The Toquibowed gravely, the general placed the paper before him, wrote a few lines rapidly, and signed them.
Such as had been able to fly had at first wandered about the woods without an object; but as soon as they learned that the Toqui had succeeded in escaping, they re-assembled, and sent envoys to him to demand assistance.
Notwithstanding all his cunning, the Toqui did not for an instant suspect a stratagem.
Deliver up to the Toqui the order which Don Tadeo de Leon has charged you.
But even the strength of the renowned Toqui was not of avail against the insidious poison he quaffed so greedily; his eyes closed, and he fell backwards--fast asleep.
One of the horsemen immediately replied-- "Go and tell the Toqui that a general officer has an important communication to make to him.
The Toqui alone suspected some treachery planned against himself; but his countenance remained impassive, and he asked his Ulmens to accompany him to the council fire.
While these things were going on in the defile, a few words exchanged between Antinahuel and the Linda filled the Toqui with uneasiness, by making him vaguely suspicious of some treachery.
Toqui replied, following with a malevolent glance the last ranks of the Chilian soldiers.
My brother will see," the Toqui said, laconically.
At this happy result a smile of indefinable meaning lighted the features of the Toqui for a second.
The girls seemed lost in this human labyrinth, wandering haphazard, and trusting to Providence or their lucky stars to discover the abode of the great Toqui in this confused mass of toldos.
Far from you and me be the thought that I have any intention to force myself on you as chief and grand Toqui of the army!
While the Toquiwas plunged in these reflections a hand was laid heavily on his shoulder.
Kelzulepan, my ancestor, Ulmen of the Pehuenches, carried off a white slave belonging to Medzeliputzi, Toqui of the Aucas, and great grandfather of Nocobotha.
All," a voice replied, "with the exception of Nocobotha, the grand Toqui of the Aucas.
The Toqui of the Aucas laid his hand on his machete, and shouted in a loud and menacing voice-- "A traitor is among us!
Black-Stag cried, pointing to him with his finger; "the great toqui is holding conference with his nymph!
I suppose so; the four toquis cast the hatchet into the fire, and a supreme toqui was elected in their place.
Antinahuel resumed; "the toqui of his nation interrogates him.
The Toqui was led back by his child, whom he pardoned.
The grief of the Toqui was immense at this unworthy and disloyal treachery.
At this news the toqui could not repress a movement of impatience, but he soon recovered himself.
This party was represented by Antinahuel, the toqui of the most important Uthal-Mapus of the Araucanian confederacy.
At length Cathicara, the toqui of the Pire-Mapus, made a few steps towards the centre of the circle, and took the initiative.
The Sayotkatta at length spoke: "The hatchet is dug up, the toqui has just been proclaimed, and the hour has arrived to stain the hatchet.
On perceiving the formidable toqui of the Moluchos, the warriors respectfully fell back to let him pass, and Tahi-Mari entered the hut.
The natives had now become exceedingly powerful under the conduct of a Mestizo, named Alonzo Diaz, who had been raised to the rank of toqui by the name of Paynenauca, and who had been joined by the Chiquillanians and the Pehuenches.
In his time, the Araucanians besieged the fort of Arauco, and being defeated, the toqui resigned his command to Nangoniel his son, who was killed in attacking another fortress.
All these magistrates have distinctive badges; the toqui a hatchet; the Apo Ulmen a silver-headed rod encircled by a ring; and the Ulmen a rod with a silver head; and these dignities are hereditary.
About this time, the Araucanians began to show some symptoms of an inclination to break the treaty, and in 1722, they elected Vilumilla their toqui or war-chief.
As the Araucanians had recovered most of the spoil, and taken some prisoners while the Spanish army was in disorder, the toqui did not think proper to risk too much on the event of battle, and sounded a retreat.
The toqui soon afterwards came to the place appointed, with a small guard of forty soldiers, and accompanied by several ulmens, bringing likewise along with him a number of Spanish prisoners of the first families, whom he set at liberty.
The toqui was extremely indignant on this occasion, though less exasperated by the flight of his wives, than by the kind reception they had experienced among the Spaniards.
Aillavilu the toqui gave little attention to the proposed negociation, which he deemed a feint for deceiving and surprising him.
The vice-toqui is almost always elected from among the Puelches, to gratify the ambition of that valiant tribe, which forms about a fourth part of the population of the confederacy.
The exasperated toqui no sooner learnt the arrival of the missionaries at Ilicura, than he hastened to that place with two hundred horse, and slew them all with their defender Utiflame.
The new toqui immediately assembled an army, with which he crossed the Biobio, intending to attack the city of Conception, which according to his information was only defended by a small number of soldiers.
The young toqui unhesitatingly accepted the challenge, and, animating his soldiers both by his exhortations and example, fell with such fury upon the Spaniards, that he entirely defeated them.
In 1656, the toqui crossed the Biobio, completely defeated the governor Acugna in the plains of Yumbel, destroyed the forts of San Christoval and Estancia del Rey, and burned the city of Chillan.
Quepuantu, who was advanced to the rank of toqui after the defeat at Alvarrada, retired to a sequestered vale under the covert of thick woods, where he built a house with four opposite doors, to facilitate his escape in case of being attacked.
But it was taken and destroyed in the same year in which it was built by the toqui Curimilla.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toqui" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
