Catognatus, who had his informants in Caesar's army, was soon warned of the danger that threatened him.
Our informants add that they never had to fight men like themselves, and that if any disputes arise between the families, they call together the oldest chiefs of the other families to arbitrate between them.
I have heard of cases of unjust warfare but my informants were enemies of the parties against whom they complained and most probably were calumniating them.
Where informants cannot be mentioned by name and address, the chances are, they cannot be trusted.
They made a pair of rackets for the woman to walk on, and brought her and her children along in safety to the Big Island, where my informants resided at the time.
Might he not even, if he were a shrewd man, suspect that that was the very object and aim which his informants had in view?
His informants divide the great clan Juhaynah living about Yambu’ and Yambu’ al-Nakhl into five branches, viz.
But none of my informants claimed for Al-Madinah any facilities of studying other than the purely religious sciences.
The same informants support the ready inference from the structure that the shrubbery and other material forming walls and roofs are gathered and placed from time to time by the women occupying the jacales.
The direct expressions of the Seri informants are fully corroborated by the association of things in interior Seriland.
Whether this was done by channels radiating from below the curve r s over the area F, or by carrying the water, I cannot tell, neither my informants nor the appearance of the area giving any clew.
The ritual of the Saloko ceremony seems, in part, to bear out this claim; yet the folk-tales and equally good informants assure us that the heads were placed on sharpened bamboo poles, which passed through the foramen magnum.
According to many informants among the older men, it was formerly necessary, following the death of an adult, for the men to put on white head-bands and go out on a head-hunt.
This first Colombian invasion of the Putumayo regions took place, I am informed, in the early eighties, some of my informantsstated about 1886.
Several informants declared they had witnessed Indians, chained round the arms, hauled up to the ceilings of the houses or to trees, and the chain then suddenly loosed so that the victim fell violently to the ground.
I am sure that my informants believed they had dreamed in the way they said.
Informants fell of themselves into the habit of thus punctuating the narrative by mentioning the song numbers.
Among the Ndavotukia I had no difficulty in obtaining an account of the ritual until I came to this point, but here all my informants broke off with a self-conscious giggle, and said that they knew no more.
We have no lump sum in the field offices for employment of informants as such which is not supported by vouchers.
The file contains the identity of some of our informants in subversive movements.
Lastly, with respect to the Australians, four of my informants answer by a simple negative, and one by a simple affirmative.
With the Australians only one of my informants has seen the fists clenched.
It has been noticed in eight different districts of Australia; and one of my informants remarks how greatly the lips of the children are then protruded.
It is asserted by four of my informants that the Australians, who are almost as black as negroes, never blush.
Nevertheless one or two of my informants believe that they have blushed from shame at acts in no way relating to others.
With respect to fear, as exhibited by the various races of man, my informants agree that the signs are the same as with Europeans.
My informants answer with remarkable uniformity to the same effect, with respect to the various races of man; the above movements of the features being often accompanied by certain gestures and sounds, presently to be described.
If the informants gave incomplete data, then the number would be higher.
In other words the data furnished by Kroeber's informants and presented in the table on page 18 were not based upon the actual or presumptive number of pits but on inhabited houses.
The first (rliiken-pets) is stated by Waterman to have been the "site of a small settlement" where informants recalled 2 houses and a sweathouse.
Many of Foster's remaining places are designated merely "rancheria," since hisinformants could remember no further details.
First, the informants of Foster were recalling the important villages which they had seen or been told about but had forgotten the minor sites, hence the great preponderance of nohots.
None of Loud's whiteinformants could go back of 1850 and one gets the impression that his Indian informants could do little better.
Loud based his data on interviews with numerous informants together with a rather cursory visual inspection of the region.
A safer guide is the memory of reliable informantsor actual house counts made by explorers or original settlers.
No wonder modern informants frequently cannot look past the period of upheaval and give us a clear picture of untouched aboriginal life before the white man came!
This estimate appears too low, particularly since the informants were all born in the 1860's, twenty years after the first contact with the white man.
My informants think that 'some modern badges have been substituted for more ancient ones,' such as tiger and monkey.
A mere assertion on the part of our informants might leave some doubts; but if they adduce these beliefs in detail, the doubts can be only as to their trustworthiness; and this is out of the question in the present case.
It is unnecessary to insist on the bewilderment, but the polemical mood in which our informants always approached the problem of relationship and family has had its unfortunate consequences.
And is the accordance of opinion among all our Australian informants on this point not a proof that they were able to judge with great certainty from these facts concerning the underlying feelings?
Obviously Curr's information contradicts in plain terms the foregoing set of statements, and such a contradiction among our best informants is truly puzzling.
It is well to notice that the majority of our informants when speaking of elopements never observe the point whether the woman was already married or not.
In the second place, the polemical attitude of our best informants (Howitt, and Spencer and Gillen) against individual relationship resulted in their giving very meagre information about the individual family.
Reasons have been already advanced to support our belief that such betrothal ceremonies were in fact more frequent than our informants report.
The facts themselves seemed perhaps to the majority of our informantsmuch too commonplace and unimportant.
It is, therefore, useless, and adduced only as an example of how different and contradictory the statement of even good informants may be.
Highly objectionable from our point of view, however, is the fact that our best informants (especially Howitt and Spencer and Gillen) describe the facts of sexual life of to-day in terms of their hypothetical assumptions.
As many of ourinformants do not use exact terminology but write in a colloquial language, often spoilt by literary pretensions, we occasionally run the risk of being misled by a word or by a turn of expression.
Necessarily the most valuable information comes from the oldest Indians, and many informants have died since this study was made.
Although plentiful around the Lac du Flambeau region, our informants said that this is not used.
Most of our informants were men, because they found it easier to talk to the writer than the women.
So all these wretched creatures were hanged at Chelmsford, and the informants plumed themselves greatly on their evidence.
It said that in December 1988, two informants had called Secret Service special agents in separate divisions with information about Par.
She was well connected when it came to hackers, having acquired a collection of reliable informants during her investigations of hacker-related incidents.
One of my informants dismissed the whole matter thus.
I have been much assisted by informants too numerous for mention here, and can only allude to those who have most conspicuously aided me.
The annexed drawing[2] may probably represent the creature to which the informantsof Ælian referred.
His remark on the compression of the tail shows that his informants were aware of this speciality in those that inhabit the sea.
Some informants claim that even should the daughter own a natoas, the father must provide another.
This attitude of our informants implies that public opinion had sufficient force to call out volunteers against their own wills.
Our informants say that formerly the circle was formed by the assemblage of the bands some time before the medicine woman began her fast.
Formerly, these men must have had a coup to their credit as a qualification and some informants claim that the sum total for the society should have totalled at least one hundred, the number of willows.
At least, my Piegan informantsasserted that the Kutenai had the sun dance from them.
Some informants say the dancers held whistles in their mouths and gazed at the sun as they danced.
The hair hung down, held in place by a wreath of cedar (some informants say sage).
Some informants claim that in former years each band was required to furnish two rafters, a post, a rail, and their proportionate amount of boughs.
The number of tongues required is uncertain, some informants claiming that there should be an even hundred, others, that four to five full parfleches was the standard.
Some informantsclaim that formerly this was to be carried out by the medicine woman's band; others that one of the men's societies was called upon for this service.
Other informantssay a crescent moon in black was used instead of these circles.
All my informants agreed in describing them as quiet, decent, sober people; but regarding their religious doctrines the evidence was vague and contradictory.
My informants firmly believed that he was not an impostor, but the genuine Tsar, dethroned by his ambitious consort, and that he never was taken prisoner, but "went away into foreign lands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "informants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
