Celeste," said Mr Durocher, addressing the quadroon girl, "go upon deck and see if you can learn what is the matter.
The door of the cabin had been barricaded by Mr Durocher, as well as he could do so, with the aid of his daughter and the quadroon girl, but the fastenings scarcely withstood for one moment the violent assault of Afton and his men.
The quadroon girl shivered with terror, on her own account, and on account of those to whom she had been so much attached for many years.
The quadroon girl was crouched upon the floor at the feet of her mistress; she also was very pale, and her eyes still had a wild and alarmed look.
Here he was attended by his daughter and a young quadroon slave girl, who waited upon the young lady.
The poor quadroon girl was herself near to the point of swooning; but aroused herself when thus addressed, and hastened to bring the restoratives asked for.
One of La Blanche's little quadroon boys--half naked too--stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers.
She tried to speak to the little quadroon boy; but no sound would come, at first.
Mr. French found no difficulty in securing a purchaser for the quadroon woman, for such are usually the most marketable kind of property.
The appearance of the handsome quadroon caused a deep sensation among the crowd.
Negro balls and parties in the Southern States, especially in the cities and towns, are usually made up of quadroon women, a few negro men, and any number of white gentlemen.
She had learned from Isabella that she had been purchased by Henry, and the innocence of the injured quadroon caused her to acknowledge that he was the father of her child.
Without making any reply, Mrs. Miller pushed the quadroon aside, and entered the house.
Of course, the young man escorted the beautiful quadroon home that evening, and became the favorite visitor at the house of Agnes.
This was the last bid, and the quadroon girl was struck off, and became the property of Henry Linwood.
Ere young Linwood left the quadroon that evening, he promised her that he would become her purchaser, and make her free and her own mistress.
The old woman urged her daughter to demand that the quadroon and her child be at once sold to the negro speculators and taken out of the State, or that Gertrude herself should separate from Henry.
A free quadroon connected with the splendor of Lafitte, the smuggler and patriot.
In Orleans Street, near the east end of the Cathedral, is a Convent of Colored Nuns, which contains what was formerly the famous Quadroon Ballroom, mentioned by Cable, the scene of many celebrated festivities.
And kneeling by the body of the poor quadroon he prayed fervently.
She spent nearly the entire day in it under an arbour of orange and lemon trees, reading pious books and watching her child, who was nursed by a quadroon to whom Dona Emilia was sincerely attached, and had married to a peon of the hacienda.
As she passed the first landing, the quadroon girl was waiting in the hall.
Then two girls were pushed forth, one a quadroonof great beauty, to be fingered.
The son of Appleton Brice of Boston the owner of a beautifulquadroon girl!
You missed seeing this young man you've just employed buy the prettiest quadroon wench I ever set eyes on.
If the Creole ladies have privilege to exercise the awful power of repulsion, the gentle Quadroonhas the sweet but dangerous vengeance of possessing that of attraction.
He twisted out of the grasp of the huge quadroon and turned, raising the knife.
The Hindu and the quadroon remained there for a few minutes, then the Hindu came out and left the cafe, returning to his abode.
Turning, I met a second black gaze--that of the quadroon who having restored order had returned from the cafe door and now stood regarding me.
Before he could draw it, Miguel, the quadroon proprietor, threw himself upon him and tried to pitch him into the street.
Among some of them irregular household establishments were regularly maintained by white men, and there were held the "quadroon balls" which in course of time gave the city a distinct notoriety.
The female quadroonlooks upon such an engagement as a matrimonial contract, though it goes no farther than a formal contract by which the "friend" engages to pay the father or mother of the quadroon a specified sum.
I could not restrain my curiosity, and visited the quadroon ball in the theatre of St. Philippe.
On the same evening, what was called a quadroon ball took place.
Formerly they were known by their black hair and eyes, but at present there are completely fair quadroon males and females.
At thequadroon ball, only coloured ladies are admitted, the men of that caste, be it understood, are shut out by the white gentlemen.
