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Example sentences for "white man"

  • Well,” says I, “you’re a nice kind of a white man!

  • By this time we had come in view of the house of these three white men; for a negro is counted a white man, and so is a Chinese!

  • And tell them plain that I demand the reason of this treatment as a white man and a British subject.

  • Well, hardly, and call myself a white man.

  • Now, there's mostly a white man mixed up in the affair.

  • He's a Mexican, all right, but he has as much sense as a white man.

  • You'll never know how a man's eyes ache to see a straight-up white man in this land of greasers.

  • Well done, daughter of Montezuma, and you, white man,' gasped the dying king.

  • Quetzal, the god to whom this Teule is to be offered, was a white man,* and it may well happen that this man is one of his children.

  • I was a stranger and a white man, surely such a one would prove an offering more acceptable to the gods than that furnished by a thousand Indian hearts.

  • Go back, white man,' she answered; 'it is not lawful for strangers to mingle in our rites.

  • Blacks are not supposed to dare so highly as to offer to fight a white man.

  • Be-be-because you were a white man," she sobbed.

  • A white man, whom he recognized as the Jessie's captain, walked in front and opened the gate, then dropped behind to close it.

  • You tell 'm white man close up we fella boat's-crew go along.

  • And I won't stay any longer than I have to--just long enough to get you on your feet, and not go away with the feeling of having deserted a white man.

  • He was a white man, a planter, and was now taking his year's production of cacao, about twenty tons, to Para.

  • Wherever a white man meets a family, or even an individual of the tribe, he is almost sure to be reminded of this alliance.

  • Nay, white man, it is the truth," was the somewhat awed answer.

  • Once before a woman showed the chamber to a white man, and behold!

  • I stared at it, and saw that this too was a dead man, and, what was more, a white man.

  • Ye have the stones; now ye would go to Natal and across the moving black water and sell them, and be rich, as it is the desire of a white man's heart to be.

  • It is very well for natives to have a name for one among themselves, but it is not decent that they should call a white man by their heathenish appellations to his face.

  • The meaning of the whole is just this: As a white man is to a negro, so is a negro to a crocodile; and as the negro may rightfully treat the crocodile, so may the white man rightfully treat the negro.

  • If it was like two wrecked seamen on a narrow plank, when each must push the other off or drown himself, I would push the negro off or a white man either, but it is not; the plank is large enough for both.

  • I made the mistake of treating you like a white man.

  • Mother Hart, I'm a white man in everything but half my mother's blood.

  • To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one.

  • That's a white man; he calls that fun: humph!

  • There are few places in all the world that are more depressing to a white man than a Chinese city.

  • Siam excluded all foreigners until the century's first quarter had passed, and Laos saw no white man till 1868.

  • Before her death, she had told him that he would die suddenly, violently, in a struggle with a white man in a far-off country, but that the white man would die too by his hand.

  • Evelly tangata, evelly fafine, got close all same papalang [every man and woman has clothes like a white man]; go chapella all day Sunday.

  • Under the respective charters of these areas, not even a member of the clan can get a separate title as owner in an area -- let alone a native outsider who had grown up among white people and done all his farming on white man's land.

  • It is an honour to one of these girls to have a child by a white man, and it is a degradation to him to marry a dark girl.

  • He, as a white man's dog, was taboo to all blacks.

  • No white man in the Solomons knew what he carried about with him, waking and often sleeping; and it was because of these pictures that he had come to the Solomons in a vain effort to erase them.

  • Never had he permitted any of his wives to appear before a white man, and Van Horn felt so honoured that he presented each of them with a gay clay pipe and a dozen sticks of tobacco.

  • Even then it was hard to make her talk, for she had never seen a white man, and thought I had bought her for some dreadful purpose or other.

  • It is a poor Kaffir that does not love fighting, especially when he has a gun and a white man or two to lead him.

  • See, White Man," he shouted, "here is the bait which the king sends to draw the holy birds to you.

  • Also the peoples of the districts through which we passed flocked round us at every outspan, for most of them had never seen a white man before, and in return for a few beads brought us all the food that we required.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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