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His important events were the many victorious wars led against rebellious chieftains of his country, and he was canonized in 1087.

Only when delirious she rambled into Scotch and talked of Perth; went over again her father's murder, or fancied her sisters in the hands of some of the ferocious chieftains of the North, and screamed to Sir Patrick or to Geordie Douglas to deliver them.

At one time there were 141 of these lordships, under as many petty chieftains known as Lords-Marchers, who indiscriminately sold charters, and harboured any lawbreaker who would pay for his footing.

But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.

In quest of these Ulysses took a long journey while still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on a mission to recover them.

Well, we've both been admonished from the Slate chieftains for straying from the news of the day.

The only way the ad could have painted a less savory picture of corporate chieftains would have been if the teacher had forced one of the other students to stand up.

Actually, he probably would have fit in pretty well with the corporate chieftains of the late 1950s and early 1960s, when there was no foreign and not much domestic competition and the old-boy network was in full effect.

King James I of Scotland, a strong man who drew a number of chieftains together under him, strengthening the kingdom, naturally aroused rivalry and enmity, which led at last to his assassination in 1437.

With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.

The Guanches are not forgotten either: ten chieftains stand guard in a row, with their backs to the Atlantic.

To a young student making his first researches beneath the surface of English history, few facts are more painful and perplexing than the judicial corruption which prevailed in every period of our country's growth until quiet recent times-darkening the brightest pages of our annals, and disfiguring some of the greatest chieftains of our race.


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