The cabin, boasting only two rooms and a low attic where the male "boders" slept, was full to overflowing when all of us piled in, but we were anxious to see how the little darkeys took Santa Claus and if they really believed in him.
At least, we thought they had at the time but we heard later that some of the Gresham darkeys were seen dressed in them.
I was too scared to run and the darkeys began to pour out, threatening darkly as to the future welfare of my soul.
I had done my part, and now Zebedee was to be diked out as Santa Claus and give the little darkeys a treat that they would remember all their lives.
Mr. Kent took many photographs of Santa Claus with the littledarkeys crowding around him.
As a rule, darkeys need a boss to be kept up to a certain standard.
They are having lively times down there between the darkeys and their former owners, and they need us to adjust matters.
The garrulous darkeysliked to see Ralph coming, and many a question they put to him which he could scarcely answer, so little did he know of the true state of affairs.
If you see one of our darkeys flinch when the firing begins, I wish you would let me know, and we will cut down his hominy ration," rattled Deck, as enthusiastic as though he had slept all night instead of half an hour.
And the moment we fire, the ruffians will all run away, which the darkeys won't do.
I’ve seen those same darkeys do the same thing, but I guess this time they were so rattled they didn’t think of it.
The darkeys secured the harness that they had been forced to drop, and crept cautiously up on the mule, who was now thinking only of how delicious oats could taste to a hungry mule.
There are plenty of them in the low-lying rice fields, and the darkeysstand in deadly fear of them.
The darkeys are going round barefooted, women are fanning themselves, and men are going round on the shady side of the street.
I’ve heard the darkeys say there was an island in the swamp somewhere, and maybe we’re getting near it.
The darkeys think they’re fine, and spend a lot of time hunting them out.
The darkeys however had anticipated some such action, and let go just in the nick of time to save themselves.
It’s a circus to see the darkeys when they have to harness him,” said Lee.
The day I came into camp, there was a good many other darkeysfrom all about our place.
The darkeys kept aloof from his fastness, and even Eliza, whose Monday-morning soul longed for the running water of the stream, for she had struggled with muddy water so long, trembled at the tales of this monster.
A gathering of the darkeys seemed equally jubilant, whether it was a funeral, a camp-meeting or a dance; but it seemed they made a difference in dress for these occasions, if not in manners.
Our colored coachman, Henry, was a permanent fixture at the foot of her throne, while the darkeys on the neighboring plantations came nightly to worship.
It was reported to me, at the time, that several darkeys were shot then.
From the fact that I employed government darkeys from Colonel Phillips, at Memphis.
Some darkeys came there, and we told them to go away; we saw the rebels were shooting them, and we allowed if they were not with us we might get clear.
There were live darkeys in Cairo hospitals who were buried alive.
This same Jones; and there were some darkeys came in to the gunboat and said that.
De Yankees was mighty anxious to set us poor darkeys free, but it ain't done me no good.
He spoke in a quick, jerky fashion, addressing Lemuel Dalton in the name of the assemblage as follows: "We have heard of the difficulty between you and one of the darkeys on your place.
Put a few ninepences into your breeches pocket to throw at darkeys when they hold your horse, and the thing's done.
There were about twenty rebs guarding, and fifty darkeys at work.
After the war, everybody's darkeys did as they pleased; hers did a little more so.
The all-day picnic ended only with closing of polls, and not always then, darkeys hanging around and carrying scrapping and jollification into the night.
Did he flirt around quickly, calling on somebody to step on his gown or knock off his chip, darkeys fell over each other getting out of his way.
So it was all around me--white men at home, darkeys off running the government.
A planter went to the agent in his vicinity and said: "Captain, I don't know what to do with the darkeys on my place.
No sooner did darkeysobserve that whites sent out and got newspapers than they did likewise; and sat there reading them upside down.
Now, instead of a merry crowd of darkeys rushing out with shouts of "Howdy do, Marster!
All of us tried to teach darkeys to read, and nothing was ever done to anybody about it.
She and her two little darkeys afforded her friends no end of diversion.
We will show the darkeysof Groveland how to entertain a Congressman.
I really think," the colonel observed to one of his friends, "that Dick ought to have the nigger interviewed by the Boston papers, so that they may see how contented and happy our darkeys really are.
As the stranger drew rein at the stile, he was greeted by a chorus of dogs, followed instantly by the cries of a number of half-clad, grinning little darkeys who came running forward from the negro quarters in the rear.
Five minutes later the old Hindoo Merchant was thrusting through it with her nose heading for the river Hooghley, and the darkeys tying a single reef in the foretopsail.
The darkeys lay aft to the tackles, and Jackson climbed over the rail with a countenance sour and mutinous with disappointment.
Jackson, Fallows, the boatswain, and a few of the darkeys stood near, eagerly catching what we said.
I had called to two of the English sailors, named Mike Jackson and Thomas Fallows, to get into the boat, when the cask had been placed in her; and when I had entered her the darkeys lowered us; we unhooked and shoved off.
And then, to the surprise and dismay of all the rest, the two darkeys vaulted over the balustrade and dropped into the room beneath.
Since their desperate dive into the sea, and the adventure with the shark, the twodarkeys and the orphan had become fast friends.
To tell the truth, he was a bit annoyed, for besides the two youths there was Mole, and the attendant darkeys with them, Tinker and Bogey.
Pet, as she came in dispersing the darkeys by a grand flourish of her whip.
You see," he added, coming forward, "I wanted to make all the darkeys on the place think that I am going down to Newbern to join the rebel gunboat that so many people seem to think is being built there.
I know you have made the darkeys afraid of you by telling them your ridiculous stories, and I am ashamed to say that I have backed up all you have said to them," continued Marcy.
Perhaps our darkeys are all right, and perhaps they are not.
That was what I meant when I told those two darkeys awhile ago that I could put my hand on the talebearer in less than ten minutes.
The darkeys replied very evasively; would not say a word that would injure the cause of the Union forces; denied all knowledge of them or their whereabouts.
The darkeys of Secession masters fairly flocked into camp on many occasions.
So dat de glorification ob Uncle Abraham Linkum shall resound ober de earth, and we darkeys no longer hab to hoe de corn, but lib foreber on de fat ob de lan'.
I am not a superstitious man, but they allowed that these darkeys are not of a common tribe, but what the papers call "highly developed mediums.
I found that I couldn't stay under water, like the darkeys could.
A variety-show, consisting of about a dozen young darkeys with their baskets and strings of sponges, accompanied her up the steps; but she was ordered to rout them, and she did it in short order.
When we had gone some distance, we looked back, and there was still a pile of darkeys rolling and tumbling in the dust.
We rushed over, we searched and looked, here and there and everywhere, and all the darkeys searched and looked, but we found no Priscilla.
These dives are called "small," because thedarkeys want to put the thing mildly.
Priscilla threw out a handful of pennies, and thedarkeys just piled themselves up in the road on top of the money.
As soon as they got a cue, the darkeys knew what to do.
Corny glanced at me with an air that suggested that I ought to make a rise in the price, but I had dealt with these darkeys before.
As we went up through the town we found that the darkeys were nearly as thick as the conch-shells, but they were much more lively.
Then every fellow jerked himself loose from the rest, and a fresh rush was made, and a fresh pile of darkeys arose in a minute.
For 2 Darkeys Goose Hollow Stump Speech De Milk in de Cocoa Nut A Dutchman's Answer Lecture on Cats The Patent Screw The Auctioneer Hints on Courtship Dutch Recruiting Officer Spirit Rappings.
The darkeys proved to be pretty shrewd traders, and promptly declined all offers of Confederate currency in payment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darkeys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
