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  • Fair enough, the horrendously exploitative and slavedriving rates remain, but, until the revolution, that's your free market for you.

    Job Offer of the Week Judy 2010

  • Thus our disappointment gives way to a feeling of intense mortification, and our soul involuntarily, but justly, we believe, cries out for retribution against the treacherous, slavedriving legislators, who have so basely and unpatriotically neglected the interests of their poor white constituents and bargained away the rights of posterity.

    The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

  • They put themselves at the head of the slavedriving interest throughout the world, just as Elizabeth put herself at the head of the Protestant interest; and wherever their favourite institution is in danger, are ready to stand by it as Elizabeth stood by the Dutch.

    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Detasseling corn was a better job, and that was outside in 100-degree heat with grizzled old slavedriving farmers yelling at us because we couldn't reach more than halfway up the corn stalks (around here, corn detasseling is done [mostly illegally] by little kids because they're the only people dumb enough to agree to do it).

    Pajiba 2010

  • Detasseling corn was a better job, and that was outside in 100-degree heat with grizzled old slavedriving farmers yelling at us because we couldn't reach more than halfway up the corn stalks (around here, corn detasseling is done [mostly illegally] by little kids because they're the only people dumb enough to agree to do it).

    Pajiba 2010

  • An Ugly project that might well succeed, but only because the slavedriving manager is perfectly willing to sacrifice team members in the effort.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • I would kick Bruno’s ass if Nommy’s slavedriving she-devil won’t unchain him from his desk.

    GOD PROTECTS TOPEKA FROM BRUNO 2008

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