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Sentences starting with chief

Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
Chief among them was Vic, who kept her eyes fixed on Old Roses. [11]
Chief of all was the renowned Bend Or, a Derby winner, a noble and beautiful bay, destined in a few weeks to gain new honors on the same turf in the triumph of his offspring Ormonde, whose acquaintance we shall make by-and-by. [6]
Chief among these was the Duncan house--still so called, although Mr. Duncan, who built it, had been dead these fifteen years, and his daughter and heiress, Janet, had married an Italian Marquis and lived in a Roman palace, rehabilitated by the Duncan money. [9]
Chief among these was the bookmaker. [11]
Chief among these, and, indeed, the only one I just now think of, is their great care while doing business to avoid disturbing people's sleep. [5]

Sentences ending with chief

I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief. [5]
The Emperor was with the first army, but not as commander in chief. [2]
He played sneak with the daughter of Five Fingers, an Injin chief. [11]
I know right well that I owe you my warmest thanks, and equally so that he whom you call our master has inflicted as deep a wrong on us as on you; but Caesar is still my military chief. [10]
And Dragging Canoe was their chief. [9]
People accustomed to think in that way forget, or do not know, the inevitable conditions which always limit the activities of any commander in chief. [2]
The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. [2]
When at last the Returning Officer announced the result, the agent dared not glance at his defeated chief. [11]
It was in the garden of the Tuileries, and twenty-four battalions of the Old Guard filed past our great chief. [11]
Never in all the four years had he approached this lodge of Mitiahwe, who, the daughter of a chief, should have married himself, the son of a chief! [11]

Short sentences using chief

Then the chief spoke again. [9]
The chief was silent. [11]
The chief said nothing. [11]
That was the chief thing. [11]
Hail to our chief Senator! [10]
The daughter of Chief John. [11]
Where is the chief haruspex? [10]
Disgust was his chief feeling. [11]
My chief laughed a little. [9]
O chief, harken! [11]

Sentences containing chief two or more times

But what can you expect of a chief justice who need not be a lawyer, as this one is not, and has other means of earning income which, though not disloyal, are lowering to the status of a chief justice? [11]
On every hand we behold those who but yesterday were the chief of sinners, now the chief apostles of the cause. [7]
The operation of the several departments of the Quartermaster- General, Commissary-General, Paymaster-General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, and Surgeon-General. [7]
The quarters of the Chief Eunuch separated the suite from the harem, and Mizraim, the present Chief Eunuch, was a man of power in the Palace, knew more secrets, was more courted, and was richer than some of the princes. [11]
I was chief rogue in a shipful of rogues, chief sinner in a hell of sinners, and yet I had no remorse and no regret. [11]
When the dinner ended, little joy Agnew, daughter of the chief editor, entered and presented to the chief guest the original drawing of a cartoon by Bernard Partridge, which had appeared on the front page of Punch. [5]
On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups, the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world (when the wind blew) that his shop was on hand for business at that corner. [5]
Then Jim's eyes blazed, and he turned a look of anger on the chief, his face pale and hard, as he said: "The stream rises above the banks; come with me, chief, or all will drown. [11]
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon keeper, occupied the same level in society, and it was the highest. [5]

