Just then a little niggergirl came running in, and said: "Missis, de Yankees dun got Lucy!
Nor I either," said the Sergeant, "I didn't think when I enlisted that this was going to be made a nigger war!
The nigger had been sent to the rebel fortifications to work, and had run away.
Bring your nigger around here," said I, as I led my prisoner around to the rear of the house, and out to the stable.
I obeyed, and rode out to see what the nigger wanted.
As I was riding along, in advance of the detachment, I saw a nigger coming up the road toward me, with his hat in his hand, and running as fast as he could, and appearing to be wonderfully excited about something.
We only got sight of three persons; those were the two Confederate soldiers and nigger that I have mentioned, who remained behind for us to capture.
As we passed out into the yard, we met the big Sergeant, accompanied by a nigger who had an iron collar on his neck, with a chain fastened to it, with the other end fastened around his waist.
When I got round the corner, I saw a nigger coming from a house that I took to be the Captain's; so I waited till he came out to me.
Preacher Bonnell, he used to have a nigger man a-workin’ fer him—onliest nigger ever was in these hills, I reckon.
The tale of Huck and Nigger Jim drifting down the mighty river on a raft, cross-secting the various primitive aspects of human existence, constitutes one of the most impressive examples of picaresque fiction in any language.
We want him always the Huck who was willing to go to hell if necessary, rather than sacrifice Nigger Jim; the Huck who watched the river through long nights, and, without caring to explain why, felt his soul go out to the sunrise.
Certainly Huck's loyalty to that lovely soul Nigger Jim was beautiful, though after all it may not have been so hard for Huck, who could be loyal to anything.
He's been drinking and he swore the nigger pushed him; and the man called Aintree a liar.
If it's proved that you were with that nigger at the improper hour, you'll get your back scarred.
Sure, what signifies; don't be talking your botheration here; a nigger musn't sauce a white man.
A niggerwas a nigger with him, whether white or black-a creature for hog, homony, and servitude.
We may say, in the language of Dunn, when he was asked if negroes had such liberties with white men in Charleston, "A nigger knows a Dutch shopkeeper better than he knows himself-a nigger dare not speak that way to anybody else.
A man what's got a bad nigger has only got to say Old Gadsden to him, and it's equal to fifty paddles.
The matter rested until the next morning, when the case of the little saucy nigger vs.
The dignity of the State was triumphant, and the diminutive nigger was borne off under the arm of its representative.
You can't come your John Bull nigger in South Carolina.
If ye had yer way, sure you'd be makin' white men of every nigger that ye turned a key upon.
I wish the devil had all the nigger stewards and their complaints; the jail's in a fuss with them all the time.
Apparently Stephen Crane had received a favourable impression from the reading of the Nigger of the Narcissus, a book of mine which had also been published lately.
I looked about Abosu to prospect the peculiarities of the place, where the Sierra Leonite and the Cape Coast Anglo-nigger were conspicuous for 'cheek' and general offensiveness.
The northern part of this veritable 'Nigger Digger's Delight' is now comparatively deserted: some chief died there, and the people have crowded into the main body of the settlement.
The strictest regulations are issued to prevent the fatuous nigger killing himself, but all in vain: he is worse, if possible, than his white confrère.
And yet thar might be suthin' in the paint, if a feller had nigger luck.
And only jist now ez I kem in I ketched sight of a furrin lookin' Chinee nigger slinking round the back door of what useter be Ferrers's loft.
He only wanted to look at me, and kept muttering, "Dis nigger can't sleep dis night.
In the corrupted form of "Nigger Jack," it occurs also as the name of a creek of Cullasagee river above Franklin, in Macon county, North Carolina.
The derivation from a certain "Nigger Jack," said to have made the cave his headquarters is purely fanciful.
Do you mean to say that that honery old cross-eyed nigger Kizzy had the audacity to set up before my fire, in my house, an' tell my husband I'd laid a spell on him?
The recruits to Republicanism from that quarter were generally very tender on "the nigger question," and the most they were prepared to admit was that they were opposed to slavery's extension.
It was in an obscure quarter of Boston known as "Nigger Hill.
They were dark, too, for the city of Boston in those days was very economical of light on Nigger Hill.
After about three-quarters of an hour an old nigger man about eighty showed up and asked what I wanted.
Now," continued Ben, "I'll take a spell till the doctor and the old nigger come back.
But if you will keep quiet, Pancha, and not exorcise Banou for the Evil One, that old nigger will give you a cup of liquid not known in the devil's dominions, and treat you also to some white biscuit to nibble upon.
Dar ain't no udder nigger dat could gib Marsa Frank a piece of device de way Ah can.
How can they rave over my one decoration when that young nigger John has two, and deserved them, and when the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker are my ranking officers?
I shall never go to the Country Club," said Judge Bannister, "as long as there is a nigger to fry chicken for me.
