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Each living room is furnished with a scroll-arm button-tufted couch, butterscotch leather planter's chairs, and a savannah of Persian carpet.

Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010

"What sets rum apart from other spirits is that it likes to be mixed with itself," says mixologist Dale DeGroff, whose planter's punch includes light and dark rums and is "rosied up" with grenadine.

Rum’s Punch 2010

By the 1600s, the per capita intake of Barbados was 10 gallons, much of it (by the ruling classes, at least) in the form of planter's punch, in which individual planters would offset rum's original oiliness by mixing it with cane syrup, citrus juice, and a touch of island spice.

Rum’s Punch 2010

This goes for many white Americans like myself, who are willing to participate in the planter's mistake, the slave ship mistake, and all the others that have followed to make up for the original theft of a people from its land.

Donna Schaper: God Is Still Spanking... Lou Dobbs? Sargeant Crowley? 2009

Apparently dazzled by visions of a planter's life on a great estate, but undeterred by his lack of capital, experience, and training, Gwinnett borrowed £3,000 to buy a thirty-six square mile tract of land including St. Catherine's Island, off the coast of Georgia in 1766.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

Leslie Crosbie, a planter's wife in Malaya, shoots Geoff Hammond, another English expatriate, claiming he attempted to rape her.

The Sopranos in Santa Fe 2009

The Caraguin chronicles the failed love affair between Amy, a British planter's daughter, and Guzman, a Venezuelan revolutionary. close window

Notes on 'London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic' 2006

This illustration shows white children playing with a black child, and represents the old Negro servants of the planter's family among his children.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

In Book II Matthiessen relates the consequences of the Watson murder, especially its effects on the planter's acknowledged and unacknowledged sons.

An Epic of the Everglades Dirda, Michael 2008

A young newlywed couple from Bangalore I met last night -- sitting on the same planter's chaises where I later found the banker -- held hands and cuddled while they explained, she in girlish modest chuckles, he in strong masculine assertions (in fact, he did most of the speaking for the couple, she gazing at him in awe), that the reason marriages work in India is that there is not the problem of choice.

Karin Badt: Clips from India: Raheem Residency Hotel (vi) 2008