More example sentences with the word chief in them

Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
In that ability you know I once prided myself as the only or chief gem of my character; that gem I lost--how and where you know too well. [7]
The great chief Yellow Arm is fallen. [11]
During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America's chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. [5]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
And this course would be his own course largely, since he had been appointed to be a force and strength in the Foreign Office which his chief did not supply. [11]
How in the world does it happen that you, who so often have helped us with your father's coin, have come down to be the chief of a band of travelling musicians? [10]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
Let the Hungry Wolf tell his companions that the Chief of the Long Knives is very angry. [9]
We cannot agree with those who confuse this personage with the chief of the Kolchytes. [10]
The responsibility is with the novelist and the writer of stories, the chief characteristic of which is vulgar commonplace. [4]
The chief steward, with that anxious civility which beauty can inspire in even so great a personage, conducted her to her seat beside me. [11]
By his influence with Ismail he had even more power at last than the Chief Eunuch or the valet-de-chambre, before whom the highest officials bowed low. [11]
They went down with all on board, no doubt, not even sparing that knightly chief mate. [5]
Subsequently his brother William wrote him that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for him the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department. [4]
If the Parson will permit me, I should say that the chief clothes question abroad just now is, how to get any; and it is the same with the dinners. [4]
Meantime, the data will be arranged by those people who have charge of all such matters, the great chief Brahmins. [5]
At last the wife of a foreign trader cried: "Let him give us the gold, and we'll leave the handsome young chief his bleeding sweetheart. [10]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
The chief steward, who considered the young count's attempts almost insane--unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs--made some concessions. [2]
The next morning while her father was gone to consult the chief army- surgeon at Noumea, Marie strolled with Angers in the grounds. [11]
In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
By the pond where all the people drank, performed their ablutions, bathed their bodies and rinsed their mouths, sat the sheikh-el-beled, the village chief, taking counsel in sorrow with the barber, the holy man, and others. [11]
It was dark when we left the Club, and I recall the elation I felt and strove to conceal as I accompanied my chief back to the office. [9]
He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. [5]
To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
If the deceased were not a chief, the house only was defiled which became pure again on the burial of the body. [5]
For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her. [10]
Kittens capering about were his chief delight. [5]
After tea we went to look up Dr. Wilson, chief medical officer of the hospitals in the place, who was staying at the Brady House. [6]
My gunpowdery chief went off with a bang, of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives. [5]
Yet I fear we shall lose the chief, too, if justice overtakes his people. [10]
That is the way I've heard the chief put it. [6]
But the chief waved aggression down, and came forward to the dead man. [11]
But, as it was, their relations always remained somewhat formal, and Chase never felt quite at ease under a chief whom he could not understand, and whose character and powers he never learned to esteem at their true value. [7]
To him it was, in noble symmetry and beauty, the chief mountain of the globe. [4]
The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. [5]
His chief object was to inspire the Arab with confidence, since he was probably the only man outside Selamlik's palace who knew the thing as yet. [11]
How hard it was to find the right answer, when she asked him whether he did not hope everything from the great physician's intervention, or when she inquired what were the works to which Galen owed his chief fame! [10]
And thus it was till his chief confessor, Master Leonard Derrer, the reverend Prior of the Dominicans, came in with the sacristan, to administer to him extreme unction. [10]
But the German was the son of a chief, and had followed arms from his earliest youth. [10]
The Chief Factor was the first to speak. [11]
Behind the chief was the champion, then, a little distance away, on either side, the Indian councillors. [11]
But the rain was not the chief wonder. [5]
The Withers Homestead was naturally the chief centre of interest. [6]
No other chief was like me. [11]
The Chief Factor was intent on what Shon was saying, while Lazenby drummed his fingers on the table, his nose in the air. [11]
And how greatly was I surprised to see Gotz, taller than of old, appear before me in the magnificent array and harness of a chief captain in the army of the all-powerful Republic of Venice! [10]
As Prince Maurice was at that time the great soldier of Protestantism, without clearly scanning the grandeur of the field in which he was a chief actor, or foreseeing the vastness of its future, so the Advocate was its statesman and its prophet. [6]
The chief mate was an excellent officer--a self-possessed, resolute, fine, all-round man. [5]
Her daughter Metz was also in the Ortlieb's service as assistant to the chief cook. [10]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
