There were four in the little party, but one of these was a negress, red-turbaned, and black as the ace of spades, a servant evidently, standing in silence behind the others.

It is mentioned, as an instance of fidelity, that a negress is the gaoler of the women in Tangier.

It is difficult to ascertain any thing like the exact number, the opulent Moors having many negress slaves, with whom they live in a state of concubinage.

The complexion of the population is dark, from its alliance with Negress slaves, like most towns advanced in the Desert.

" They approached the dwelling; and in answer to the bell, the door was opened by a comely young negress, with a turban of bright colors on her head and golden hoops in her ears.

"But how can I help it?" Before there was time to respond to this question, the negress with the bright turban announced that tea was ready.

"It seems to be the love-song of a young negress, addressed to a white lover.

What is the matter with my little one?" said the negress.

Peter remembered that Miss Molly Brownell always doled out to his mother, at Monday's washday dinner, exactly one biscuit less than the old negress wanted to eat, and she always paid her in old clothes.

Presently the master of the launch came by, and touched the old negress, not ungently, with the end of a spike-pole.

As he entered the rickety gate, old Caroline called out: "Whut is you after, anyway, white man?" Bobbs turned cold, truculent eyes on the old negress.

The fat old negress made a slight, habitual settling movement in her chair that marked the end of her cooking and the beginning of her meal.

Now the disposition of its single ray of light over the dishes and the bowed head of the massive negress gave Peter one of those sharp, tender apprehensions of formal harmony that lie back of the genre in art.

The old negress dropped the subject, and nodded at a huge double pan on the table.

The old negress drove her point home with an acid accent.

"Look here, Mother, you're not using old canned goods that have been left over?" The old negress stood looking at him in silence, but lost her coaxing expression.

The old negress turned back to the kitchen.

The voice of the negress was music itself; almost as sweet as Lucy's; and I was struck with a slight tremor that pervaded it, as she so suddenly put an end to all her own affectation of sentiment, and nipped her airs and graces, as it might be, in the bud.

The negro, or, in the case which came to my knowledge, the negress was compelled to stand barefoot upon a block filled with sharp pegs and nails for two or three hours.

In short, I consider El Casero the representative of so useful and peculiar a class of the community, that I have honoured him with a wood-cut wherein he is seen bargaining with a negress for fowls, or vice versâ,whichever the reader prefers,for not being the artist, I cannot undertake to decide which idea he meant to convey.

He saw a negress, a Sudanese duenna, crouching in a corner and staring at him with white eyes.

The crew was a single old negress, whose head was wound about with a blue Madras handkerchief, and who stood at the prow, and by a singular rotary motion, rowed the barge with a teaspoon.

"Where is my mother?" The negress shook her head.

Frowenfeld stepped back to it, cut half the bunch and returned, with the bold intention of making her a present of it; but as he hastened back to the spot he had left, he was astonished to see the lady disappearing from his farthest front door, followed by her negress.

The negress, who, resting near by with a tray of cakes before her, has been for some time contemplating the three-quarter face of her unconscious neighbor, drops her head at last with a small, Ethiopian, feminine laugh.