Sentence Examples
Best-known brands are the medium dry Carta Nevada, launched in 1951, and Cordon Negro, a brut Cava in a distinctive black bottle. |
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In the Rio Negro, it inhabits the large swamps that form where tributaries meet the main branch of the river. |
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The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. |
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The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon. |
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Hustu de la Madrid, better known as El Negro, chants out something in the Yoruba language as he tosses four pieces of coconut shells onto the floor to talk to the spirits. |
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As our piloteiro, David Albuquerque, maneuvered an aluminum fishing boat along the tannin-stained Rio Negro, we saw toco toucans and jabiru storks. |
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Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. |
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The Casiquiare is a river distributary of the upper Orinoco, which flows southward into the Rio Negro, which in turn flows into the Amazon. |
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Brazil has never lynched a Negro, suffered a race riot, had a sit-in protest or hosted a freedom march. |
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It featured collaborations with the Pet Shop Boys, William Orbit, Soul Mekanik, Joey Negro, Mark Ronson, Chris Grierson, and The Orr Boys. |
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In such a case the sheriff, if he were an extreme utilitarian, would appear to be committed to framing the Negro. |
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In this journey, Orellana baptised some of the affluents of the Amazonas like Rio Negro, Napo and Jurua. |
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Use of terra firme forest by Caicubi Caboclos, middle Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. |
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Hunter also said that blisters and burns would likely turn white on a Negro, which he believed was evidence that their ancestors were originally white. |
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The first was at Cabo Negro, Angola, the second at Cape Cross. |
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In April 1741 one of the Indian guides returned reporting that in 1740 Horstman had crossed over to the Rio Branco and descended it to its confluence with the Rio Negro. |
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Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him. |
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Granddaddy Henry Grinner said no matter where you go in the world and no matter what you see, somewhere up in there you will find a negro. |
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The other reason was that Waldo had backhanded her across the mouth after she refused to give him beso negro. |
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The earliest legal documentation of such a shift was in 1640 where a negro, John Punch, was sentenced to lifetime slavery for attempting to run away. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
But most Southerners preferred the rule of the army to the alternative reign of the carpetbagger, scalawag, and Negro. |
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In Pennsylvania as early as 1677 a white servant was indicted for cohabiting with a Negro. |
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The coal heaver had only trousers and an undershirt on, and looked as black as a Negro. |
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Some did not want the Negro, bonded or free, to take part as a soldier in the struggle. |
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He said when lunchtime came he was working in one of the upper floors with a Negro. |
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Biographical sketches of every Tennessee nonagenarian and centenarian Negro. |
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It is very quaint, this self-satisfaction of the barbadian Negro. |
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It was an effort to becloud and stamp out the intellect of the Negro! |
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Her child was thirty-one parts white, and he, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a Negro. |
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Thus Providence, by the means of this Negro, saved the whole of the poor family from destruction. |
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The first teacher of whom we have a record was one Enos Wilson, a Negro. |
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Far inland, also on the Rio Negro, is Roca, a small military post. |
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In her special pleading for the Negro, she did not forget women. |
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But Tuskegee is, nevertheless, a brand-new chapter in the history of the Negro, and in the history of the knottiest problem we have ever faced. |
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To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. |
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Cape Negro, a little within the second Narrows, may be considered as the point where the land begins to assume the marked features of Tierra del Fuego. |
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I don't know that you can notice it, but it is evident to me that the foot inside the sandal that made these imprints were not the foot of a Negro. |
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There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man. |
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The ceiba is the sacred tree of the negro, the temple of Jumbi the proper home of obeah. |
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With freedom, the negro, en masse, relapsed promptly into the voodooism of Africa. |
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The Dred Scott Decision was that the negro, not being a voter, was not a citizen. |
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One of these men was costal, but this time he was accompanied by Clara the negro. |
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The figure was that of a negro, who sat on a rock pile in the sun, hammering limestone chunks into road metal. |
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The grandmother of Rev. wamble was a full-blooded African negro, brought to this country as a slave at seventeen years of age. |
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Not a little doubt had been felt by the court when deliberating upon the admissibility of the testimony of the old negro. |
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The two races, the Anglo-Saxon and the negro, have antipodal constitutions. |
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With the help of his newspaper friends, Stuart was able to send to his paper a fairly well-written article on the barbadian negro. |
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The Caucassian of today is now believed by men of science to be only a bleached negro. |
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He was admitted, and recognized the poor negro, now in custody as a recaptured slave. |
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Then throwing aside his crutches, he began to cut capers, as if nothing ailed him, to the still greater amazement of the negro. |
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I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man. |
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He remembered salina's warning, and was glad of any excuse to liberate the old negro. |
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Mr. Swain had his negro, Romney, place chairs for us under the apple tree, and bring out pipes and sangaree. |
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The morning brought dismay to the negro, the carpet-bagger, and the scallawag of Ulster. |
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This self-appointed guide was no negro, no mulatto, of that Manuel was sure. |
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These occasions mark the evolution of Southern thought and industry, and the result of the self-directed energy of the negro. |
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The fetor of the skin, so characteristic of the negro, is not found in the Bushman. |
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For the negro, released by grummet, despite half a pint of rum poured down his throat, is scarcely able to keep his feet. |
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Upon looking back we saw that it was the giant negro, snollygoster, who spoke. |
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A drowsy negro, his locum tenens, was the only human thing that offered itself to my eyes. |
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She is principled against it, and says she will not be rung about the house like a negro. |
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It was blown by a caitiff negro, a deserter from Uncle Sams swart cavalry. |
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Now trollop ought to be on our side, for he is a friend of the negro. |
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The crier of the court, a young negro, made his announcements. |
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However, I am not a negro, and if I were I think a little hesitation in this case would not be ill-timed. |
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The musician was an old gray-headed negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century. |
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Our steward was a Portuguese negro, of the most vicious and surly temper. |
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His hand shook as he snatched the smudgy sheets from the negro. |
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We want no longer any heavy-footed, melancholy service from the negro. |
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Toots was found vigorously punishing a flashily dressed negro. |
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The negro, who knew no other name than 'sambo' we brought to Toronto. |
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Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come. |
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The cook was a huge, jet-black negro, and, unlike all the negroes Harvey had met, did not talk, contenting himself with smiles and dumb-show invitations to eat more. |
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