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Under the caption "Rantings from the bunker," the editorial board published correspondence from dissident members charging the leadership with "Bolshevik jargon I prefer Hitler as 'comrade' to any black power hottentot who wants to shake my hand," one letter stated, "because Hitler is of my people, my culture, and my ideological kindred," while wondering what weird kind of National Socialism the leaders had developed in calling Farrakhan a comrade.— Latest Articles
In short, it is lost labour to civilize him, for sooner or later he will _hottentot_ again.— Tales and Novels — Volume 08
A small old religious ruin, and a fine old garden planted by the religious, rooted out and destroyed by an English hottentot, a _maitre d'hotel_ of the duke's, a Mr. Cole -- climate and soil of Berwickshire, and even— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
The hottentot.— U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
_hottentot again, whatever pains may be taken to civilize him; a man of ice_, to be taken as a lover from _pure charity_, or _pure curiosity_, or the pure _besoin d'aimer_.— Tales and Novels — Volume 08

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