Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who owns or manages land devoted to the cultivation of the sugar-cane.
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Examples
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While he vaguely wished that its archaic condition could be preserved and prayed that the islands would escape “the frantic barbarism of the sugar-planter,” he had seen enough to conclude that the old ways would soon disappear.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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While he vaguely wished that its archaic condition could be preserved and prayed that the islands would escape “the frantic barbarism of the sugar-planter,” he had seen enough to conclude that the old ways would soon disappear.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Sachary Mellasys was, as I was well aware, the great sugar-planter of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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The sugar-planter here, however, labours under the same disadvantage, as to import-duty in England, as his brother planter of
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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John 'was subsequently sold to a Louisiana sugar-planter, a fate only less terrible to a negro than his exportation to Texas.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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To marry the daughter of the great sugar-planter of Louisiana I would have taken medicines far more unpalatable and assafoetidesque than any thus far offered.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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There was the English sugar-planter from the Tawi-Tawi group, who never lost sight of the ranking officer, who dressed in flannels, changed his clothes three times a day, and who expressed his only ideas to me by virtue of a confidential wink.
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Josephine, daughter of M. Joseph Gaspard Tascher de la Pagerie, sugar-planter at M.rtinique, and friend of the M.rquis de Beauharnais, whose son Alexandre was fated to marry her when she was but sixteen years of age.
The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892
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T.T. Allain having informed me of his intention to visit Washington, and as a sugar-planter interested in the reparation and maintenance of the levees in this State, and as a Representative of the colored people of this State, it gives me pleasure to indorse and recommend his mission as one of much importance.
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For, in the first place, he was a West Indian by birth, being the son of a Trinidad sugar-planter, and he consequently spoke Creole
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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