177 Verbs to Use for the Word blacker

When he closed it, to take up the defence of Canada, the prospect was already black enough, though it grew blacker still as time went on.

While on the hill we saw a few blacks, but they did not approach; the day was cloudy and cool, clearing after sunset.

In case your memory for faces is poorit has been a long time since we met, hasn't it?I shall be wearing the conventional fast black with my very best ingenue expression; and my feather fan will be flame-coloured.

On Mr. Butler's motion, for considering blacks as equal to whites in the apportionment of representation,Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia, aye3; Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, no7.

Nancy's curly chestnut crop shone in the sun, and Olive's thick black plaits looked blacker by contrast.

In our present knowledge we can not fill the gaps, so we must yet hold the blacks of the Orient to be separate races.

Mr. King remarked that the four Eastern States, having 800,000 souls, have one-third fewer representatives than the four Southern States, having not more than 700,000 souls, rating the blacks as five for three.

The clause so often quoted,"power of legislation in all cases whatsoever," equally in the "case" of defending the blacks against the whites, as in that of defending the whites against the blacks.

Moreover, when within a generation or so the Negroes began to retrograde because they had been deprived of every elevating influence, the white people of the South resorted to their old habit of answering their critics with the bold assertion that the effort to enlighten the blacks would prove futile on account of their mental inferiority.

" Now did my Beltane frown the blacker by reason of bitter memory and the pain of his wound.

If they've brought any blacks with 'em, I shall let 'em know what the laws of Massachusetts are; and then they may take their freedom or not, just as they choose.

If you painted your face black and your hair vermilion, I should still know you at once.

"Tell me who hired you to rob my fur farm, and not leave a single black in the burrows, and I'll let you go free.

She advertised in the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" an establishment to educate freed blacks and mulattoes in West Tennessee.

Another objection with him, against admitting the blacks into the census, was, that the people of Pennsylvania would revolt at the idea of being put on a footing with slaves.

You play the black, and the red comes up, by Richard Hallas, pseud.

He poured the liquid into his coffee and watched white swirls turn the black to brown.

This question having been seemingly settled, Anthony Benezet, who for years advocated the abolition of slavery and devoted his time and means to the preparation of the Negroes for living as freedmen, was practical enough to recommend to the Congress of the Confederation a plan of colonizing the emancipated blacks on the western lands.

But at last, when she began to think they must be threading a maze, they plunged into a little square court, where a lantern over one dark doorway showed faintly the blacks of irregularly built houses.

What conscience is not aroused at the thought of those prejudices of skin which do not permit blacks to sit by the side of whites, in schools, churches, or public vehicles?

"Yes," replied the old black.

For you can perceive at once, that interested men, who believe the colored man is so much better off here than he possibly can be in Africa, will not hesitate to kidnap the blacks whenever an opportunity presents itself.

The latter generally believed that the blacks constituted an inferior class that could not discharge the duties of citizenship, and when the proposal to incorporate the blacks into the body politic was clearly presented to these agitators their anti-slavery ardor was decidedly dampened.

" When the slaves were made free, some of the overseers tooted horns, calling the blacks from their toil in the fields.

" "There rat in 'em," returned the literal and simple-minded black; "you hear what Misse Wyllys say?" Gertrude turned, laughed, patted the dark cheek of her attendant with fingers that looked like snow by the contrast, as if to chide her for wishing to destroy the pleasing illusion she would so gladly harbour and then bounded down the hill after her aunt and governess, like a joyous and youthful Atalanta.

177 Verbs to Use for the Word  blacker