I only know that Ermiña is a remarkably white mulatto of theoctoroon class; that she has been educated like a lady; and that she is the bosom companion of Don Benigno's daughters.
For Perpetua belongs to the octoroon 'species' of mulatto.
Half sitting, half leaning on the Captain's table, she preserved her courage sufficiently to seek to calm the octoroon waiting-woman who was grovelling at her feet in a state of terror.
At that moment a lane was opened in the ranks of the men, and through this came Miss Bishop followed by her octoroon woman.
I envy him," murmured Madame; "the picture is the pretty octoroon glorified.
The Marquise noted that Dumaresque was among them, and they stood before his donation of sketches, of which the principal one was a little study of the octoroon dancer, Kora.
The octoroon looked at her in a startled, suspicious way.
She looked at the lovelyoctoroon with meaning, and the black velvety eyes fell under that regard.
The octoroon struggled to escape, but the mate and Buck held him tight.
Of course we used the octoroon as a waiter; and even Gopher took a hand at the same occupation, for he liked to hear what the party said about the dinner.
The deckhand was the stoutest person on board, and he bore the octoroon to the deck in an instant, and wrenched the knife from his grasp.
Ben had by this time proved that he was the more powerful and efficient of the two, for the octoroon had been pinned, as it were, to the deck, so that he was unable to do anything but kick.
Jake still hesitated, and when at last he was about to speak, the eye of the octoroon woman caught his, and chained the words to his tongue, as if by magnetic power.
He was bleeding to death; he must have care or he'll die,' said the octoroon woman.
Edward had started violently; he turned to find the sad, changeless face of the octoroon at his side.
The octoroonentered and stood waiting, her eyes cast down.
He found the octoroon downstairs upon the back steps.
But Dolores, before retiring called Pascherette to dress her hair and gave the little octoroon some secret instructions against the morning.
The octoroon gave no sign of life, and the giant dropped her hand and gently raised her pallid face.
The little octoroon lay where she had fallen, a pitiful little huddled heap; never once had her pain-dulled eyes left the giant, or the place where he might appear.
He left his fellows and went to the tiny alcove where the little octoroon lay, and his great heart leaped in response to the worship that shone in her dark eyes.
For there the little octoroonwas to play a part for Sancho's especial benefit.
It was the scream that told the little octoroonwhere the fire had birth.
The old negro is a masterpiece of genre sketching; and the Louisiana girl and her Octoroon mother are no less clean cut and graphic.
Vividly told, with a beautiful Octoroon as the central figure.
Jake still hesitated, and when at last he was about to speak, the eye of the octoroon caught his, and chained the words to his tongue, as if by magnetic power.
At last the octoroon woman asked me if I had met Mrs. Barnes at the farmer's.
The circumstance showed the powerful influence held over him by the octoroon woman.
He was bleeding to death; unless he has care he'll die," said the octoroon woman.
In the centre of the group, and at the head of the rude coffin, the Colonel was seated, and near him the octoroon woman and her son.
Her mother was the octoroon woman, Suzanne, owned by old Judge Marquette in New Orleans.
This girl is not the daughter of the octoroon woman, Suzanne.
The intrigue with the octoroon woman, Suzanne, came after that.
Sarah was to be sold away from her little boy of three years for a fancy girl, as she was a beautiful octoroon and attractive in person.
I give him back the liberty he bestowed upon me; for I can never repay him the love he bore his poor Octoroon child, on whose breast his last sigh was drawn, into whose eyes he looked with the last gaze of affection.
Perhaps you were right never to tell me about my father's marriage to the octoroon girl; but you must have known that I would find it out on arriving here.
She was a mulatto or octoroonas they say, and as pretty as a red wagon.
The octoroon died in childbirth, leaving a daughter still living and in this town.
The man liked the octoroon, the octoroon liked the man.
Turning to the octoroon she said: "Will you feed him, Zoe?
She knew that he had married the octoroon not many years after my mother's death.
I saw standing at the foot of the bed, anoctoroon about fourteen years of age.
A story went the rounds that a young man in Virginia fell in love with an octoroonslave while on a visit to a country house.
What the deuce do you suppose I care about his octoroon daughters?
All at once he said, "Fitzgerald, did you ever find those handsome octoroon girls?
The bit of sumac out of which the octoroon had improvised a nosegay lighted up her skin and eyes, and created an ensemble as closely resembling a Henri painting as anything the streets of Hooker's Bend were destined to see.
In fact, no one is more exquisitely polite than an octoroon woman when she desires to be polite, when she elevates the subserviency of her race into graciousness.
The octoroon made no further comment on his confusion.
It also recalled a certain octoroon girl named Ida May, and an intimacy with her which it still moved and saddened Peter to think of.
Rose's speech was charged with such contempt for her own color that it placed the mulatto and the octoroon down with apes and rabbits.
Strange to say, when the octoroon actually was walking past, Peter did not look at her steadily.
You don't imagine--" The octoroon opened her dark eyes until she might have been some weird.
Indeed, in a way, the old manor became a sort of apology for the octoroon girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octoroon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
