Spinkie veiled his real affection for the negro under a look of supreme indifference, while Winnie went off into a sudden giggle at the idea of such a small creature capsizing the boat.
A shock of disappointment was experienced by Winnie, for she fancied that the negro had referred to her father's old home, but he only meant the lower cave in which the canoe had formerly been kept.
In this truly trustful as well as philosophical state of mind, the negro retired to his familiar couch in the inner cave, and went to sleep.
The negro waved his hand and, sauntering slowly back to his boat, remarked in an undertone, "I lub dat young feller!
The negro would have laughed aloud, but the danger of choking was too great; he therefore laughed internally--an operation which could not be fully understood unless seen.
When he had finished, the negro stood for a considerable time gazing in meditative silence at the sky.
The negrosaid this with such an earnest look that Nigel made up his mind on the spot to accept this curious invitation.
His wandering eyes travelled slowly round the cavern until they rested at last on the door by which they had entered, beside which stood the negrowith a broad grin on his sable visage.
Das de bery best word you've said dis day, massa," remarked the negro with a profound sigh.
The frown fled and the pout became a smile as the negro approached, wiping his hands on a piece of cotton-waste.
The gray-woolled negro was walking beside his minister, uttering petitions and self-accusations.
The negro servants had preceded, and were already on their knees, groaning and praying.
In their eager scanning of the dark water, Bodine and the others did not notice this at first, and when they did the negro was deaf to their expostulations and threats.
Assured of safety, the negro began to reason and apologize.
The negro carefully moored Houghton's boat, feeling that there might be something propitiatory to the dreaded ghost in this act.
He was a tall, straight negro of powerful build, and although his features were African, they were not gross in character.
On his way he remembered that, in horror over the event, he had not stopped to ask fuller particulars, and he turned back to question the negro more fully.
Yah, yah, so 'tis alibe," said thenegro owner of the craft which Bodine had hired for their excursion.
A dozen muzzles of pistols and rifles were pointed at me, and a dozen voices commanded the negro and myself to get into one of the boats.
The strong arm of the negro soon impelled us far out from the shore; and in five minutes after we were crossing the open lake toward the cypress clump in its midst.
Judging by the nomenclature of the negro quarter, you might fancy yourself in ancient Rome or Carthage!
The skin of the panther (cougar) or deer you will not see, for although both inhabit the neighbouring forest, they are too high game for the negro hunter, who is not permitted the use of a gun.
If the negro had been observant he might have noticed the effect of this announcement upon me, for I am sure it must have been sufficiently apparent.
So saying, thenegro left me, and ran towards the house.
So much is a little bit of the domestic economy of the negro quarter.
They could see the pirogue, and both the negro and myself standing by the bow.
On such a night not even the negro 'coon-hunter would have any business in the woods.
All these lay together upon a large wooden dish, rudely carved from the wood of the tulip-tree--of such a fashion as I had often observed about the cabins of the negro quarter.
Joe, with the true negro genius for sleeping, was already snoring at the foot of a tree.
When he rose, it was floating on the water like fat, and he got into the middle of it, coming out as black as a negro minstrel!
He learned from some escaped negro slaves, settled on the isthmus of Darien, that the treasure was brought from Panama to Nombre de Dios upon mules, a party of which he might intercept.
One of their negro allies took a great fancy to Drake's sword, and when it was presented to him, desired the commander to accept four wedges of gold.
At this juncture a negro king, just going to war with a neighbouring tribe, sent to the commander asking his aid, promising him all the prisoners who should be taken.
Flushed with easy success, Hawkins was persuaded by some Portuguese to attack a negro town called Bymeba, where he was informed there was much gold.
Juan de Ortega was immediately dispatched with 100 men, besidesnegro rowers, in four barks.
It happened, however, on all these occasions, that the line of demarkation of sectional interests coincided exactly or very nearly with that dividing the States in which negro servitude existed from those in which it had been abolished.
The question of the maintenance or extinction of the system of negro servitude, already existing in any State, was one exclusively belonging to such State.
The Secretary of War was also authorized to employ for the same duties any number of negro slaves not exceeding twenty thousand.
As for the institution of negro servitude, it was a matter entirely subject to the control of the States.
