Judges, or rather arbiters, may be agreed upon by the plaintiff and defendant; and if no decision is obtained from them, their fellow-tribesmen shall judge.
It is singular with what perfect faith and confidence these rude tribesmen accept any statement I choose to make, and how eagerly they seem to dwell on simple statements of facts that are known to every school-boy in Christendom.
No human habitations are visible save the now familiar black tents of Koordish tribesmen away off to the north, and as I ride along I am overtaken by a sensation of being all alone in the company of an overshadowing and awe-inspiring presence.
Beyond Dongola, at a place appointed, other camels would await them, if Mahmoud's tribesmen there kept faith.
Their tribesmen will follow when they see the camels.
Afridis, Afghans, and the various Pathan tribesmen of the corps looked forward to the sacking of the wealthy city.
So the tribesmen now offered their services in such numbers that they had to be refused.
The Kumaji tribesmen had never accepted the colony as a fact of their life on the desert, and in a way Steve could not blame them.
He thought it would help if he could find some of the nomadic tribesmen and kill them.
When the tribe's land was parching for lack of rain the tribesmen danced for the rain to come.
The historian Herodotus, who was no sophist but loved a good story, tells how the Persian king, Darius, called some Greeks and some Indian tribesmen together into his presence.
The almost incredulous fury with which the wild tribesmen learned the news of their beloved Patriarch's murder can, perhaps, be barely imagined by people less primitive than they.
Even for an uncumbered army this could hardly be thought a promising enterprise; and the tribesmen were but ill-armed and poorly disciplined.
They saw the fate that had overtaken their co-religionists, the Armenians and Jacobites; the fate that had befallen their own fellow-tribesmen in the outlying districts to the East.
It says much for mountain chivalry that he recognized the claim of the suppliant without hesitation, and promised to do his best, if it was in his power to control his own tribesmen under the circumstances.
Still, we have heard of cases; notably that of a Seer whom his fellow tribesmen consulted on all matters of importance, and who foretold at the last the disaster that would befall them in one special raid.
It was easier to give the Patriarch, whom the tribesmen did reverence, a few decorations and a small salary, and to set him to collect such tribute as he could get the tribesmen to pay.
It was the first regular pitched battle, and the tribesmen were somewhat awed at the prospect of engaging the Hukumet; for which cause, in order to inspirit them, the Sheikh himself fired the first shot.
With the Assyrian tribesmen in the mountains the crisis had not developed so rapidly.
The tribesmenhave made the discovery that if a European is molested there is almost inevitably a row.
He had taken the precaution of bringing a garrison of his own tribesmen with him to his new post, so the attack failed; but he thought it more prudent to leave the city that night and go home.
Its inhabitants escaped conquest by the Persians under King Darius, and avoided the fate of their fellow tribesmen on land, who were subdued and removed as colonists to Asia.
The unstable, fanatical tribesmen of the Egyptian Sudan, temporarily but effectively united under the Mahdi, made it necessary for Kitchener to do again in 1898 the work of subjugation which Gordon had done thirty years before.
Pursuit of the retreating tribesmen is dangerous and often futile.
Similarly, the hunting folk of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa attach themselves to influential tribesmen of the adjacent Bechuana grasslands, in order to exchange the skins of the desert animals for spears, knives, and tobacco.
The nomadic tribesmen throughout the Sahara, whether of Hamitic, Semitic or Negro race, show this type, and retain it even after several generations of settlement in the river valleys of the Sudan.
There was something in the hard independent tribesmen that reminded him of the Ulster Scot.
Crouched now, advancing under cover of the shallow cut-bank, the headdresses of a score of the Western tribesmen could be seen.
He passed away down to where the canoes lay and held converse with some of the tribesmen there, and there was silence in the camp.
Antipathies of this kind have directly influenced the moral valuation of conduct towards foreigners; but at the same time they have also strengthened the feelings of mutual goodwill between tribesmen or compatriots.
And if he is a member of another tribe, the vengeance may be wreaked upon his fellow-tribesmen indiscriminately.
We have noticed that men in their estimation of human life, particularly at the earlier stages of culture, discriminate between fellow-tribesmen or compatriots and aliens.
Here it was, in the district which he ruled so wisely and well, that Nicholson's early reputation was made; and here it is that among the wild tribesmen whom he tamed to his will his memory is still fondly cherished.
Bannuchi and Waziri tribesmen had carried a faithful report of his doings to their more northern compatriots, and the word quickly went round that "Nikalseyn" was a dangerous man to flout.
The tribesmen of the kingdom of Tahara were in the fields, cultivating the ground while others were chipping flint arrowheads and making bows and spears.
And some miles back from here we are close to a river where my tribesmen have many canoes.
But the tribesmen were not so fortunate as to go unscathed through the second attack.
Warned by their scout who had been shot at by Mutaba, the tribesmen of Chief Mobogoma were prepared for battle.
He emptied his gun without effect and before he could reload, the tribesmen were almost upon him, yelling and brandishing their weapons.
These two warriors led the way, and for his bodyguard, the Boy King took two Taharan tribesmen armed with bows and arrows and flint knives.
Dan broke into a college song and the tribesmen took up the air and shouted it at the top of their lungs.
Dick's main worry was that Jess Slythe might appear in his stolen monoplane and drop bombs upon the tribesmen as he had done before.
Before them raced the riderless horse, zig-zagging to avoid the tribesmen who yelled and waved their arms at it.
His tribesmen followed, brandishing their weapons and echoing the war cry: "Tahara, hal!
Dick, Dan and Raal were riding ahead on their Arab horses and the rest of the tribesmen were mounted on the small wild horses that Dick and Dan had trained to the saddle.
