With En-Noor always authority remains, whilst all the other Sheikhs are being changed--some every year.
These presents had been promised to Hateetah on the road from Mourzuk to Ghât, upon the condition that the Sheikhs and people would agree to the treaty.
We knew already that all the tribes and sheikhs were jealous of our escort.
However, the following day we had a regular debate, the result of which was that the Sheikhs and heads of the town declared they could not come to a final arrangement until the winter souk (market), when all the notables would be assembled.
On the morning fixed for my departure, the Sheikhs and Haj Ahmed, seeing me much grieved, out of health and out of temper, all came forward to try and repair any mischief they might have done me and their own reputation.
The relations of the lesser Sheikhs of Aheer with the paramount sultan are of this kind.
The hostileSheikhs told our marabouts that they did not come to harm us, but to oblige us to become Muslims, for no infidel had ever, or ever should, pass through their country.
A long discussion followed, but I at first misunderstood the conclusion to which the Sheikhs came.
They consisted of the sheikhs of the districts, with their followers and lawless men scraped together from various quarters.
Three handkerchiefs formed also an appropriate present to the Sheikhs of Edree.
I said that nothing could be given until the Sheikhs and the people of Ghât did something for the Queen--for the presents were the Queen's presents.
The missionaries, of course, are regarded by him and his Sheikhs as the embodiment of the heresies of an infidel Government.
Some of the talibs and Sheikhs were sitting round the tank and in the courtyard of the mosque, and appeared not a little surprised to see the Bannu Daktar Sahib come to their own Mecca.
He then returns to the grand reception-room, takes his seat at the head of the divan amid the throng of Sheikhs and other invited guests.
The Moslem Sheikhsand others profess to cure the evil eye, and prevent its evil effects by writing mystic talismanic words on papers, which are to be worn.
The blind Sheikhs have remarkable memories and sharp ears, and can detect the slightest error in pronunciation or rendering, so they are employed in the most of the Moslem-schools.
Then he gives a spoonful of wine, first to the Sheikhs present, and then to all the rest.
This tribe was divided into the great Sheikhsand the little Sheikhs, and among the latter was the Sheikh Khottar.
More than twenty years ago in the little Druze village of Aitath, in Lebanon, about seven miles from Beirût, lived a family of Druze Sheikhs of the tribe of Telhûk.
Even when they seek to obtain the consolations of the Gospel by learning to read the Word of life, they are surrounded by priests andSheikhs who watch their chance to destroy the "Bread of Life!
The principal merchants here are the Sheikhs En-Noor and Lousou, and the other Tuarick of Asben, whom I have mentioned, called Haj Abdoua.
I have already mentioned that the Sultan of Aghadez, though elected and controlled by a kind of aristocracy of sheikhs of various tribes, is invested with the power of life and death.
About a century ago, their Sheikhsand the greater part of the Tanelkums were destroyed by a razzia of the Tibboos.
The brother of the present sultan was accustomed to go out every month, and bring in razzias of slaves, particularly to Dura, a country which belongs half to the Sheikhs of the Fullans.
The submission of sheikhsand their followers had to be received, the pursuit of the Khalifa pressed, wounded dervishes and prisoners provided for, as well as the thousands of poor in Omdurman helped in various ways.
The Sirdar held several receptions, whereat the principal native leaders and sheikhs attended.
Report had been brought that hundreds of lessersheikhs and leaders were in the town ready to surrender with their followers if their lives would be spared.
In a house to house visitation the more important rebel sheikhs and Baggara in hiding were caught and kept under arrest with their followers.
As if that were not enough in the way of shutting the door behind the Khalifa, sheikhs came down from the Blue Nile provinces, seeking protection.
Worse still, Sheikhs Ed Din and Khalifa Khalil, returned from chasing the Egyptian cavalry, were hastening with their division at full speed to attack him in rear.
The multitude, who were accompanied by many influential sheikhs flying from Mahdist misrule, sent a deputation to the Sirdar asking his assistance to take and hold El Obeid.
Evidently too the ideal king of Israel was, like Bedouin sheikhs now, expected to be rich, able to maintain his state out of his own revenues.
According to this the tribes whom Moses led were ruled in the main by their own sheikhs or elders.
As such, his decision was final in all matters too difficult for the sheikhs and judges.
The private receptions prior to this proclamation had already made the Sheikhs and Notables cognisant of the situation as regards Turkey.
The Sudan Sheikhs and Ulema knew the evils of Turkish rule, said the Address, from bitter experience.
After spending some time in Cairo he visited the Sudan and held receptions of Sheikhs and notables at various centres.
General Sir John Maxwell assembled at the British Agency a number of Bedouin Sheikhs and informed them that Germany had been successful in inducing the men in power at Constantinople to quarrel with the Allies.
The gathering of Sheikhs and Ulema at Khartoum was addressed by Sir Reginald Wingate.
Immediately after his entry into Cairo he appointed nine sheikhs to form a divan, or council, consulting daily on public order and the food-supplies of the city.
Some hundred sheikhs were there present: they swayed their bodies to and fro while the story of Mahomet's life was recited; and Bonaparte afterwards partook of an oriental repast.
So he turned to him and knowing him, said to him, "By Allah, it is thou slayest me and slayest my mother and slewest the sheikhs and the Imam of the Mosque!
The sheikhs had convoked their tribes, and were making preparations to attack the Timihû "towards the west corner of the heaven," in that region where stand the pillars which support the iron firmament at the setting sun.
