While we were talking a freedman came from Menas and said that the sacrificial cakes were cooked and every thing ready for the sacrifice--that whoever wishes to take part had only to come.
As Stolo was speaking, the freedman of the Sacristan ran up to us with his eyes full of tears and, begging our pardon for having kept us waiting so long, invited us to come to the funeral on the following day.
Sulla, Cornelius, a freedmanof the dictator, II, 29.
Of this Philetus nothing certain is known, but he is supposed to have been a freedman of the emperor Claudius.
It has been suggested that he was the freedman of the Emperor Claudius or Augustus, an inscription having been found in the tomb of the freedmen of the latter to C.
It is not probable that the freedman voluntarily came forward, and declared the truth to Augustus.
He alludes to Bathyllus, the favourite and freedman of Mecænas, and who brought to perfection pantomimic dancing at Rome.
She had again spoken of the serpents which lived in such numbers in the neighbouring islands, and her question whether it would be difficult to capture one alive was answered by the freedman in the negative.
He had heard of the treachery of the fleet while entering a hired boat with the freedman in the harbour of Eunostus, Pyrrhus's having been detained with the other craft before the Temple of Poseidon.
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew.
Especially ought there to have been established something like the Roman patronate, under which the freedman would have been sure of wise advice, beneficial overlooking, and efficient protection from his former master.
Enfranchisement was common; and, in a few generations afterwards, the descendants of the freedman were indistinguishable amid the body of free citizens.
The freedman is a different character from his former slave self, and is to be governed by different methods; and the true art of managing him is cabalism to many who were prosperous planters before the war.
Sigtrygg was his father's name, and he had been the freedman of Asgerd, and he was drowned in Markfleet.
Bjalfi had been the freedman of Asgerda, the mother of Njal and Holt-Thorir; Bjorn had to wife Valgerda, she was the daughter of Thorbrand, the son of Asbrand.
This excellent man, who is always spoken of by his son with a deep respect and affection, was a freedman of Venusia in Southern Italy, who had acquired a small estate by his economies as a collector of taxes in the neighbourhood.
The servile, or grateful, freedman understood the hint, and yielded without hesitation to the love of his benefactor.
At the house of Zeid, his freedman and adopted son, he beheld, in a loose undress, the beauty of Zeineb, and burst forth into an ejaculation of devotion and desire.
Phlegon of Tralles was a freedman of the Emperor Hadrian.
Aeacus delivers him to his freedman Menander, to be his law-clerk.
His freedman Narcissus had gone down before him by a short cut, ready to welcome his master.
They found him bathed in a sweat of horror, and struggling for breath, his eyes fixed on vacancy; and thefreedman flew off to fetch the physician.
The freedman had never yet lived in such a happy and elevated frame of mind; as he looked back on his past existence he often remembered with thankful joy the promise that the last should be first, and that the lowly should be exalted.
The freedman had heard him with deep emotion, and within a few hours after Andreas had reported to Zeno the self-sacrificing youth's purpose, Zeno had gone to Alexander and greeted him as his son.
There his freedman Epagathos was waiting for him, with Adventus and his learned Indian body slave Arjuna.
If a conjecture may be hazarded, I venture to think that our Clement was a freedman or the son of a freedman in the household of Flavius Clemens, the cousin of Domitian, whom the Emperor put to death for his profession of Christianity.
His people belonged to the Colberts that had Colbert's Crossin' on the Red River way before the War, and he was a freedman and got allotment.
Him and me both got our land on our Cherokee freedman blood and I have lived to bury my husband and see two great grandchildren so far.
In a discussion of the Negro problem it is eminently appropriate the Freedman and his neighbor be accorded the privilege of expressing their respective views.
Let us recognize the fact that God has a great use for the Freedman in this our native land, because he has providentially brought him here and increased his number so greatly.
Every Freedmanin the region of country benefited and blessed by this institution, may well be profoundly thankful for this manifestation of personal interest in your intellectual and material welfare.
Do not hesitate to advocate the daily reading of the Bible, and the employment of christian teachers, in all the public schools, provided for the Freedman and his children.
The educational needs of the Freedman have called forth several large benefactions from individual contributors.
The freedman was told to go to Austin, and report the facts to the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau: but he appears not to have arrived.
Like the freedman despatched by the chief justice of Refugio County, with a letter setting forth the disorders in that county, he may have been shot on the road.
Had it not been for the centurion, who was known to the other soldiers, the watch would never have allowed the freedman to get so far as the fountain; Andreas therefore begged Melissa to thank their preserver.
Andreas had then declared his intention of bringing the son of his former master to a place of safety, and the centurion had been prevailed upon by the young tribunes to open a way for the freedman through the sentinels.
Arrived there, she ordered the astonished freedman Johannes, in his office as notary, to add a codicil to her will.
Then she resumed her walk through the rooms of the heathen mystics, repeating to herself all the comfortable words she had ever heard from Euryale and the freedman Andreas.
Indeed, she wished rather that the freedman would keep silent when he began explaining his opportune arrival at the fountain, which must seem such a miracle to her.
It will flood the cabins of the freedman with light, and clothe the weak in more than coat of mail, and wrap the poor and lowly in "measureless content.
Honor bright, can you trust it with the masked murderers who rode in the darkness of night to the hut of the freedmanand shot him down, notwithstanding the supplication of his wife and the tears of his babe?
The freedman had assured him that the stone was part of the property left by the famous Thomas, his former master.
He was a freedman of Thomas' and came here with his daughter.
With their old conviction, not yet wholly changed, of the divine right of slavery, everyfreedman in the streets represents so much property of which they have been despoiled by governmental authority.
But how could she permit herself to be jealous of Arria Marcella, daughter of Arrius Diomedes, thefreedman of Tiberius?
But when the freedman refuses to acknowledge the master's name as his, who can impose it on him?
She thought that the former master must be healed by the slow medicament of time before he could be able to recognize in all men the sanctity of manhood; as well as that the freedman must be taught to know and to defend his rights.
I do not see why the American freedman has not a right to choose his own surname.
The Roman custom was for the freedman to take the name of some friend, benefactor, or patron.
The soil which slavery claimed, baptized with blood becomes the Promised Land of the freedman and poor white.
It was found to be a very easy matter to allow the freedman to indulge, without let or hindrance, his wonderful eagerness for the exercise of ballotorial power, without injury to the public good.
Against their use the mind of the freedman rebelled as instinctively as the dominant race insisted on its continuance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freedman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
