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Initially, W.W. Norton editor, Kathryn Talalay's griping, The Life of Philippa Schuyler, Composition in Black and White, might be expected to belie the mulatto's traditionally accursed lot.
Michael Henry Adams: Barack Hussein Obama: Born To Be Hurt? 2009
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Before this had been done, however, Mick Donovan received and repulsed the mulatto's first onslaught in a highly satisfactory manner for our side.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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This movement was ominous of evil, and all the mulatto's fears were confirmed, when, as they passed the mouth of the little stream, he saw one of them rise in the boat and point it out.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
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The mulatto's blows produced no serious effect upon the heads of the two villains, and, recovering from the surprise and shock the act had occasioned, they lost not a moment in pursuing their assailant.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
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"Arrah, me darlint, I see it all!" and Pat shook his sides with laughter at the idea of the mulatto's "travelling-carriage," as he styled it.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
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Fortunately for the poor beggar, his head went plump into one of the baskets of fruit, squashing its contents together into the semblance of jam, which probably saved the mulatto's life; for, had he fallen headlong on the stone jetty, his cranium would most likely have resembled the bananas and ripe melons in the black lady's basket that he had spoilt, and his neck, as likely as not, broken.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Accra Prout, who stood a head taller than any other of the men clustered round him, caught sight of the colonel as the latter cast his eyes downwards, rising from his seat and coming to the side of the skipper; and the mulatto's eyes grew as large as saucers, while his eyeballs rolled in delight and his wide mouth extended itself from ear to ear.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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Whatever mollifying effect the sight of the silver coin might have produced on the mulatto's mind was entirely swamped by Mick's unfortunate quotation from his paternal archives.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Stow that, you ugly black devil!" interposed one of our men, fetching the mulatto's partisan a crack on the shins with the cutter's boathook, which he held in his hand, he being bowman and left in charge of the boat.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Accordingly, I kept my canoemen on the schooner by an abundant supply of "bitters," and at midnight landed half a dozen, who proceeded to the mulatto's cabin, where he was seized _sans ceremonie_.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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