It is at these watering-places, which belong to the Bedouins, that the Sheikhs of the tribes meet the caravan, and receive the accustomed tribute.
Kotobeddyn relates, that the Sheikhs of Mekka stole the golden lamps suspended in the Kaaba, and conveyed them away in the wide sleeves of their gowns.
In the time of the Wahabys it was completely secure; the Sheikhs of the Harb, and the whole tribe being made responsible for all depredations committed in their territory.
Almost every town in the eastern part of Syria furnishes its beasts for the purpose; and the great Bedouin Sheikhs of the frontiers of that country contract largely for camels with the government of Damascus.
Most of the Sheikhs of the tribe of Harb, and the two great southern Wahaby chiefs, Othman el Medheyfe and Tamy, were present, with two of the sons of Saoud.
Upon these occasions, the Sherif was joined also by other Bedouins, who returned with their Sheikhs to their homes, as soon as the expedition was terminated.
It was the first on the islands, and all the sheikhs came to see its marvellous build and wonderful work.
For many of the sheikhs had houses in the city, in which they spent the hot months of the year, while their people were encamped in the low hill country not far off, where the heat is less fierce than in the plains and the deserts.
Or we will give her in marriage to one of the sheikhs who will take her away to the desert.
He issued a proclamation of his own, asking all the sheikhs who stood aloof from him or against him, what they had to gain by supporting a pasha who was the next day going to give the Soudan up.
They were like the Arab sheikhs at Berber, who, when they found that the Egyptian pashas were going to evacuate, went over to the Mahdi.
I was obliged, however, to comply with my orders from Khartum; I therefore summoned the Sheikhs of the various Arab tribes to Dara, and informed them of the claims of the merchants against them.
We picked up a wounded Arab, who told us that Mohammed Abu Salama and several Habbania Sheikhs were still with Madibbo, but that Sheikh Jango, owing to the heavy losses he had suffered at Om Waragat, had returned to the Bahr el Ghazal.
The Sheikh El Obeid, one of the great religious Sheikhs of the Sudan, had collected together his followers at Halfaya to besiege Khartum.
Telling Saleh to bring the Sheikhs before me the next morning at the same hour, I galloped off with my escort to the camp.
A few days later the troops with the Bedeyat Sheikhs arrived, and in order to impress them, I ordered out all the garrison, and in the evening we had a grand firework display in their honour.
We once or twice had to ask for corn, and always had the same difficulty in getting the Sheikhs to accept the receipt; but as I insisted, they generally ended by gladly taking it.
The chief of the Beni Shangul districts--Tur el Guri--and many of the neighbouring Sheikhs have declared themselves independent.
While at my zariba at Deain, Sheikh Afifi Wad Ahmed of the Habbania, accompanied by Sheikhs Khamis Wad Nenya and Khudr Wad Girba, arrived with twenty horsemen, and gave me assurances of their loyalty to Government.
He wrote numbers of letters to the leading sheikhs and principal people in Cairo, and had he not died, there is no doubt his influence would have permeated, in no small degree, into Egypt.
Some of the Darfur sheikhs had gone as far as to apply to the Sultan of Borgo for help, but he had refused to interfere in any way with Mahdieh.
He then said that Egypt had lost the Sudan, and that Gordon would not be able to withstand the Mahdi; most of the fikis and sheikhs had already submitted to the Mahdi, and the Sudan was in their hands.
It was about this time that the principal sheikhsof the powerful Kababish tribe, viz.
Several of the sheikhs and ulemas in Cairo and in other parts of Egypt had written to him inviting him to take possession of the country where, they assured him, he would be most cordially received.
A number of influential sheikhs and merchants took up his cause, and these he made to swear to remain faithful and true to him.
To further add to his prestige, he has also appointed an honourable council, composed of all the principal sheikhs of the great Sudan tribes.
Indeed, after the blockade had already begun, a band of Arabs under the two sheikhs Abiyatê and Aamu forced a way through the besieging lines and entered the city.
To the native mind a demonstration of this kind was more potent than any words, and the deputation of sheikhs left the alcove, carrying with them a tale which would be told to their children's children.
During one of these incursions two of their sheikhs encountered some men of noble mien in the vicinity of Tabor, and massacred them without compunction.
He goes about talking to the sheikhs as though we were all eating off the same corn-cob, and it seems to stupefy them; they don't grasp it.
But when the first thinning of the mists began, when the sun began to dissipate the rolling haze, Ali Wad Hei and his rebel sheikhswere suddenly startled by rifle-fire at close quarters, by confused noises, and the jar and roar of battle.
Ebn Ezra Bey had sought to keep quiet the sheikhs far south, but he had been shut up in Darffur for months, and had been in as bad a plight as David.
Achmet Pasha got them from under the very noses of the sheikhs before sunrise this morning.
Both Sheikhswere arrested, but a compromise was arranged.
He is a chief of the Begzadi Kurds whose prowess and activity have won him much local reputation, but who can boast no such formidable following as the Sheikhs of Neri or Barzan.
Mar Shimun among the former, and the Sheikhs of Barzan and Neri among the latter, may be quoted as parallel cases; and the practice has at least a respectable precedent in the house of Aaron among the Jews.
Followed by his guards, he follows the litter towards the pavilion, surrounded by a phalanx of sheikhs and alcaides.
Saddle my war-horse Suleiman, and let all the sheikhsfollow me, for it is written in the book of fate that these dogs of Christians are given into our hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheikhs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
