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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word octoroon? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| He lights instead on an octoroon from Baltimore and a Frenchwoman brought up in the Calcutta Botanic Garden by a Bengali wet-nurse. |
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| But once you get into octoroon territory, it holds far less mystique. |
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| Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories, such as mulatto and octoroon. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Until the stranger was close upon the octoroon, I had not seen him. |
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| Vividly told, with a beautiful octoroon as the central figure. |
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| The engineer at once relinquished his hold on the octoroon, and stood up. |
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| The octoroon struggled to escape, but the mate and Buck held him tight. |
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| This girl is not the daughter of the octoroon woman, Suzanne. |
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| To make Iola Leroy acceptable to a white audience, the black heroine would have to be physically almost white, a mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon. |
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| Homer plessy was, in the now antiquated parlance of the times, an octoroon, being one-eighth black and seven-eighths white. |
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| Bon's octoroon mistress leads a twilight existence of luxury, clouded and constrained by patriarchal domination and racist exclusion. |
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