The climate of Kansas and Nebraska was altogether unsuited to the negro, and the soil was not adapted to those productions for which negro labor could be profitably employed.
That Congress had no right to exclude citizens of the South from taking their negro servants, as any other property, into any part of the common territory, and that they were entitled to claim its protection therein; 3.
It would have manifested itself just as certainly if slavery had existed in all the States, or if there had not been a negro in America.
The policy of engaging to liberate the negro on his discharge after service faithfully rendered seems to me preferable to that of granting immediate manumission, or that of retaining him in servitude.
Not long ago the Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon the subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of that body.
If the report is adopted, three negro ministers will sit as members, but no lay delegates will be eligible.
Friends of the Negro race, patriots and Christians!
The demand for educated Negro ministers, who know what religion is, and what purity is, will be greater and greater.
The demand for missionaries of the negro race who can realize that "Christianity is a missionary religion," will be greater, also.
That is, we must have more and better theological schools for the Negro people.
I am sure that no one can visit Fisk University without having all his doubts dispersed as to the future of the negro race.
But Uncle Joshua, which the negrosaid was his only name, seemed to need no light.
He's perfectly harmless," went on the soldier, looking out to see the aged negro shuffling off.
Harpy as officer, you talk with me as friend, and not treat me as negro servant.
The negro might remain and tell the whole story, and the facts might be proved by the evidence of Signor Easy, and the letters; but what then?
The supposition of Friar Thomaso being here, and their departure with the negro servant to rejoin their ship, will remove much suspicion and destroy all inquiry.
As Dick and the negro had both been making the best of their way towards the ruin, from the moment they discovered the situation of their friend, by this time they were within speaking distance of the spot itself.
You hear what your friend thenegro says, master Fid; he thinks that yonder object, which is lifting so fast to leeward, is not a sail.
The negro occupied a more humble post; one better suited to his subdued habits and inclinations.
During all the time occupied by the foregoing scenes and dialogue, Fid and the negro had been diligently discussing the contents of the bag, under the fence where they were last seen.
Wilder then directed the negro to return to his messmate, and to watch over him so long as he should be unable to look after himself.
The white is so drunk, that he cannot lie down without holding on to the mast; but the negro is either a cheat, or his head is made of flint.
Every portion of the athletic form of the negro was motionless, except his eyes.
They are of the true negro type, and are great fishermen and gatherers of salt on the lake.
He had lost the pure Mhuma features through admixture of Negro blood, but still retained sufficient characteristics of that tribe to prevent all doubt as to his origin.
Beyond, and toward the equator and Nile sources, are the negro and pagan.
In conjunction with predatory negro tribes, such as the Ajawa on the left bank of the Shire, they have made a wilderness of all the country between the Nyassa and the Indian Ocean.
Some of the superstitious rites and ceremonies of the negro race partake more of the nature of open idolatry than any of those which have yet been mentioned.
George Grenfell, who has visited all the tribes along the Congo, says that the negro would stand his ground before the white man.
Unhappily the wrongs of the negro began with his first contact with Europeans.
The coast negro who has learned some of the vices of civilization is undoubtedly a sorry specimen of humanity; but where native tribes can be found uncontaminated by contact with foreigners, they exhibit sterling qualities.
His command at Wadelai then consisted of 1500 soldiers, ten Egyptians and fifteen negro officers.
In West Africa it has deepened the degradation of the negro instead of civilizing him.
The men are well grown and the women not handsome, but the thick lips and flat nose of the negro are wanting.
The last two years of high wages had made every Negro wealthy, comparatively speaking.
The negro glanced at the top of the tree in order to see which way it would fall, cut a few bushes out of his way, and went to work.
At the end of half an hour they came out of the scrub oaks and found themselves in front of a neat little cabin which reminded Tom of the negro quarters he had seen in Mississippi.
Tom washed his hands and face in some muddy water he dipped up from the stream that ran a short distance from the camp, dried them on his handkerchief, and watched the negro as he went about his work.
Woods were to be seen in every direction, and here and there a small clearing with a negro or two scattered about to show that somebody lived there.
By the time he awoke it was pitch dark, save where the faint light from the dying fire which the negro had kindled to cook his supper shone through the open doorway.
