While Drane and Gilcrest were in the latter's library, one of the little negroes about the place brought Drane a note which the little darkey said had been left at the kitchen door by a peddler.
It was a familiar gesture, gentle and yet rough, a token of affection, and yet a command to attention; for the venerable darkey could be imperious enough when surrendering to the whims of his little partner.
His first ball had hit the huge beast in the breast, but the latter had plunged forward after the escaping darkey as the ball struck him.
To shriek out in alarm would neither save thedarkey nor frighten off the bear.
The deafening roll of the thunder awoke Washington White from a short nap, and the darkey was not at all sure that he was safe from the lightning bolts.
The next moment the darkey was startled by a yell from Jack.
But the darkey wanted to see how the boys proposed to go about the work of capturing the walrus.
But on the way one Indian had fired at the darkey and wounded the Aleut in the leg.
With a perfectly serious face the darkey declaimed: "Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci George Washington Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant Garibaldi Thomas Edison Guglielmo Marconi Butts.
The darkey went along blithely despite his expressed distaste for their surroundings, and as they came to the lower end of the grove of big trees, he began to run.
Meanwhile the darkey had come into the great shed and was slowly walking around the flying machine.
Jack dragged Wash to one side; but the darkey yelled: "Gollyation!
Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson were not frightened in the same way as the darkey and the Aleuts; nevertheless they were much shaken.
A stalwart darkey once gave offense at a negro ball in New Orleans by putting on a good many airs.
One day she passed along; an old darkeyon shore, absorbed in his own matters, did not notice what steamer it was.
Sidenote: Moonlight Ride by the Sea] After a most enjoyable evening with a happy company, myself and one of my darkey acquaintances of the morning mounted two saddle mules for a moonlight midnight ride down the beach to the pass.
During the days of the Civil War my father owned three slave, one was an old darkey named Alex, and the nigger mammies, were Diana and Mary Ann.
This is one of the best ways to appeal to a darkey because if there is any thing they like it is a big funeral.
The soldiers ran together, looking in every direction, in the wildest alarm, and every darkey ceased chopping instanter.
The old darkey had reported them at nine hundred, but added that it was only hearsay with him.
Through this hole I thrust a finger, and was enabled to gradually remove the curtain so as to see the fire-place; and there was an old darkey down on his knees, with his back to the fire and his breast resting on a low stool.
Meeting an old darkey coming along the road, I stopped him, and in a low tone asked several questions as to what troops occupied the place, and if the bridge at town was in good repair.
Mr. Page delineates finely the old Virginia darkey and his dialect, as Mr. Harris does the darkey of the Carolinas and Georgia.
Wal, The Panther made a rush to jump overboard, but he happened to step onto that darkey again, so he was nabbed.
He got mixed up with that darkey you seed--his name is Jethro Juggens--and you may shoot me if the darkey didn't throw him down and hold him fast till we made him prisoner.
It was time to examine this luncheon; and, seating himself under the shadow of a spreading tree, he directed the darkey to draw it forth.
Herbert, looking up and perceiving, with some surprise, that thedarkey was regarding him with a fixed stare.
The darkeyjoined in his mirth with a grin that extended his mouth from ear to ear--though he was utterly unconscious of what the young buckra was laughing at.
Herbert, in surprise, at the same time scanning the darkey from head to foot; "how do you know that, my boy?
The darkey stood horrified--his black epidermis turning to an ashy-grey colour, quick as the change of a chameleon.
The darkeyhad been left some distance off; and since he had not answered to his calls, he must be asleep or straying.
This was all that was intended; and a darkey to guide him all that was needed.
The darkey pointed to a bye-road, that, forking off from the main avenue, ran in the direction of the ridge, where it entered into a tract of thick woods.
But to his repeated calls no Quashie came; and Mr Smythje was forced to the conclusion that the darkey had either gone to sleep, or had strayed away from the spot where he had left him.
The boy instantly darted into the thicket after dry wood, and before many minutes the olddarkey was on shore with his catch.
Tell you what,” the old darkey continued with his eyes fixed ravenously on the frying fish.
It doesn’t take much to frighten you, Uncle Zeke,” Clay laughed as the old darkey came up on a run.
He’ll drag you down the river, and there’s a party of thieves in a houseboat down there who are waiting for some nice fatdarkey to cook for their dinner.
Well,” Case said handing the darkey a silver dollar.
But that poor little fool darkeyof yours has about done it for himself, I guess.
Uncle Remus stared at the strange darkey curiously for a moment, and then he seized him by the arm.
Espying Uncle Remus languidly sunning himself on a corner, the Savannah darkey approached.
I raised them front side toward the darkey in presence of attendant.
Aunt Judy by this time began to bewail that she had "lef' old Miss cow in the cowshed," and mistaking the moaning of the shells for the dying groans of the cow, she and Douglas lamented it in true darkey fashion.
A negro cabin ornamented with pine saplings and an old darkey sitting at ease with his pipe, in the doorway, and just outside a contented "old Mammy," in characteristic pose.
To keep warm that night I helped the darkey fire the engine at the ice factory, which is located near the depot, until 10 p.
We had gone perhaps a mile on the return journey when I observed another darkey leading up a close rear.
As the target is always carried in triumph through the streets, and afterward exhibited in the drill-room, the darkey invariably carries an auger with him, with which explosive weapon all the best shots are made.
The play of Othello is the single exception--they make the Venetian warrior a white man in a red roundabout, who makes fierce love to Desdemona, who is the molasses-colored child of a respectable darkey whitewasher.
Old Sam, shuffling in with the breakfast tray, found the Major in his accustomed easy-chair by the fireplace--and yet even the olddarkey could see instantly that the Major was not there.
I had about decided to walk to Memphis, but just then an old darkey came along with a span of mules hitched to the running gears of a wagon, who was going five miles on my way.
The old darkey had just been praising his mules for the virtue of being reliable when an automobile hove into sight, coming directly toward us.
A few days later and the old white mule and darkey driver came out upon the springing grass with the purring mower, and it made Bradley's blood leap with recollections of the haying field.
He noticed that the darkey did not enter with him, but ran up the stairs.
The second darkeyled his way down the polished floor (which Bradley walked with difficulty), his coat tails wagging in a curious fashion, by reason of the action of his bow legs.
Yes, I am a minister," Cameron answered, wondering much at the appearance of the darkey and his strange turn-out.
A few moments later, the darkey came around to the front of the house.
And the negro cook grinned himself, to the full extent of his wide mouth and glistening ivory teeth, while administering this rebuke to his darkey brother.
Mr. Morris, who was in the bar) The little darkey lawyer!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darkey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
