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

Is Pan Gideon the Castellan of Cracow, or grand hetman?

From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

He looked at the letter and said, "From the hetman!"

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

Charles, therefore, abandoned his plan of marching upon Moscow, and turned to the south towards the Ukraine, where Mazeppa, hetman or chief of the Cossacks, had agreed to join him against Peter.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous