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"When a man gets a streak of luck,--nigger-luck,--he don't get tired.— The Short-story
Worked like a nigger--from two to eight never stopped bandaging.— The Dark Forest
I was angry at being called a nigger, and replied, "You don't know nothing, yourself, about it, and you expect a poor ignorant girl to know more than you do yourself; if you had any feeling you would get somebody to teach me, and then I'd do well enough She then gave me a wrapper to do up, and told me if I ruined that as I did the other clothes, she would whip me severely.— From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
Then Mr. Pawkins amused himself asking Tryphosa if it was Maguffin or Timotheus was her young man, giving as his private opinion that the nigger was the smarter man of the two.— Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
One thing was made manifest to me then, and confirmed later on, viz., the nigger is a game fellow; give him a little excitement, and he is full of "devil"--it's the doing of deeds in cold blood that finds him out.— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front

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