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Example sentences for "black folk"

  • She had been here four months, and yet every moment up to now she seemed to have been vividly, almost painfully conscious, that she was a white woman talking to black folk.

  • And now the country town of Toomsville lifted itself above the cotton and corn, fringed with dirty straggling cabins of black folk.

  • There were thoughts and vague stirrings of unrest in this mass of black folk.

  • The path of salvation for the emancipated host of black folk lay no longer through the kitchen door, with its wide hall and pillared veranda and flowered yard beyond.

  • Secondly, this building of a new African State does not mean the segregation in it of all the world's black folk.

  • This, too, if done by black folk, would have tended to a new unity of human beings and an obliteration of human hatreds festering along the color line.

  • The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.

  • In 1903 fourteen essays, most of which had already appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic and the World's Work, were brought together in a volume entitled, "The Souls of Black Folk.

  • The Sea Islands of the Carolinas, where they met, were filled with a black folk of primitive type, touched and moulded less by the world about them than any others outside the Black Belt.

  • And so most striking to me, as I approached the village and the little plain church perched aloft, was the air of intense excitement that possessed that mass of black folk.

  • And now what I have briefly sketched in large outline let me on coming pages tell again in many ways, with loving emphasis and deeper detail, that men may listen to the striving in the souls of black folk.

  • In South Carolina was General Saxton, with his deep interest in black folk.

  • No labor is ever so onerous that it can bar music from the soul of black folk.

  • McClurg and Company for the selection from Souls of Black Folk, by W.

  • Gasps, sobs from the line of black folk, interrupted the speaker.

  • Every one on the launch was laughing except the captain, who was swearing quietly; but the line of negroes marched on down to the wharf- boat with the unshakable dignity of black folk in an important position.

  • During Peter Siner's four years in Harvard the segregation of black folk on Southern railroads had become blurred and reminiscent in his mind; now it was fetched back into the sharp distinction of the present instant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black ants; black ball; black bass; black cherry; black color; black enamel; black ground; black hellebore; black hole; black magic; black man; black marble; black oxide; black pepper; black pudding; black silk; black skin; black smoke; black water; black woman; full speed; great heap; hunting excursion; magnitude stars; our house; stopped and