Simon Legree
Example Sentences
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Samuel Pinchard, the plantation owner, is a literary descendant of Simon Legree, but Jeffers has drawn him in the full height of psychological complexity.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2021
I’ll detail how Wiencek arrives at his bizarre proof of a Jefferson who suddenly becomes Simon Legree, but I should say up front that this book fails as a work of scholarship.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2012
Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree."
From Time Magazine Archive
Her job often required, she said, "the combined qualities of Solomon and Simon Legree."
From Time Magazine Archive
Men and women read it, talked about it, cried over the death of Little Eva and of Uncle Tom, shuddered at the cruelty of Simon Legree.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
