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chief and respectable
Chief among them were Queen Tey and her son Pentaweret, Ramesses ' chief of the chamber, Pebekkamen, seven royal butlers ( a respectable state office ), two Treasury overseers, two Army standard bearers, two royal scribes and a herald.
Erasmus enrolled with John Lizars, a " charming " and respectable surgeon on the other side of Surgeon's Square from his chief rival as a private tutor, the flamboyant Robert Knox who two years later became embroiled with the body-snatchers Burke and Hare.

chief and band
On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.
Later still, T. H. White featured Robin and his band in The Sword in the Stone – anachronistically, since the novel's chief theme is the childhood of King Arthur.
Ghino di Tacco is the Italian equivalent of the English Robin Hood, with the difference that di Tacco was a real person whose deeds as a chief of a band of robbers passed into legend.
The band's chief live technician, Peter Clements, or " Plank ", has worked with the band since before The Bends, overseeing the setup of their instruments for both studio recordings and live performances.
During the Ottoman Empire, size of a military band reflected the rank of its commander in chief: the largest reserved for the Sultan ( viz.
1816-May 24, 1857 ), chief of the southern Warm Springs local group of the Chihenne band
8, 1874 ), chief of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen band
* Juh, ( Ho, Whoa, and sometimes Who ), ( c. 1825 – Nov. 1883 ), chief of the Janeros local group of the Ndéndai ( or Nednhi ) band
16, 1919 ), second son of Cochise, was the final hereditary chief of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen band
– 1896 ), chief of the Warm Springs local group of the Chihenne band
1840-Sep. 26, 1876 ), son of Cochise and successor as chief of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen band
14, 1880 ), chief of the Warm Springs local group of the Chihenne band
* Ka-ya-ten-nae ( Ka-e-te-nay, Kaytennae, Kadhateni or Kieta-" Fights Without Arrows ", " Cartridges All Gone "), chief of the Warm Springs local group of the Chihenne band, second husband of the heroic Gouyen and stepfather of Kaywaykla
Drawn up in a band around their chief, the people of the Austrasians carried all before them.
The British tribes, although previously at war with one another, band together to face the Roman threat with Cassivellaunus as their commander in chief.
* Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit ( Ahchacoosacootacoopits-‘ Starblanket ’, Chief of a band of Calling River Cree ( Kātēpwēwi-sīpīwiyiniwak ), born about 1845 in the lower Qu ’ Appelle Valley, son of Wāpiy-mōsētōsis (" White Calf "), his tribal group was closely associated with the Ka Kichi Wi Winiwak under the leadership of chief Kakeesheway (‘ Loud Voice ’), and a close ally of Payipwāt (" Piapot "), the chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or " Young Dogs ", 1879 after the disappearance of the bison Ahchuchhwahauhhatohapit settled on a reserve in the File Hills of the lower Qu ' Appelle Valley, died 1917 in the Star Blanket reserve, Saskatchewan )
* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )
" The chief of the European theater asked Officer Harold Lindsay Lin to put together another band to take its place, and that's when the 314 was formed.
Impressed with his abilities as a guitarist, former Superjesus manager Dan Hennessy took a keen interest in the band and when he took over as A & R chief at Warner Bros. Records Australia, Weta were added to their roster and the band moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1998.
Featuring the furious riffs and trade-off solos of new guitarists Cannavino and Gant, and the refined songwriting of Verni and Ellsworth, Horrorscope quickly silenced fan fears that the loss of a chief songwriter would ruin the band.
EchoStar was formed in 1980 by its chairman and chief executive officer, Charles Ergen along with colleagues Candy Ergen and Jim Defranco, as a distributor of C band satellite television systems.
The county is named for the Stanislaus River, first discovered by a European, Gabriel Moraga, in 1806, and later renamed Rio Estanislao in honor of Estanislao, a mission-educated renegade Native American chief who led a band of Indians in a series of battles against Mexican troops until finally being defeated by General Mariano Vallejo in 1826.
After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

chief and was
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.
She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.
On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.
In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.
His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.
Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties.
The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.
In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.
But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.
This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.
Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.
For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.
Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
Yellow Wolf was there, nephew of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in whom also the disordered chemistries of youth worked.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.
Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.
The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.
The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

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