In a moment I was out in the mews; in another, I was in the next street; in a third, I hailed a passing omnibus, and was a free woman again.
Comparison of dates showed that the Scotch marriage--if it was a marriage at all, and not a sham--had taken place just about the time when Miss Gwilt was a free woman again.
She was a free woman; and when my children were purchased, Mr. Sands preferred to have the bill of sale drawn up in her name.
I should, at least, have the satisfaction of knowing that you left me a free woman.
If the husband of a pregnant free woman dies, or a free woman is divorced, she shall mourn four months and ten days.
A free woman or a hermaphrodite shall be regarded as half a man in all considerations referring to person or injury.
Article XLIII If a married man commits adultery with a free woman, both shall be stoned to death.
If a free woman married a half-slave, the children were slaves only to the one-fourth part, and they considered that in the question of their service.
If there were other children who were not legitimate, who had been had by a free woman, they had one-third of the property, and the legitimate children the other two thirds.
She has been, madam, but though I had nothing else in the world, when I became of age, she was made a free woman.
Was it strange that I, a free woman, longed to leave the places which reminded me of the past, to see and learn something of the world?
I wish her no harm, poor wretch, but if she were going back home a free woman my heart would be lighter.
It said also that I left them of my own free will, because I was a free woman in England; and that I was idle and would not do my work--which was not true.
She said, she supposed I thought myself a free woman, but I was not; and if I did not do it directly I should be instantly turned out of doors.
He could acquire property, marry a free woman, engage in trade, and act as principal in contract with a free man.
A concubine was a free woman, but had not the status of a wife; nevertheless she might bring with her a marriage-portion, over which she had the same rights as a legal wife.
If either a slave of a patrician, or of a plebeian, has married the daughter of a free man, and she has borne children, the owner of the slave shall have no claim for service on the children of a free woman.
It also determines the position of a slave-woman who bears children to her master,(421) or of a slave who marries a free woman.
Couvent, a free woman of color, died, leaving a fund in trust for the establishment and maintenance of this institution.
JACOB FUNK: they probably may be in the neighborhood of Georgetown or Alexandria or gone towards camp, and that she will attempt to pass for a free woman, and wife to the Portugese fellow.
Her mother was a free woman of color, born in Toronto when it was called York.
Say you won't do it; you're a free woman, you can act as you please.
After a long and tedious trial of many days, it was decided that Salome Miller was by birth a free woman, and she was set at liberty.
In fact she forfeited none of the rights of a free womanby marrying a slave man.
Doubtless, in many cases a master preferred his slave marrying a free woman to having to purchase a slave girl for him.
I am a free woman and I shall not be a slave--a SLAVE to any man.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free woman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
