hetman

Example Sentences

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At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, though I might have gone to the Crimea, I am serving this fatherland with my blood and health, and I am under no one but the hetman.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

And I should have surely confused you as I did Revera Pototski, the hetman, in presence of the king, when he jested at my age.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Do you not know that he is an eye in the head of the hetman?

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk