nig
Example Sentences
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Ruth rode to the cabin one morning, to find her sitting on the edge of the porch, hugging Nig tightly and whispering to him.
From The Range Boss by Schoonover, Frank Earle
His first glance was for Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes.
From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
Rocking back and forth in a paroxysm of impotent passion, she spoke to the dog: “I can’t kill him now, Nig, he’s goin’ to marry her!
From The Range Boss by Schoonover, Frank Earle
Mary evidently relished these sharp attacks, and saw a fair prospect of lowering Nig where, according to her views, she belonged.
From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.
Nig was looking further than the present, and congratulating herself upon some days of peace, for Mary never lost opportunity of informing her mother of Nig's delinquencies, were she otherwise ignorant.
From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.
