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Updated: September 5, 2025
It is of no value here," says he; "there are several people among these huts that would weigh gold against a few glass beads or a cockle-shell, and give you a handful of gold-dust for a handful of cowries." N.B. These are little shells which our children call blackamoors' teeth. When he had said thus he pulled out a piece of an earthen pot baked hard in the sun.
One of the most striking examples of this nature, was his belief that the black colour of the negro is a disease, which depletion, properly exercised, might be capable of remedying a scheme not a whit more feasible, than that of the courtiers of La Reine Quinte, referred to by Rabelais, "who made blackamoors white, as fast as hops, by just rubbing their stomachs with the bottom of a pannier."
To begin with, he thought him too familiar, and never even answered him when the dwarf dared to address him. Following the fashion set by her Majesty, all the Court ladies wanted to have little blackamoors to follow them about, set off their white complexions, and hold up their cloaks or their trains.
Think, no rent, nor rates, nor taxes that is an inducement to swallow no to contend with, any number of blackamoors, isn't it? even if they settle on the tip of Billy-boy's nose. 'I could come to see you better there than out in a suburb, said Nuttie. 'But what do these rooms look out upon?
"Oh, if you like flies in your soup, as the man said to his guest, when he carefully replaced those entomological blackamoors in the tureen, after helping himself if you like flies in your soup, well and good buona notte." Ferrers certainly was right in his theory, that when we have known real adventures we grow less morbidly sentimental.
At any rate, I didn't wish to eat again just then. At the door the sedan-chair and the two little blackamoors were awaiting me. "We have orders to take you to the Zoo, sah," said Sambo. "All right, Sambo," said I. "I'm all ready. A little air will do me good." And we moved along.
To begin with, he thought him too familiar, and never even answered him when the dwarf dared to address him. Following the fashion set by her Majesty, all the Court ladies wanted to have little blackamoors to follow them about, set off their white complexions, and hold up their cloaks or their trains.
"`Where waves on waves in wild confusion leap' that's fine isn't it?" "Yes, sir," said Billy. "We're up an African river, and are going to lick a lot of blackamoors; you'll have a difficulty in bringing blackamoor into your lines, I've a notion." "Of course I should call them Arabs, their proper designation, when I get as far," replied Mr Mildmay.
Writing now of what his own eyes beheld, Lord Henry tells us how Sir John leapt to snatch a weapon from the armoured walls; how Sakr-el-Bahr barked out a single word in Arabic, and how at that word a half-dozen of his supple blackamoors sprang upon the knight like greyhounds upon a hare and bore him writhing to the ground.
If the world, with all its joys and all its miseries, presents to the controlling power merely its joyous side, what sympathy can one look for in one's deity? There was Paris and Notre Dame in the sunlight. But the Morgue at the back of Notre Dame in the shadow of its sunlit towers that was not visible to the eye of the casual god who drove his blackamoors along that entrancing roadway.
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