This anonymous epistle informed him that eleven slaves had been arrested, and were to be tried before Alderman Douglass that morning; that the owners were gentlemen of wealth and high standing, and could produce the most satisfactory evidence that the persons arrested were their slaves; consequently Friend Hopper's attendance could be of no possible benefit to them.

Her owner was Master Beard.

Her owners are Messrs. Lee & Tyler, Merchants there, Thomas Smith was her commander, & there were 5 Spaniards aboard, whom we took.

The seer, however, might be reminded that not all the owners of those carriages are the children of idleness, living by the sweat of another man's brow; many of them are professional men or chiefs of industry, working as hard with their brains as any mechanic works with his hands, and indispensable ministers of the highest civilization.

During the period that its owner was commandante of the northern frontier, the Vallejo home was headquarters for high officials of the province.

The slave-owner, the exploiter of the black, becomes a threat and a nuisance to any white democracy.

The owners of such slaves then are licensed robbers, and not the just proprietors of what they claim.

My owners was Robert and Mary Ball.

Every man's tongue was loosened as if its owner was the only man amid all the company who knew exactly which was the wisest course to pursue, and I dare venture to say never a commander had under him at a critical moment, such as this certainly was, so many pig-headed recruits.

Little did the viceroys think that its last owner would be an Irishman.

"You will to-morrow," said the owner of the lark, calmly; and squatting, became engrossed in poking a grasshopper between the brown, varnished splints of the cage.

Perhaps she would toss it saucily aside, perhaps let it rest on her coquettish braids,a token that its owner was her accepted gallant for the evening.

Her last owner was Dr. Pope, ten miles south of Augusta, Arkansas.

Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mark C. Trotter, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 71 "My owners was Miss Betty and Mr. Luke Trotter.

The owner of the hotel was a very good customer of Ashok's and so Ashok was keen to solve the problem.

Mama's owner was Dillard.

In the first place, on some of the great Southern estates, the owners are habitual absentees, utterly unknown to their serfs, and enjoying the proceeds of their labour in residences as remote as possible from the sands and swamps where their rice and cotton grow, and their slaves bow themselves under the eye of the white overseer, and the lash of the black driver.

"The owners of the houses that were hit by our shells are rather proudproud of our marksmanship, proud that we gave the unwelcome guest a hot pill to swallow.

Correspondingly, "owner" is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of "proprietor."

This shallow sophistry was accepted by the French National Convention when it swept away estates of nobles and clergy, not on the tenable ground that the owners were public enemies, but on the baseless pretext that their property belonged to the nation.

"The owner of the dog wasn't a bad-looking fellow, eitherinteresting, too, I haven't a doubt, and I do like interesting people!

"My mother's owners was Ellis from Alabama.

The donkey owner was an inn-keeper, and the sight of Tartarin's money made him quite friendly.

"The fact is that there's so much tradition and legendary lore connected with the old place, and its early owners were such a set of bold and defiant robbers, that for generations the peasantry have held it in awe.

"On this passage an impression has gone abroad that slave-owners are necessarily menstealers; how hastily, any one will perceive who consults the passage in its connection.