Examples of chieftain

• Both parties, under the chieftains' guidance, fought fiercely, in a fever of excitement, giving no heed to wounds, seeing nothing but the foe and the battlements to be scaled. 

• He was a powerful chieftain, and there was an old feud between him and the men of Chester. 

• He was straight American stock, but he was built like the chieftains of old Hawaii. 

• Possibly they were intended to mark the graves of deceased chieftains. 

• The messengers found the Saxon chieftains very ready to enter into Alfred's plans. 

• Some chieftains fought them and were subdued, others submitted and received a share of the territory.

• It is difficult to see how the local leaders could have managed without the approval of the chieftains.

• On seeing his son as a bandit chieftain, the old count does actually die of shock.