Long before daylight the tribesmen were up, making ready for the second day's march toward the jungle.
And perhaps Mahatma Sikandar will ask one of his tribesmen to guide us in the shortest way!
As the tribesmen scampered to safety, the great plane banked and leveled for a landing, while the pilot searched for a safe spot.
Dan and Ray had joined the party now, while most of the tribesmen gathered about, staring at the damaged Meteorite.
The chiefs answered with shouts of triumph and the tribesmen joined in.
The result of the habit of carrying off the white children may be seen in the features of many of the tribesmen today.
To leave the impression that it was the work of the tribesmen they scalped their victims, ran off their stock, and burned their wagons.
The first snow fall was a harbinger of peace, as the tribesmen do not favor the winter time as one fitted for the activities of warfare.
Such an apparition would most likely interfere with the completion of the programme, and the tribesmen would probably seek shelter or protection from the whirring, roaring monster, in the depths of the nearby timber.
Followed by a numerous retinue oftribesmen he started for the Black Hills and had passed through the Crooked Creek Valley, killing the settlers.
I could see the heads of the tribesmen lifting like wolves taking a new scent, and mothers tighten their clutch on their children.
And as he spoke they could see the eagle bonnets of the tribesmencoming up the hollow, every man mounted, with his round shield and the point of his lance tilted forward.
Only the tribesmen increased their clamor, war-drums booming and voices raised in savage folk songs.
Hay Stockard alone regained the surface, flinging the tribesmen aside like yelping curs.
The corps of sappers which he commanded was a remarkable body--a strange medley of Hindustanees, Goorkhas, and Afghan tribesmen of divers regions.
But he probably believed that the Afghans flanking the road were casual tribesmenfrom the adjacent villages who were unlikely to make any stand, and he determined to move on.
Received with a heavy fire from a large body of men while swarms of hostile tribesmen showed themselves on the adjacent hills, the horsemen had to withdraw.
Baker's rear-guard was scarcely clear of the valley when a mob of tribesmen and sepoys attacked the fort in which the old Sirdar was residing, shot him through the head, and then hacked his body to pieces.
Gough was already at Jugdulluk when he received the order calling him to Cabul, but he had to wait for reinforcements and supplies, and the tribesmen were threatening his position and the line of communication in rear of it.
The flame spread, tribesmen and disbanded soldiers sprang to arms, the banner of the Prophet was unfurled, and the nation heaved with the impulse of fanaticism.
Captain Poole, observing that the tribesmen were moving to cut him off, withdrew his party through a defile in his rear, and taking cover under the river bank maintained a steady fire while the camels were being retired.
The tribesmen interfered with the roadmaking operations of his sappers in the vicinity of Sheikabad, and some fighting occurred in very rugged country on the 23d.
The tribesmen for the most part carried off into the hills their moveable effects, and the destruction of their petty forts apparently gave them little concern.
Just here the tribesmen had constructed a formidable abattis of prickly brushwood, which stretched athwart the road, and dammed back the fugitives in the shallow oval basin between the termination of the ravine and the summit of the ridge.
So they ate the slain bear at a communal feast in which the tribesmen shared the guilt and celebrated their community with their totem and with each other.
The Indian woman, Nancy Ward, who in '76 had given the settlers timely warning of the intended attack by her tribesmen here came into camp.
A Moi who has some cause of complaint against one of his fellow tribesmen observes his tracks and follows him until he reaches the spot where his enemy has relieved himself.
It is well known that in the primitive ages of the Aryan races the tribesmenwere not only shepherds rather than warriors but also essentially nomadic in habit.
Glad as the tribesmen were to be freed from the arbitrary exactions of their chiefs, they held them for chieftains still.
The tribal system of property in common was set aside, and the communal holdings of the tribesmen turned into the copyholds of English law.
They were reduced to the position of great nobles and landowners, while their tribesmenrose from subjects into tenants, owing only fixed and customary dues and services to their lords.
The governor's inquiries were limited to the state of the country, the behavior of the tribesmen along the road, the state of the wells, and the amount of provisions obtainable along the line of route.
Not exactly, though tribesmenmay have regarded it that way.
It's barely possible some of those tribesmen followed him here, hoping to recover the Zudi drum.
Think you that the tribesmen would then accept my counsels to leave the Fens and return to their homes?
Accordingly the tribesmen proceeded to the open fields a mile away, where they had been accustomed to drill, and they were followed by the whole of those gathered round the village.
Since the news of the capture of Mona had arrived, the tribesmen had drilled with increased alacrity and eagerness.
They halted at a short distance from the gate, for sentries would be on guard there, and remained for nearly an hour, as many of the other tribesmen had a considerably longer distance to go to reach their appointed stations.
I have brought four of my tribesmen with me," Beric said, "and we are all capable of carrying good loads.
In an instant the tribesmen swarmed round the statues, ropes were attached to the massive figures, and Jupiter, Mars, and Minerva fell to the ground with a crash, as did the statue of the Emperor Claudius.
Our tribesmenhave been waiting nigh an hour for you.
The chiefs represented that already many of their bravest tribesmen had fallen, and it would be folly to risk a heavy loss in the attack upon such a position.
The horns were at once sounded, the tribesmen flocked back to the positions from which they had charged, and resumed their garments.
Beric had a long talk with Boduoc and ten of the tribesmen of the latter's company.
The conversation between the Druid and Parta had been heard by others in the hall, and the news spread rapidly among the tribesmen as they returned from the chase.
After entertaining their guests in the hall, Parta and her son went round among the tribesmen outside and saw that they had all they needed, and spoke pleasantly even to the poorest among them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tribesmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
