Paliaca is the Mauritian term for the brightly-colored kerchief there worn by all young negresses in lieu of hats or bonnets, like the old time Louisiana tiyon.
The females bring forth only one at a time, which they carry on their backs in the same manner as the Negressesdo their children.
From the increasing agitation of the negresses it became evident that the ceremony of tea-making had been postponed till his arrival.
Women of Libyan race, mounted on asses, inveighed against the Negresses who had forsaken the lupanaria of Malqua for the soldiers; many of them were suckling children suspended on their bosoms by leathern thongs.
The heads of the Negresses formed big black spots on the line of the bands of the golden plates clasping the foreheads of the Roman women.
On the ground floor her negresses lived, and cooked for their mistress and themselves.
M'Barka had given her a necklace of black beads which the negresses had made of benzoin and rose leaves and spices, held in shape with pungent rezin.
She passed near them sometimes going to the Moorish baths, but the long blue drapery covered her face then, and she was guarded by veiled negresses and eunuchs.
It was an insult to her that they should beautify this house, and she ignored their existence, though she had heard her negresses whispering about them.
In the afternoon I saw many negroes and negresses parading about in their Sunday clothes--silks and crinolines--much smarter than their mistresses.
On the one hand, the Negroes andNegresses of South Carolina are perfectly prolific between themselves.
There is, besides, a fact known to persons inhabiting the colonies, that the white women and the negresses are very prolific, which is not the case with the mulatresses.
We were taken with the negroes serving in the French army, with negresses in the villages, in the plantation, and in the King's ground under a tree with a small negress who ran after us.
As the vein was principally manganese, we were black all over when we came out of the mine, but a body of negresses came at once to wash us.
Alboufaki and my negresses are waiting at the door.
This proceeded from Carathis, who was singing her direful orisons to the Giaour, whilst the negresses and mutes supplied thorough-bass, without articulating a word.
Bruce relates that from time immemorial inoculation was practised in Nubia by old Negresses or Arabs.
Prichard has also stated that similar changes become visible in the third and fourth generations in the West India islands; and I have seen several negresses in those colonies perfectly beautiful.
This proceeded from Carathis, who was singing her direful orisons to the Giaour, whilst the negresses and mutes supplied thorough bass without articulating a word.
Carathis, unaccustomed to the loss of her prey, vented a thousand execrations on her negresses for not seizing the child, instead of amusing themselves with pinching to death the dwarfs, from which they could gain no advantage.
Six or seven of the negresses were kneeling near the door, and I could hear the low, solemn, earnest voice of Lucy, reading some of the collects and other prayers suited to the sick-chamber and to the wants of a parting soul.
There, negroes and negresses break it up with long poles armed with hard-wood head, trampling it under their delicate pettitoes to such an extent as to give rise to the question whether sugar-tongs are not a useless invention.
But I have seen the negresses wash their faces, hands and legs, on the coldest morning.
Afternoon there was a tremendous hubbub in the public square or market-place, the Negresses flying in all directions from the scene of tumult.
Some negresses use false tails as well as false locks, as our belles do, the long flowing curls being preferred by the sooty Nigritian beauties, in spite of such an ornament being unnatural to them.
The negressessat apart, as usual, occasionally raising their shrill loo-looings, which they have well learnt from their Moorish mistresses.
My old negress landlady is a hair-dresser of the first style, and the fashionable negresses come to have their woolly crispy locks dressed by her secundum artem nearly every day.
These habits of cleanliness thenegresses bring from the banks of the Niger.
Some of these Ghat negresses are actually witty, and crack jokes with the grave Touaricks.
There were several Negresses near, who answered in shrill voices to the deep choruses of the Negroes, but did not themselves dance.
When not fatigued, and in good health, the Negresses will sing from morning to night.
The negresses are busy either pounding ghusub, or washing themselves, or making the toilet and arranging their sable persons in showy trinkets.
This evening, the Negresses played their usual sweet innocent little game.
Already from without came the sounds of the alarm that the three Negresses had started.
This time he dragged her back into the rear apartment of his tent where three Negresses looked up in stolid indifference to the tragedy being enacted before them.
The three Negressesleaped from their sleeping mats, screaming.
Occasionally and without apparent provocation one or the other of the Negresses struck or pushed her roughly.
Here Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick saw a number of Negresses engaged in laying fagots around a stake and in preparing fires beneath a number of large cooking vessels.
The negresseshad common sensation in the legs, but Millie could not localise what part of Christine's legs was touched, and vice versa.
There are cases where negresses have given birth to twins, one of which was a negro and the other a mulatto.
The negresses tore their breasts and arms with their fish-bone combs.
Disturbed in their incantations, the negresses sprang to their feet.
A GROUP of negresses came near the tree to which I was fastened, and lit a fire.
All the negresses leapt to their feet and cast their implements of torture on one side, put on their aprons, and, at a gesture of the Obi, fled like a cloud of grasshoppers.
Stalwart negresses with bright kerchiefs made way for us on the banquette.
The natives prefer the froth to the actual beverage; and many of the negresses are such adepts in the art of pouring out, that they will make the cup so overflow with foam, that it contains scarcely a spoonful of liquid.
Round these arches negresses and mestizas dance, and endeavor to stop the negroes whilst riding at full gallop under the arches.
It is not uncommon for these middle-aged negresses to stand six feet high, without shoes or stockings, and to turn the scales at double the average weight of men of the same color and class.
Negresses and donkeys perform nine tenths of the transportation of merchandise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
