The languages of the different tribes differ very much.
Each canoe's crew settled in different parts of the North Island, and were the founders of the different great tribes into which the New Zealanders were divided.
From north to south the princes meet To pay their homage at His feet, While western empires own their Lord, And savage tribes attend His word.
Green tribes from far come trooping, And over the uplands flock; He weaveth the zones together In robes for his risen rock.
The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe.
He has been trying to get the Indian tribes to unite and kill all of the whites.
All the tribes welcome us, and we belong to all the tribes, and we have wandered for years and years.
We are not like other people here, though all the tribes treat us well and give us food and shelter.
Here the Sacs and Foxes roamed free; the Iowas and the tribes of the North.
The exterminating wars among the native tribes had left these grassy plains almost wholly unoccupied.
Subject to this supremacy, the native chiefs and tribes are still left to manage their own affairs, according to their original laws and customs.
And so Paul, in his words before King Agrippa, "Unto which promise our twelve tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come.
The children were placed out here and there through the tribes and divisions of the land, which was the family estate, but Jerusalem was the family mansion.
He is not ashamed to make a destitute stranger, who but a day before depended on the bounty of his hand, the companion of his wealth and honour, and the builder of his house and name among the tribes of Israel.
Tuan then goes on to tell how Semion son of Stariat settled in Ireland, from whom descended the Firbolgs and two other tribes who persisted into historic times.
There is nothing to justify this singling out of two Low-German tribes when we wish to indicate the race-character of the British people.
It would seem as if a number of different tribes embodied what were fundamentally the same conceptions under different names and wove different legends about them.
I swear to God what the great tribes of Ulster swear: he is a coward who goes out of a fight alive having left his lord with his foes in death.
The boar was sacred to Freyr, who was the favorite god of the Germanic tribes about the North Sea and the Baltic.
Scandinavian shore, or the roar of the thunder and the sweep of the whirlwind over the Tartar steppe, the training of the tribes which burst in upon the iron frontier of the Great Empire, and left it clay?
Again in the 6th century Slavic tribes forced their way westward under pressure from the Mongolian Avars who took possession of Dacia, Pannonia and Dalmatia.
The various Germanic groups of tribes now presented themselves, followed by other warlike races, Huns, Slavs, Magyars, etc.
But he was driven by an irresistible impulse to devote himself to the heathen tribes of Germany.
For a similar significance cannot be ascribed to the appearance at a somewhat later period of a motley crowd of Slavic tribes and a detached contingent of the Turanian-Altaic race (Finns, Magyars, etc.
We are at a loss to know the distribution of tribes in the centre and in the north-west, but the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, we may rest assured, never formed an ethnographical frontier.
A current of invasion, having its origin in the region of the Atlas, or possibly even in Europe, was setting towards the Nile, forcing before it the scattered tribes of the Sudan.
It had continued to increase in size since the days of Mînephtah, and its population had been swelled by the annexation of several strange tribes inhabiting the vast area of the Sahara.
Travels of an Egyptian, speaks in several places of marauding tribes and robbers, who infested the roads followed by the hero.
He had undertaken the usual raids in the South against the negroes and the tribes of the Upper Nile.
A certain number of these tribes or of their towns are to be found in the list contained in the treaty of Ramses II.
The nationality of these tribes is evidenced by the names of their chiefs, which recall exactly those of the Numidians--Massyla, Massinissa, Massiva.
It was imperative to send succour to the few tribes who remained faithful, to prevent them from succumbing to the repeated attacks of the insurgents.
Kûsh was pacified, notwithstanding the raids which the tribes of the desert were accustomed to make from time to time, only to receive on each occasion rigorous chastisement from the king's viceroy.
One of the most powerful tribes of the Carians, the Tremilse, were in the eyes of the Greeks hardly to be separated from the mountainous district which they knew as Lycia proper; while other tribes extended as far as the Halys.
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The people thronged forth by their tribes to greet him.
When he summoned the city tribes to renew their oath of allegiance, and to enrol themselves as soldiers, the result was such a failure that he had to order each household to furnish a proportionate number of slaves.
Among many tribesagriculture was relied upon to supply an important--and perhaps in the case of a few tribes, the most important--part of the food supply.
In the case of our Indian tribes feuds and internecine conflicts were common between members of the same linguistic family.
According to Omaha tradition, the Arikara were their allies when these two tribes and several others were east of the Mississippi River.
