At the mouth of the Yaik he was met by an officer of the Czar's, sent by the voevoda of Astracan to offer him and his companions a free pardon on condition of their discontinuing their robberies.
But is the prince voevoda of Vilna besieged in Tykotsin?
The eyes of the most honest of them will be bursting out from desire; and if a scoundrel happens, such as the voevoda of Vilna, he is ready to betray the country.
The prince voevoda of Vilna is the only man who has joined them sincerely, and that act has turned out ill for him.
There is an officer here with letters from the voevoda of Vilna.
If you had brought me the appointment of voevoda of Vilna, it would not have given me more pleasure.
Moreover, though the Swedes had abandoned in his last need the voevoda of Vilna, it was reasonable to expect that they would have regard for his widow; hence, if Olenka was under her care, no evil could meet her.
The voevodaof Vilna is before the judgment of God.
The prince voevoda supposed in Tykotsin that he must be at Elblang with the King of Sweden, to whom he had to go for reinforcements.
This turned out to be really the fact, when soon after on the road banners began to gleam, and Voynillovich himself came up with the regiment of the voevoda of Bratslav.
The voevoda believed, for he could not refuse belief, especially since the king's letter confirmed the truth of Kmita's words.
At the moment when the king was saying that the voevoda of Vilna was standing, perhaps, before the judgment of God, he spoke as it were with a prophetic spirit, for at that hour the affair of Tykotsin was decided.
Pan Pototski, voevoda of Kamenyets, with Jolkevski, whirled around the steppes like an eagle.
But the voevoda permitted only Cossacks to go; he wished to bring the line into perfect order, which was done quickly, since he was an old warrior, experienced and very strict.
When he had heard this, the voevoda began to draw us up on those heights in order of battle.
The old essaul of the Cossacks dragged to the very feet of the voevoda a Murza; but he was strangled, for he had dragged him six furlongs, and his face was all torn by prickly plants of the steppe.
The main body of the Moskovite troops was under the direction of the voevoda Yakov Zakharievitch; the Letts were generalled by the hetman Konstantin Ostrojhskie.
The voevoda Shein defended himself with a small body of men in a tower, and only surrendered on a promise of the King's mercy.
At Yaroslavl the citizens came forth to welcome the approaching army, with ikons and provisions and gifts for the voevoda in command.
The Habsburg hopes were destined, however, to be again falsified, and a new rival sprang up against them in Stefan Batory, Voevoda of Transylvania.
Their bodies, exposed to the public view, bore traces of violence, and it was said that they had been strangled by some strielitz at the command of the voevoda Golitzuin.
A Venetian attached to the Polish Embassy at Moskva in 1570 described the Tzar as "the greatest tyrant who has ever existed," and mentions a delinquent voevoda being thrown to a savage bear, "kept for that purpose.
Adashev was sent in the capacity of voevoda to the newly acquired fortress of Fellin, and the man of Novgorod relapsed into the obscurity of the cloister.
A march of the Tverskie boyarins against Pereyaslavl was intercepted by Ivan, brother of the Prince of Moskva, and their voevoda Akinf (Hyacinth) perished in the battle which ensued.
A catastrophe which was suspiciously like a crime deprived him at once of the services of his ablest voevoda and of the lingering affections of the Moskvitchi.
At its broken feet lay the corpse of the voevoda who had been faithful to the death.
The voevoda of Poznan is a polished and learned man, therefore he will answer us very courteously and very graciously; but because he loves to pass for a Roman, his answer will be terribly Roman.
On a certain midday the voevodaof Poznan himself came to the bazaar, speaking courteously with this one and that, or blaming the king somewhat because in the face of the approaching enemy he had not sent a single squadron of soldiers.
The voevoda of Vilna took the letter in his hand and made the sign of the cross.
Yes, your grace; the cousin of the prince voevoda of Vilna.
The prince voevoda sent a man worthy of confidence," answered Kmita, "but you have lost him.
The voevoda laughed with the others, and when it had grown somewhat calm he said, with increased dignity: "And for this affair we must pay now with our blood and our heads.
Formerly it belonged to the Kishkis, from whom the father of the present prince received it as dowry with Panna Anna Kishki, daughter of the voevoda of Vityebsk.
See what was in that letter which Kovalski was taking to the Swedish commandant at Birji, and know the voevoda of Vilna, in case he was unknown to you hitherto.
The voevoda of Bratslav cut off retreat to the fugitives.
We serve under thevoevoda of Rus, and we have fought men different from you; but to-day it is impossible, and what is deferred will not escape.
Again therefore the tumult began when the voevoda of Kieff rose and gave a sign with his hand that he wanted to speak.
These knights learned all by chance in Korets, where they had come with messages from the voevoda of Vilna, and came here with me, for they had letters from the voevoda to our prince.
Neither courtesy and good-will nor the persuasions of the voevoda were of use.
Eighteen of such days passed before at last the answer came from Hmelnitski that he would not go to Kieff, but was waiting in Pereyaslav for the voevoda and the commissioners.
He is no Pagan at all, but a light-horse captain in the squadron of the voevoda of Vilna, who is escorting us to Warsaw, and has to wait for the voevoda there.
More than one officer frowned, gritted his teeth, and grasped his sabre; but remembering that that was a warrior from the squadron of the voevoda of Rus who took such liberty, he spat at last, and let the matter drop.
Footnote 19: Zagloba refers here to Pavel Sapyeha, voevoda of Vilna, and grand hetman of Lithuania.
In fact, the abbess, Mother Victoria, the daughter of Stefan Pototski, voevoda of Bratslav, received Basia with open arms.
We went to the Ukraine and against Pan Lyubomirski, and after the death of the voevoda of Rus, to the Ukraine a second time under Sobieski, the marshal of the kingdom.
Toward evening Pan Yablonovski, voevoda of Rus, came to him.
The battle seemed at times to roll on to the right, then to the left, now toward the Lithuanian armies, now toward the voevoda of Belsk, precisely as when in time of storm thunders roll over the sky.
After the course of an hour it seemed to the voevoda of Rus that the weight of the battle was transferred to the centre, directly in front of his cavalry.
Behind him and behind Korytski stood, under Pan Yablonovski, voevoda of Rus, fifteen squadrons of hussars in glittering armor, with helmets casting a threatening shade on their faces, and with wings at their shoulders.
Before Pan Michael had reached Warsaw, he received a commission issued by the voevoda of Rus.
Pan Hrapovitski was chosen to preside; he was at that time chamberlain of Smolensk, and afterward voevoda of Vityebsk.
But the greatest interest was roused by the arrival of Prince Michael Chartoryski, the voevoda of Sandomir, who stopped at Prityk on his way to the Diet at Warsaw and, in waiting for the festival, had passed some days in devotion.
I know not where the voevoda of Volynia is quartered at present, nor where Zbierhovski's command is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voevoda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