Tom was well enough acquainted with the negro character to know that he had excited his suspicions in some way.
The negro pulled himself entirely out of bed, put on his shoes, and went out and looked about him.
In a few minutes they reached the bank of the bayou, and when the negro saw it, he leaned on his axe and shook his head.
Of all life's unfortunates, the Jew in Morocco was once, next to the negro in the West Indies, the most persecuted and degraded of God's creatures.
Cow-birds stalked about the garden among some new vines which the old negro was putting in.
The steady infusion of African blood is becoming her ruin: the sensualnegro type, spreading rapidly, is eating its way into the heart of the people.
The Valideh herself, attired in green silk and a fur pelisse, her train held by two negro female slaves, received us at the head of the stairs and ushered us into a large room with a divan round three sides of it.
Letter to Dundas, with a sketch of a Negro Code, 1792.
Canning described the negro as a being with the form of a man and the intellect of a child.
But of course,' he adds, 'allowance must be made for the enormous and most blessed change of opinion since that day on the subject of negro slavery.
He quotes with much zest a sentence from an ultra-radical journal that the life of the West Indian negro is happiness itself compared with that of the poor inmate of our spinning-mills.
The negro still wore about his neck galling links of the broken chain.
Now, if there was ever a question upon which I would desire to submit all that I have ever said to a candid inquirer, it is that of negro slavery.
She knew that he had lived here with his single negro servant, and that the place had--even to her infantile mind--seemed bare and lonely.
Ruth did not know but what the old negro would be more than a little useless about the Corner House; but it would not cost much to keep him, and let him think he was of some value to them.
This old house just needs a liveriednegro servant shuffling about it--you know it does, Ruth!
The question now arises, Is this a suitable government for the negro race in America?
And again we ask, How does it follow that the domestic slavery of the negro in America is an abridgment of his inalienable rights?
Solid masses, termednegro heads, of different dusky hues, and generally dry and blackened by exposure to the weather, are also occasionally conspicuous.
Adanson so much that he wished it to be repeated, and, to try their strength, directed a full-grown negro to mount the smaller, and two others the larger of the birds.
Young Benson was graduated from Howard University and returning to his father's plantation saw the real need for a good school for the Negro children of the community.
Its aim is not to train skilled workmen or highly educated leaders, but rather to properly fit the Negro boys and girls of the community to live better in that community.
Benson, a son of a former slave who had returned to the Alabama plantation after the war and become one of the South's most successful Negro farmers.
Though it was not yet seven o'clock two negro girls were clearing away the breakfast things under the minute supervision of their mistress, an angular, sharp-faced woman with a reedy voice, and nervously abrupt movements.
A negro boy slouched in with a bundle of newspapers: "This yer is Jedge Locock's, I guess?
On returning home to dinner next day Bancroft noticed a fine buggy drawn up outside the stable, and a negro busily engaged in grooming two strange horses.
Toward evening, however, vehicles of all descriptions drove to the side yard and were left to the care of the negro servants.
The cart seemed laden and the mule walked slowly, but we reached the wall that divided the gardens from the farm, and then Tim made the beast go as fast as possible, all the while looking covertly about for a run-away negro or a Yankee scout.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
The American Negro Academy celebrated the centenary of Charles Sumner at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.
Negro citizenship and suffrage he championed not to save the political power of his party and section, but as a duty which the republic owes to the weakest of her children because of their weakness.
No longer than a year or two ago he nearly lost his own life by saving an old negro woman from a runaway horse.
He gave the letter to a negro boy and watched him fly like an arrow through the clouds of dust which were hanging heavy over the big road.
The first thing that I knew the negro boy who waits on Watson had set out a table and put the lamp on it, and had laid a pack of cards between him and me.
Her bag, which a little negro boy presently came running to bring, was then hung inside the carriage close to her hand.
He spoke to the negro who was driving the swaying oxen, and gave him some money, and stood waiting until he saw the Frenchman lifted carefully and safely into the cart, and well started on the way toward his home.
One of the wide folding steps was then shut up, and on the remaining step the little negro perched himself,--just as Lady Castlewood's page used to perch on hers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