This comprises the Arikara or Ree, now confined to a small village (on Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota,) which they share with the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes of the Siouan family.
The interior of Alaska is chiefly occupied by tribes of this family.
It's a good thing for us if the tribes are out as our allies.
In the old times they used up whole tribes and regiments of captives that way.
Moreover, there had been local changes and wide bush-growths during the years which had elapsed since the tribes of the Guadalupe and Nueces River country had been exterminated.
Tetzcatl speaks for the tribes of the mountains," he loudly declared, and his deep, guttural voice had in it a harsh and grating tone.
The strongest military post in all Texas was an old, fortified mission, and it had been well planned by Spanish engineers to resist probable attacks from the fierce coast-tribes which had now disappeared.
As yet, the strength of these tribes had not been broken.
Probably the Teutonic tribes had already commenced to apply pressure to the Celtic inhabitants of Rhine-land in the fourth century before the Christian era.
It consisted of the Chauci, the Cherusci, and the Chatti, and of several other tribes of greater or less renown.
In the fourth century the principal tribes in Western Germany were the Franks and the Alemanni, the former of whom maintained a constant strife with the Saxons, who pressed heavily upon their rear.
The Germanic Tribes It is also from Tacitus that we glean what were the names and descriptions of those tribes who occupied the territory adjacent to the Rhine.
His whole life was one prolonged war undertaken against the forces of paganism, the Moors of Spain who harassed his borders to the south, and the restless Saxon tribes dwelling between the Rhine, Weser, and Elbe.
He conquered the tribes on the left bank, and was followed a generation or so later by Augustus, who established numerous fortified posts on the river.
Observing that half, at least, of the Roman forces were on leave, he incited the tribes of Lower Saxony to revolt.
The pinion, the fruit of the pine, was largely used, and until now annual expeditions are made by the few surviving members of the coast tribes to the mountains for a supply.
A land, it is true, where wild beasts lurk and prowl, and where unknown tribes of savages wander hither and thither and hunt and fight, but all as free as the wind that wantons through their forest trees.
The new world, also, presents a similar phenomenon, as some of the tribes of the ancient Toltecs of Mexico developed a system of picture-writing resembling somewhat that of North American Indians and akin to the ancient hieroglyphs.
The wars which spread Christianity were not yet entirely over, but we only hear of them now on the outskirts, so to speak, of Europe, except where some tribes apostatized now and then, and were brought back to the true faith by the sword.
These two tribes were not actually at war, nor were they at peace; they were merely upon what is termed ill terms with each other--a very dangerous time for strangers to have any dealings with either.
In the most ancient of these languages, tribes or assemblies of people are called Habesh, which appellation was therefore supposed to have been given to the whole country now known to us by the name of Abyssinia.
The uncivilized tribes which surround, as well as inhabit Abyssinia, having been now described, the character of the Abyssinians themselves will appear in the following short abstract of their history.
During the summer, the Shangalla tribes subsist on the animals which they catch; but, in order to provide for the rainy season, they prepare their food in a very singular manner.
Abyssinia has therefore been compared to a bow, of which the Shangalla tribes on the north form the string, and the various nations of the Galla the arch.
Italy, Poland, the former Spanish possessions and the polyglot tribesof Austria-Hungary have spilled here a thick lather of their effervescent sons.
They come by families, gangs, clambake societies, clans, clubs and tribes from all sides to enjoy a cool sleep on the grass.
Long they lived in peace together, Spake with naked hearts together, Pondering much and much contriving How thetribes of men might prosper.
How are the representatives of fifty-three tribes to be put through their paces?
But if you refuse, then either I must force you, which is hateful to me, or there will be such a war as the city has not known for generations, for Ithobal and his tribes have many grievances against us.
This is my business, Sakon: For many years I and the countless tribes whom I rule have suffered much at the hands of you Phoenicians, who centuries ago settled here in my country as traders.
Ay, and I will make it, for, filled with hate for the white man, already the great tribes are gathering to my banners in ten armies, each of them ten thousand strong.
Have you heard, Phoenician, that the chiefs of certain of my tribes love to decorate their spear-shafts with the hide of white men, and to bray their flesh into a medicine which gives courage to its eater?
They are akin to thetribes of fairy, survivals of the elder time when the woods and hills swarmed with the little green folk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tribes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
