quickened out of its irresolute lethargy by the news that the hetman Khodkievitch was approaching Moskva with a relief force and the much-needed supplies for the Polish garrison.
The Moskovite voevodas stood by in helpless inactivity while the hetman joined his forces with those of Vladislav, and terror settled down on the capital.
At the end of August Vladislav effected a junction with the Malo-Russian hetman Khodkievitch, and two months later Dorogoboujh and Viasma had both been occupied by the conquering Vasa.
Two armies were formed; one was to march on the Upper Indus by way of Khiva and Bokhara, while the Cossacks under their hetman Denisof would go by Orenburg.
The douma, not fancying the idea that an impostor should rule over them, invited the hetman of a Polish army to Moscow, to discuss the other candidate.
Mazeppa, as we have seen, was at this time hetman of the Cossacks of Little Russia.
Destined for the throne, he began his military career at the age of thirteen as hetman of the Cossacks, and passed successively through the different grades.
The douma invited the hetman to occupy the kremlin with his shoulders.
The hetman of the Cossacks was accused of treachery, and deported to Siberia, when Mazeppa, who had been his secretary, was appointed hetman.
Sobieski was king, he had served in the Vienna campaign under the command of the hetman Jablonowski.
This scene took place between the garden of the Hetman and the Kasanski.
Their hetman has been abolished; their grand ataman is the crown prince; but his work is wholly nominal, and they elect their own atamans and judges for a limited term.
The plain in front of it is the Ukraine steppe; the land of hetman and zaporogue; of stirring legends and riotous song.
The Hetman of Jitomir was sinking deeper and deeper into alcohol.
Nothing can give you any idea of the fever I was in from the day when the Hetman of Jitomir told me of his adventures to the day when I found myself in the presence of Antinea.
Get along, the whole pack of you," howled the Hetman of Jitomir.
Ladies and gentlemen," said the Hetman as we entered.
It is from her that I hold my title of Hetman of Jitomir.
Little by little, the Hetman began to show that ascendancy over them, which is the characteristic of a man of the world even when he is thoroughly drunk; the superiority of education over instruction.
His chocolate-colored hair was parted in the center (later I found out that the Hetman dyed it with a concoction of khol).
A triple power was formed in the Cossack territories; the Hetman with his Government, the commissary of the Provisional Government, and the Soviet.
The Ukrainian Hetman Skoropadsky was one of his ancestors.
In answer the hetman fell to scolding, but being in excellent humor he scolded joyously.
The hetman covered his eyes for a moment with his hand, then he began to pass his hand over his forehead.
The young knight told quickly what he had seen and what the position was; the hetman listened with great satisfaction, and urged forward the squadrons without delay.
But it came from this, that the princehetman chose that time to announce his intrigues with the enemy of the country.
The hetman was flying with one of his own squadrons, his face radiant with joy, and with fire in his eyes; for once he had the cavalry beyond the river, he was certain of victory.
To Kmita, Zagloba, Pan Yan, Pan Stanislav, and Kharlamp were sent special orders to come without fail, for the hetman wished to honor them particularly for their great services.
The hetman rose, but sat down again and inquired calmly,-- "Where is the squadron?
The hetman and the officers saw that the Tartar riding in advance was leading a prisoner; all recognized Boguslav, but in what a change of fortune!
Every man may impose much with daring and impudence, but on people of a certain measure; the hetman was above the measure of Sakovich.
Kmita bowed in silence; but it could not be learned whether the beautiful words of the hetman made any impression on him.
All thought in their hearts that thehetman was to blame for delay, but no one dared say so aloud.
But Douglas was at a loss to understand why Yan Kazimir should send the full hetman beyond the Bug.
Sapyeha, grand hetman of Lithuania and voevoda of Vilna, came from the other side and took his position on the San.
He was appointed secretary and adjutant to Samilovitch, the hetman or chief of the Cossacks, and on the disgrace and exile of this chief in 1687 Mazeppa succeeded him as leader of the tribe.
The khan Oubacha, who saw no object in holding him, now gave him leave to attempt his escape, and also asked him to accompany him during a private interview which he was to hold on the next night with the hetman of the Bashkirs.
The daring hetman of the Cossacks became afterwards a cherished friend of Peter the Great, who conferred on him the title of prince, and severely punished those who accused him of conspiring with the enemies of Russia.
He instantly commanded Menshikov to get a new hetman elected and raze Baturin, Mazepa's chief stronghold in the Ukraine, to the ground.
No other Cossack hetman had ever been treated with such deference at Moscow.
At the approach of his rival the old hetmanhastened to the Swedish outposts at Horki, in Severia.
The topic of conversation in Warsaw has for some time been a hunting party which the Prince Jerome Radzivill, the Hetman of the Lithuania army, is preparing for the pleasure of the king and the duke.
One of these Cossacks, Voinarovski, who had been sent by the hetman to Menshikoff, had returned with most terrifying news.
Once only, when the hetman had to leave him for a couple of days at the call of duty, the well-kept secret seemed about to be told.
Of course we should always obey the hetman of our choosing, but I also must say that men who are willing to be hajdamaks do not expect to live like monks.
The poor girl, feeling shy at first, and disconsolate among strangers, had been glad of the opportunity of showing her gratitude to the hetman by soothing the sick-bed of his servant and friend.
The Huzuls gathered round the Royal Eagle, urging him evidently to inform the hetman of their wishes.
The hetman looked anxious, Jemilian lending words to his fear.
Hetman Chmielnicki at the head of his savage hordes of Russians and Tatars conquered the Poles, and Jews and Catholics were subjected to the most inhuman treatment.
The 34th Brigade was to attack on the plain near Hetman Chair.
Next to it the 32nd Brigade was to get possession of a trench running fromHetman Chair towards "W" Hills.
It is possible that upon Ivan Mazeppa, who was chief or Hetman of the Cossacks at this time, rests the responsibility of the crushing defeat which terminated the brilliant career of Charles XII.
Yermak, the Hetman of the Don, I pardon thee and thy band, I pardon thee for thy trusty service-- And I give to the Cossack the glorious and gentle Don as an inheritance.
The incident is the subject of a bilina, a form of historical poem, in which Yermak says: "I am the robber Hetman of the Don.
Mazeppa is discovered in the character of writer-general or foreign secretary to Peter Doroshénko, hetman or president of the Western Ukraine, on the hither side of the Dniéper.
For some interesting particulars concerning the Hetman Mazeppa, see Barrow's Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great, 1832, pp.
It was at this time that the name of Kaledine, the hetman of the Don Cossacks, first began to appear prominently in the reports of events.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hetman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