His chief possession was a priceless one--a conscience. [9]
That afternoon there was a great tumult in Rouen, and excited crowds were flocking through all the chief streets, chattering and seeking for news; for a report had gone abroad that Joan of Arc was sick until death. [5]
The railroad president walked slowly to the arm of the chair in which his chief counsel was seated, and stood looking down at him. [9]
Prince Peter Mikhaylovich Volkonski occupied the position, as it were, of chief of the Emperor's staff. [2]
These brief, precious visits were the chief interests of his long days. [5]
Even the Moslem viceroy, the great general Amru, came over from the other side of the Nile, with his chief military and civil officers, to pay the last honors to the just and revered governor. [10]
That day Prince Vasili no longer boasted of his protege Kutuzov, but remained silent when the commander in chief was mentioned. [2]
He had been useful to the Chief Trader at the Fort in the early days, and having the run of the Fort and the reach of his knife, was little likely to discontinue his adherence. [11]
The chief man used to wait on me to transact business, and as I passed along, old and young made their salaam to me. [5]
Such do not use the penny-post, they send a gilded and painted special messenger, and he strides into the Parliament, and business comes to a sudden and solemn and awful stop; and in the impressive hush that follows, the Chief Clerk reads the document. [5]
The clergyman let us know that we were encouraging idolatry, and he himself took the chief in hand. [9]
Rockwell told him, urging at the same time that he see the Chief Constable as well, and Monseigneur Lourde at Manitou. [11]
He presently came upon Elbridge, chief of the equine department, and driver of the family-coach. [6]
He had picked up the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander in chief and had taken it to his commander. [2]
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
The tendency to undue expansion is unquestionably the chief difficulty. [7]
But it was underneath the tiers of seats (the whole way around the ring) that the chief attractions lay hid. [9]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
I got into trouble in San Francisco with the chief mate of the Flying Polly, because I tried to teach him his business. [11]
Once before I tried it on the chief, and he fell down. [9]
The Medici, having treacherously slain the chief, became mad with desire to slay the lieutenant. [11]
Ridley, the chief trader, and myself have come to the Fort on our way to the Mackenzie River. [11]
One of the town's chief excitements, just now, was over the matter of rum. [5]
The chief mate took his stand in the glare of a torch-basket, a coil of rope in his hand, and his men grouped about him. [5]
Just as exactly, too; for the correctness and propriety with which these terms are introduced have compelled the admiration of a Chief Justice and a Lord Chancellor. [5]
We found gold too; but the treasure-box was the chief thing; and we made it ours after many a hard day. [11]
Even in the tomb of Ti at Sakkara, which dates from the time of the Pyramids, we meet with a chief overseer of the vessels belonging to a wealthy Egyptian. [10]
My chief objection to woman is that she has no respect for the newspaper, or the printed page, as such. [4]
Then, turning half to the young Rameri and half to his sister, she said: "The chief of the House of Seti, Ameni, was in his youth such a man as thou paintest, Bent-Anat. [10]
He was equal to the test, and even Big Moccasin, the chief, grunted sound approval. [11]
The chief drawback to the pleasure is the feeling that I am submitting to that inevitable exposure which is the penalty of authorship in every form. [6]
This was brought to the old chief, and he called to his men to fall back. [11]
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
Shall I go to the Khedive and say that this night Mustapha Bey, eldest and chosen son of Selamlik Pasha, the darling of his fat heart, was seized by the Chief Eunuch, the gentle Mizraim, in the harem of his Highness? [11]
Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked a handsome adjutant. [2]
Are we, then, to suppose that some extremely ancient mammal continued androgynous, after it had acquired the chief distinctions of its class, and therefore after it had diverged from the lower classes of the vertebrate kingdom? [1]
Now we seem to see why that curious incident happened, so long ago; I mean Cox's return, after he had been far away and out of sight several days in the chief mate's boat. [5]
I didn't get to see the President or the Chief Magistrate either, though I had sort of a glimpse of a lady at a window who resembled her portraits. [5]
Ermolov had been to see Bennigsen a few days previously and had entreated him to use his influence with the commander in chief to induce him to take the offensive. [2]
They had looked to see a grey-bearded man like the chief factor who quarrelled and prayed; but they found instead a round- faced, clean-shaven youth, with big, good-natured eyes, yellow hair, and a roundness of body like that of a month-old bear's cub. [11]
He was about to reply to the chief, when the trader entered the room hurriedly with a newspaper in his hand. [11]
Nothing comes amiss to me--cash or credit; but, seriously, I do feel that Stanley is the chief man and an illustrious one, and I do applaud him with all my heart. [5]
The chief turned to me and said, "I am expecting company to dinner, and shall have to get ready. [5]
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
He now came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear guard. [2]

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