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A chieftain to the Highlands boundCries, "Boatman, do not tarry!And I'll give thee a silver poundTo row us o'er the ferry!"
Thomas Campbell
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Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain o'the Puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang's myarm.

Robert Burns

— 1786  'To a Haggis', stanza1.

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Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt!

wallace stevens

— 1923  Harmonium,'Bantams in Pine-Woods'.

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Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant Inde toro paterAeneas sic orsus ab alto. They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy's Chieftain, began to speak.


— Aeneid, bk.2, l.1-2 (translated byW F Jackson Knight).

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At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

william least heat-moon

— Part Five, Chapter 3

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At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.


— Part Five, Chapter 3 (Blue Highways (1982))

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A Chieftain to the Highlands bound Cries 'Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row us o'er the ferry.'

thomas campbell

— 1809  'Lord Ullin's Daughter', stanza1.

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The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious Chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

william h. prescott

— "Sir Walter Scott" (1838), p. 239

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Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal Chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

Robertson Davies

— Scottish Folklore and Opera (1992)

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We need no Chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.

jack vance

— "Fader's Waft", chapter 13

Tags: We, need, folk, eat, more, share

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