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Example sentences for "white person"

  • To shake hands with a white person is a gratification which they highly prize.

  • He said it was their uniform custom to bow or touch their hat when they passed a white person.

  • Any kindness shown them by a white person, was treasured up and never forgotten.

  • On the other hand, the slightest neglect or contempt from a white person, was keenly felt.

  • Footnote 30: "A slave cannot be a witness against a white person, either in a civil or criminal cause.

  • The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

  • The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.

  • The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.

  • The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.

  • Smith at Ponpon; and One Hundred Dollars will be paid on conviction of their being harboured by a White person.

  • One Hundred dollars will be paid on conviction of a white person taking or having taken Tom's irons off, and twenty if by a Negro.

  • In 1828 Elizabeth Smith's George was acquitted of larceny from the house; and next year Caroline was likewise acquitted on a charge of maiming a white person.

  • The laws of South Carolina and Georgia make it an offence punishable with death, "if any slave shall presume to strike a white person.

  • Will the test show whether it's a white person's skin or a nigger's?

  • There's no pigment in a white person's skin.

  • The clause forbidding marriages between a white person and a negro, Indian, or mulatto was repealed Feb.

  • For an assault with intent to kill, by a slave upon a white person, where express malice was clearly proven, the punishment was death.

  • No previous indictment was essential, but in all other respects the trial was conducted just as in the case of a white person.

  • Defn: The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.

  • Defn: The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

  • A free mulatto was good evidence," says he, "against a white person.

  • A white person's word is taken as absolutely for as against a Negro.

  • But the most that could be expected as a penalty for acting or speaking saucily to a white person would be a slight physical chastisement to make the Negro "know his place" or an arrest and fine.

  • Then the elder lady said, "If it hadn't been for you we might never have seen a white person again.

  • We had traveled down what is now called the Pan Handle country, to where the city of Bowie now stands, before we saw a white person after we left Bent's Fort.

  • I think we traveled between four and five hundred miles without seeing a white person.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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