| In a moment we found ourselves surrounded by them, while a path in front was stopped by the ataman. |
| If I had not entered into conversation with the ataman, we should have been riddled with balls at the first movement. |
| If he is successful he takes the ataman place, and holds it until some one else dislodges him. |
| Each Cossack force had its own ataman and there was an ataman of all Cossack forces who, from 1827, was the heir to the imperial throne. |
| The decision maker turned out to be a gray-haired Cossack ataman, or commander, in a traditional sheepskin hat. |
| But Sinbad, being a man of humane temper, thinks that the sport has gone far enough, and appeals to the ataman to stop it. |
