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Example sentences for "black fellow"

  • When this was reported at dawn by Billy Muck, who had taken no part in the intimidation scheme, a wholesome awe crept into the old men's admiration; for a black fellow is fairly logical in these matters.

  • Doggedness being an unusual trait in a black fellow, the homestead became interested.

  • To our surprise there were no natives in the hollow into which we peered, but just beyond a few stunted bushes I could see smoke arising, so it seemed, and the black whispered: "Black fellow fire.

  • I amused them greatly by passing a stick through my nose; I had formerly gone through an excruciating operation for that purpose, and telling them I once had been a black fellow.

  • Tommy said, quite nonchalantly, "Black fellow come up!

  • His chance was when he managed to get a single black fellow into his camp, which he very often did, then by his cunning he always gained his end and the black fellow's death.

  • Up ran a black fellow, seized the bird and wrung its neck.

  • A black fellow, probably separated from his fellows in the excitement of the chase, would be returning home alone passing within earshot of Weedah's camp he would hear the various voices and wonder what tribe could be there.

  • I tink dere are more dan thirty black fellow," Jim said to Reuben, as they started; "quite a crowd of dem.

  • We have been talking of getting a black fellow, for some time; and as here is one ready to hand, we may as well make the best of him.

  • Well, sir, I am shepherding some twenty miles away; and this afternoon, just as I had got back to my hut, in runs a black fellow.

  • Black fellow glad to stop and rest, when he see no one coming after him.

  • Well, we wanted a black fellow or two there," said M'Nab.

  • It don't do to stay in these parts too long at a time, unless a man wants to turn into a black fellow or a lushington.

  • The tent was a remarkable spectacle, and so close and reminiscent of black fellow that my first act was to undo the sides and let the fresh air play through.

  • Of course, a beaten track to your camp would be nothing more or less than an invitation to any swaggie or black fellow to follow it up.

  • But have you ever explored the interior of a black fellow's bag, Master Wally?

  • As he came nearly opposite the two piles of rock which I have mentioned, I saw a black fellow leap on a boulder, and send a spear into him.

  • I suppose you will say, then, that a black fellow is capable of dining?

  • Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.

  • Um black fellow along o' this place, one, two minute!

  • Black fellow go along o' this place, two, four minutes ago.

  • Those of them who speak English express it in these words: 'Tumble down, black fellow; jump up, white fellow.

  • Then the new chum and the black fellow try it on again, and with the same result.

  • It was in their minds a clear case of 'tumble down, black fellow; jump up, white fellow.

  • For example, a black fellow employed on a cattle estate will ride at full gallop and follow the track of a runaway cow or steer without making a single mistake.

  • Poor Noorunglely floundered into the net, up rushed a black fellow and, seizing her, wrung her neck.

  • You may loathe the leg of a bird as food, but at a black fellow's feast, if convention ordains that as your portion, have it you must; just as each rank in society had its invariable joint in early mediaeval Ireland.

  • So much," thought I, "for trying to catch a black fellow single-handed.

  • Mumkull all a black fellow--all run away.

  • Shanter gesticulated and flourished his curved weapon, shook his head, stamped, and cried, "No black fellow.

  • I had noticed a black fellow, in an old red jacket, very active certainly during the brush, and especially the coolness and expertness with which he had fired; but I little dreamed who it was.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black fellow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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