And in all these women palavers my people are as dumb beasts.
He had power under his king to call palavers on all great national questions, such as the failure of crops, the shifting of fishing-grounds, and the infidelities of highly-placed women.
They administer justice as magistrates, decide palaversaccording to the unwritten law of custom, summon offenders, and inflict the punishment due.
Certain liberty was allowed a slave; he could attend the village or tribal palavers and take part in the discussion.
In many towns there is a place for gathering for palavers under a tree known as the palaver tree.
In these palavers frequently speeches of great length and finished oratory are delivered.
This law is the cause of the most brain-spraining palavers that come before the white authorities.
She did all the tiresome Court business, sometimes sitting eight hours patiently listening to the evidence; she held palavers with chiefs; she went long journeys on foot into the wilderness, going where no white man went.
Then came lessons for a couple of hours, Ma doctoring patients or holding palavers the while.
And there were always the Court and the palavers and the dispensary and the building and repairing and cooking and digging and a hundred and one other duties.
We has two or three more palavers with the Sigñorita Esperanza and stacks the deck to beat the harbor police and the Customs people an' all, an' to nip down the coast with our contraband.
The palavers he called had a deeper significance to the men who attended them than purely geographical inquiries.
He stopped at villages and heldpalavers on this question of N'bosini and acquired a whole mass of conflicting information.
For men may come and there will be other palavers and perhaps fighting?
In the meantime, up and down the river went Bones, palavers which lasted from sunrise to sunset being his portion.
Now, on the river, it is customary for all who desire inter-tribal palavers to announce their intention loudly and insistently.
As you have created most of the palavers yourself," said Hamilton unkindly, "I do not deny this.
For my men are weary, having hunted in the forest, and my chiefs do not like long palavers concerning law.
Yes, your Excellency," said Hamilton, "there have been one or two serious killing palaverson which I will report.
And since a million and odd square miles of territory may only be governed by a handful of ragged soldiers so long as there is no concerted action against authority, extemporized and spontaneous palavers are severely discouraged.
Seven women have literally touched them, and all the people, including the most practical of the chiefs, come to the house and hold their palavers in full view of where the children are being nursed.
The people were becoming ashamed of their superstition, and were ready to inform her secretly when palavers and sacrifices were in contemplation.
She used to say that it was only during these long palavers that she could get some knitting done.
One of her favourite devices duringpalavers was to knit.
The story of one of these knittingpalavers must suffice.
They have fled in spite of encouraging palavers and promises of peace and kind treatment.
A leopard has killed two of my people, and I have had a great many palavers with their families on account of their death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palavers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
