A clear, small bell chimed sweetly on the stillness, and the King, raising himself a little, signed to a black slave who carried a tall silver wand emblematic of some office.
He who is now vacant dust “Was once the slave of one passion:” Give that much inscription “Death why tardily come?
No messenger should come wholly empty, and a slave should fear plausibilities; Much conversation is as good as having a home.
Sir Francis de Winton said that Mr. Arnot had made the name of Englishman respected wherever he went, and had helped effectually in stopping the slave trade.
Had the wily Egyptian played the slave so well, as finally in good earnest to have become one?
Be it at once confessed that Mr. Helwyse travelled unattended, that there was no slave or other person of any kind in the room, and that this high-sounding order of his was a mere ebullition of his peculiar humor.
He says of woman: "Too long a slave and a tyrant have been hidden in woman.
He has a contempt for every one who learns from others, for he regards such a man as a slave to other people's thought.
Schopenhauer had taught him that the intellect, with its comprehension of truth, is a mere slave of the will, ancilla voluntatis.
We grant that the self should not be the slave of morality; it should not feel the "ought" as a command; it should identify itself with it and make its requirements the object of its own free will.
Aye, now, slave girl, take to yonder forest of palms and elude him who follows, for the wolf of Rome is on thy track.
Again the slave girl's cry was heard from under the wolf hide.
And when they have great stores of that which is vile and useless, do they sew it together into a garment and sell it for a pittance to a slave to cover his naked body.
And who would keep the slave and working man forever under the heel of the master?
And when the eunuch seized the slave girl and gathered her under the thick fur, her screams were those of honest fear for she knew not what might be in store for her.
The first glimpse of the little Greek slave was that of a fairy dancing into the shadowy background.
What said he that did hold together the crowd, that did bring tears to the scarred face of the slave and that did drive them away again with a glad light?
But might not the pittance paid for a rag-picker's garment be more to the slave than fifty million sesterces to one whose toil earned not even the first of them?
From a slave the wife of Pontius Pilate doth get learning?
Oppression hath grown mighty until all the world is divided into two classes, the slave who toileth and the master who remaineth idle.
Would that my lips might tell into the ear of the noble Claudia the story of the scar thy late-bought slave doth bear.
For a moment the slave stood as if dazed before his breath shaped the words "Freedom?
Save as the centurion's slave hath spoken know I nothing.
Yet neither the woman nor the slave saw aught but Jesus.
Now, however, the slave was no longer an accident of war.
Columbus was not an avaricious, nor a cruel man; and certainly he was a very pious one; but early in life he had made voyages along the coast of Africa, and he was accustomed to a slave trade.
They bitterly bewailed their lot in having to work and slave for a parcel of savages, but finally forgot their grievances in a slumber under a bush.
Such was Barty Josselin, the most ready lover of his kind that ever existed, the slave of his last impression.
Laeta stretched out her hand and took a little cap which an old slave laughingly offered her.
But the tavern-keeper barred their way, calling them a vileslave and a worthless she-ass.
Charles Ennis informs me that he was sixty-two years old last June; that he was the slave of Mr. G.
I was a slave until freed the by war, but I never received such treatment during all my life as a slave.
I have very earnestly urged the slave States to adopt emancipation; and it ought to be, and is, an object with me not to overthrow or thwart what any of them may in good faith do to that end.
From that eventful day onward, the mighty aspiration of the ex-slave for education and material development has written a new page in the history of the world's progress.
Born a slave in Union County, South Carolina, like many a black boy, he has had to forge his way to the front.
Alabama by the traders in 1857, through the famous Richmond Slave Pen.
This thriftless slave of passion, this child-man, this much condemned clog to the progress of Southern civilization is called the vagrant Negro.
The incompatibility of an ordained minister of the same denomination being a slave was recognized in the manumission of Rev.
To my mind but one merit can be claimed for the old system of enslavement--a discipline as to labor which produced the best results to the master class and made the slave orderly and systematic in the performance of his tasks.
He was born of slave parents, just in time to be spared the horrible experiences of that slave system which swept over this country with such direful results.
The child of the African slave is under the same linguistic necessity as the offspring of Depew and Gladstone.
But in all these twenty-five years the black slave wife is still living, still ignorant and yielding all the while to age until she is an old woman.
Washington, who about forty-two years ago was born a slave in Virginia.
It is a long way from the depth of the valley to the summit of the mountain; from a barbarian to a master mechanic; from the jungles of Africa to a successful business career, and from the slave cabin to the professor's chair.
Prior to the beginning of colonial slave traffic, the Negro, as found in his original home, the dark continent, was innocent and simple in his habits, possessed of a very high regard for truth and virtue.
Footnote 1: It was the dying boast of Dutugaimunu that he had lived "a slave to the priesthood.
And although the liberality of theoretical Buddhism threw open, even to the lowest caste, all the privileges of the priesthood, the slave alone was repulsed, on the ground that his admission would deprive the owner of his services.
The character of Dutugaimunu is succinctly expressed in his dying avowal, that he had lived "a slave to the priesthood.
Tis well the old slave hath some care of his credit; to whom owes he, trow I?
What a Friday-faced slave it is: I think in my conscience, his face never keeps holiday.
I'll proclaim the slave The vilest dastard that e'er broke his word.
Than have suborn'd that slave to lift his hand against me.
But I am sure of this, that no slave being led to sacrifice carried a heavier heart in his breast than that of Montezuma on this unlucky day.
Indeed those gentlemen,' and he pointed to the two black men who were taking advantage of our talk to throw into the sea the slave who followed me up the hatchway, 'are waiting to put a stop to our conversation.
I thought I had you in the slave ship, I thought that the sharks had you in the water, but somehow you escaped me whom you came to hunt.
It may be so, prince, but though in my own country I am a man of repute and wealth, here I am nothing but a slave snatched from the sacrifice.
Indeed, though I did wed her, I might still have declared myself to my affianced and to all the world as a slave of events from which there was no escape.
Still I swam on slowly, and after the filth and stench of the slave hold, the touch of the clean water and the breath of the pure air were like food and wine to me, and I felt strength enter into me as I went.
And I said with the priests, that now in our sore distress the proud must humble themselves to the dust, even to the marrying of a captive slave who is named a god and doomed to sacrifice.
Our manhood to the slave bench, our daughters to dishonour, our souls to the loving-kindness of the priest, our wealth to the Emperor and the Pope!
The domestic slave trade commenced to be of importance after 1820, when cotton culture spread among the Gulf States.
This query is respectfully referred to the Anglo-American Drug Company, of New York,' which makes its handsome profit from this slave trade.
De Vassé was well acquainted with Ninon's peculiarities and knew that the gallantry of such a man as de Sévigné was a feeble means of retaining the affections of a heart that was the slave of nothing but its own fugitive desires.
They were the friends, and one was the slave of my grandfather; and as long as I can remember, have they been aged men!
Hugh's leases will soon be falling in, and then he can't make a slave of any man for a longer period than five years.
As the slave of a Littlepage, he held pedlars as inferior beings; for the ancient negroes of New York ever identified themselves, more or less, with the families to which they belonged, and in which they so often were born.
After losing poor Garry, who was born a slave in my father's house, I became indifferent, and accepted the first comer from the intelligence office.
He who had been originally a slave had risen step by step in the favour of his master until he arrived at the giddy eminence which he occupied at the time of his death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