A quadroon is the child of a mestize mother and a white father, as a mestize is the child of a mulatto mother and a white father.
They did not remain long at the ball, but hasted away to the quadroon ball, so called, where they amused themselves more, and were more at their ease.
The bachelor staff was most probably responsible for the mulatto and quadroon offspring and was doubtless responsible also for the occasional manumission of a woman or child.
At New Orleans and thereabouts particularly, concubinage, along with the well known "quadroon balls," was a systematized practice.
A planter, it seems, had fallen deeply in love with a charming quadroon girl.
Confessedly, as a class, the quadroon women of New Orleans are the most beautiful in America.
She is the illegitimate daughter of a son of the late Judge Beaucaire, and a slave mother known as Delia, a quadroon woman.
Perhaps this second woman was Delia, the quadroon mother.
This was all plain enough, but what had become of Kirby, of the two women--Eloise, and the quadroon mother?
He could have been there only for one purpose, surely--in an attempt to guide Eloise Beaucaire and the quadroon Delia.
The love of the quadroon was my source of pleasure; but, alas!
The quadroon smiled, but the moment after her look of sadness returned.
Before I had reached the entrance I could hear the voice of the auctioneer, in the same prolonged drawl, calling out, "Three thousand five hundred bid for the Quadroon girl?
I saw the Quadroon approach this with silent tread, as if meditating some design.
The appearance of the Quadroon created a sensation.
I was satisfied that the disappearance of the quadroon would be at once attributed to me.
I had supposed that the quadroon would be sold to some buyer in the ordinary course; some one who would be disposed to resell at a profit--perhaps an enormous one; but in time I should be prepared for that.
For reasons I could not fathom, the treatment of the quadroon was, and had always been, different from the other slaves of the plantation.
I was about to proclaim aloud its unfairness, in the fact that the Quadroon had been taken out of the order advertised!
Now, this glowing jewellery is not a mere imitation of pure metal: the ear-rings are worth one hundred and seventy-five francs a pair; the necklace of a Martinique quadroon may cost five hundred or even one thousand francs.
His new home was in the house of an aged quadroon who had been a servant in his family many years ago--how long no one seemed to remember!
The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women.
These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
Under the old code noir of Louisiana, the descendant of a white and a quadroon was white.
Under the code noir of Louisiana, the descendant of a white and a quadroon is white, thus drawing the line at one-eighth of Negro blood.
The war broke out, the slaves fled, monsieur, her kind friend went to Richmond and got a company, and Dolores was left in the great house with only one quadroon girl and a couple of old negroes to protect her from danger.
The door grudgingly opened, and a pretty quadroon girl looked out.
The governor sent out cards for a grand ball and supper for the ensuing week, and Miss Betsy Austin, a quadroon woman, ascertaining the fact, sent out her cards for the same evening.
I believe a quadroon and white make the mustee or one-eighth black, and the mustee and white the mustafina, or one-sixteenth black.
To impute moral sublimity to a white man and a quadroon woman at one and the same time and in one and the same affair was something beyond the powers of Camille's small soul.
For a quadroon woman to be true to herself and to her God was not the kind of thing that white men--if he knew them--rewarded.
A quadroon woman's lot was a hard one; any true woman would say that, even while approving the laws and popular notions of necessity that made that lot what it was.
Harriet Martineau discovered a young white man who on visiting a southern lady became insanely enamored of her intelligent quadroon maid.
No scruples of race made Vesta reject this sympathy, precious to her parched breast despite the quadroon taint as the golden sand in the brooks of Africa, giving at once wealth and cooling.
I'm glad old Samson beat him, anyway," the pretty quadroon said, showing her white teeth.
At this moment, the door was pushed gently open, and a young quadroon woman, apparently about twenty-five, entered the room.
The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroongirls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl.
Here the door opened, and a small quadroon boy, between four and five years of age, entered the room.
Rosa, a bright, piquant little quadroon who came skipping down stairs at this moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quadroon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cross; hybrid; mestizo; mongrel; mulatto; mule; octoroon; quadroon; zambo
