Blacks

Examples

• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The rope sped with singing whir high above the heads of the blacks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They said you had gone to join the blacks--that they were your people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It must have been done by a party of blacks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The blacks have fired the temple, he cried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The blacks, their eyes protruding in horror, watched spellbound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• For each one of you there are ten thousand blacks within the domains of the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Then I set the lever at high speed and as the blacks came yelling upon us I slipped from the craft's deck and with drawn long-sword met the attack. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Without exception the blacks were handsome men, and well built. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Gently I pressed it open a crack; enough to discover a dozen blacks stretched upon their silks in profound slumber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A mature spinster, and having but faint ideas of marriage, her love for the blacks occupied almost all her feelings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the mean while, a Dutch ship came into the road, and some of the blacks, going on board her, were treacherously seized and carried off as slaves. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The blacks in charge of the work explored them, taking several of us along to do whatever work there might be occasion for. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The blacks are all noble. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Whoever blacks Sergeant Cuff's boots ought to be ashamed of himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The nation still lives, and the people are just as free to avoid social intimacy with the blacks as ever they were, or as they are with white people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Scarcely had Mbonga ceased speaking when a great crashing of branches in the trees above them caused the blacks to look up in renewed terror. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The whites are opaque, the solid blacks are clear glass, the intermediate tones showing the same values in stipples of various sizes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I do not know why I should kill the blacks back there in my jungle, yet not kill them here. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• That would soon put a stop to the attacks, or at least the blacks would scarce be so bold. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The places of the outer world and the temples of the therns had been robbed of their princesses and goddesses that the blacks might have their slaves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Lead us to some sunny isle, Yonder in the western deep; Where the skies for ever smile, And the blacks for ever weep, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had just disarmed a huge fellow who had given me a desperate struggle, and for a moment the blacks stood back for a breathing spell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Two blacks went down with our swords in their vitals, and we stood face to face with Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Well, there seemed little to worry about on that score, for the likelihood of my ever escaping the blacks was extremely remote. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Presently one of the blacks looked up, and beholding Tarzan, turned, shrieking, toward the palisade. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At the same moment a girl's shriek rang out behind me and an instant later, as the blacks fell upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The blacks were nearly upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The result was a partial amalgamation of the blacks, whites and yellows, the result of which is shown in the present splendid race of red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is only fair to state that they probably wanted their blacks to raise supplies for the army and for the families left at home. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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