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  • Under the placage system, it was acceptable for a white man to take a colored mistress - who was known as a placee - when she was as young as 12.

    Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010

  • This dog is nowhere close to being a staunch conservative, but I can smell something stinking up the placee reeeeeaaaaal good.

    Sound Politics: The Politics of the Gadfly 2006

  • Then me makee walkee all alonk you, takee you back same placee you comee from.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • "Comee here," he muttered, "my placee, all full up and no other placee b'long open."

    The Golden Scorpion Sax Rohmer 1921

  • The spiritual and moral possibilities of the future lay in the relative placee which shall be accorded to woman in the coming time.

    untitled 1869

  • The spiritual and moral possibilities of the future lay in the relative placee which shall be accorded to woman in the coming time.

    The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No V. 1869

  • Dans un tourbillon de poussiere qu'eleve un vent impetueux, quelque confus qu'il paraisse a nos yeux; dans la plus affreuse tempete excitee par des vents opposes qui soulevent les flots, -- il n'y a pas une seule molecule de poussiere ou d'eau qui soit placee au HASARD, qui n'ait sa cause suffisante pour occuper le lieu ou elle se trouve, et qui n'agisse rigoureusement de la maniere dont ella doit agir.

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • Dans un tourbillon de poussiere qu'eleve un vent impetueux, quelque confus qu'il paraisse a nos yeux; dans la plus affreuse tempete excitee par des vents opposes qui soulevent les flots, -- il n'y a pas une seule molecule de poussiere ou d'eau qui soit placee au HASARD, qui n'ait sa cause suffisante pour occuper le lieu ou elle se trouve, et qui n'agisse rigoureusement de la maniere dont ella doit agir.

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • In the gypsy swap, the Director loaned 4,150,290 shares to the placee, and an equal number of shares were pledged to the Director as security.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • One of Genco's Directors purchased 1,000,000 units in the second tranche of the placement and completed a gypsy swap in connection with the placement of 4,150,290 units to another placee.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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