The nigger was about to let Melun pass when he saw Westerham, and with a mighty arm barred the way.
The nigger peered eagerly about as though seeking for Melun, and when he saw that Westerham stood there alone, made as though to slam the door on him.
And we want an end to this roping-in of white folks to suit your little game; we want an end to your trying to mix your nigger blood with any one here, and we intend to stop it.
But do you know," he went on, "I never see that nigger but I think of John Hayward of whose last speech in Congress I was telling some of you yesterday.
Lieutenant Morgan of Lodge's company caught the sound of that name, Hayward Graham, and remarked casually, "He has the same name as that Harvard nigger who was smashed up in the Yale game.
He kicked the nigger incontinently out of his house, and was beside himself in the furious wrath he hurled upon his wife and son.
John told me about it a few months afterward, and even then, with all his heart-break, his eyes would blaze with an insane anger as he thought of thatnigger at his table.
We don't think about that damn young nigger no mo' till we take him with the papers and let him think about hisself awhile.
Some of his ideas about the nigger will make any white man mad, and yet nobody ever did make a more forcible protest against Phillips' nigger luncheon, nor paint a more horrible picture of miscegenation.
The nigger has his figure and carriage, even the set and toss of his head, about everything save his colour.
This nigger has assaulted Miss Helen," said Rutledge, gasping and choking with fury.
Justice to the nigger is to make him know his place and teach him to be happy in it; but the Yankees haven't got the sense to see it.
I believe at heart they don't like that any more than we do, but if the Trusts would have permitted it they would have put Phillips and his nigger back there just to show us they could do it.
To give a nigger a few more years of freedom when, likely as not, he don't want it; and Berry Hamilton's life in prison has proved nearer the ideal reached by slavery than anything he has found since emancipation.
When a nigger and a dog go out together at night, one draws certain conclusions.
Tell us where on earth the nigger got the money he 's been putting in the bank?
That nigger had confessed his crime before he was lynched.
So the nigger agreed he could use his hide to try different kinds of medicines on.
But every last nigger we saw looked like he knowed something about us.
He was a velvety-looking, chocolate-coloured kind of nigger to start with, and the best Doctor Kirby had been able to do so fur was to make a few little liver-coloured spots come onto him.
Seemingly the white folks was away fur the day, and an old nigger come up and talked to our driver while Sam and us was at the well.
We seen a little knot of them, down the road there in front of the church, gathering around the nigger that had been with Sam.
And him and me and Mandy, which was the nigger cook, got Bud into the house and into his bed.
The old man says the Ku Kluxes was working fur a principle--the principle of keeping the white supremacy on top of the nigger race.
But his lips was dumb, and his one hand stretched itself out toward that nigger in the road and made a wiping motion, like he was trying fur to wipe the picture of him, and the thought of him, off'n a slate forevermore.
We turned our heads that-a-way, jest as a niggerman give a leap to the top of a rail fence that separated the road from the woods.
But it was making the nigger sick, and the doctor was afraid to go too fur with it, fur Sam might die and we would be at the expense of another nigger.
And how I had stayed at the Davises in Tennessee and got some more of the same story from George, the old nigger there.
This nigger ain't charged with any crime himself, and my idea is that he ain't to be allowed to figure one way or the other in this thing.
Soldiers has told me that in them there Philippine Islands we conquered from Spain, where they is so much nigger blood mixed up with other kinds in the islanders, this mysterious spreading around of news is jest the same.
He saw what looked like the momentary and waving figure of the nigger minstrel, and then he saw a heavy running policeman take the turn of the sand-hill with the smooth solemnity of a railway train.
Remember, don't you, the story about the calf that ate up his express tag and what the old nigger man said about it?
Ef dat nigger had de right name, de name would be Famine!
Now, when a nigger git in de hands of de nigger driver it am de big chance he'll git sold to de cruel massa, and dat make de niggers powerful skeert, so dey 'haves.
We has clothes made of homespun what de nigger women weaved, and de little boys wo' long-tail shirts, with no pants till they's grown.
But de nigger husbands wasn't de only ones dat keeps up havin' chillen, 'cause de marsters and de drivers takes all de nigger gals dey wants.
Stien wasnigger overseer in de shoemakin' and harness, and Aunty Darkins am overseer of de spinnin' and weavin'.
When de Yankees come to see iffen dey had done turn us a-loose, I am a nine year old nigger gal.
Course, we used to hear 'bout other places where they had nigger drivers and beat the slaves.
The niggers used to help feed him, but one day a nigger 'trayed him, and Briscoe put the dogs on him and cotched him.
Marse Riley Surratt had a big plantation; don't know how many acres, but dere was a factory and gins and big houses and lots of nigger quarters.
Dere was lots of slaves in dat country 'round Rob Roy and Free Nigger Bend.
Marse Bob had some nigger dogs like other places, and used to train them for fun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nigger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; boy; darky; nigger; paleface; pygmy; redskin; spade; white
