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Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question choose

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[UK] T. Carlyle Discourse on the Nigger Question 5: We have a few black persons rendered extremely ‘free’ indeed. Sitting yonder with their beautiful muzzles up to the ears in pumpkins.
at muzzle, n.1
[UK] T. Carlyle Discourse on the Nigger Question 25: We have thirty thousand distressed needlewomen, – the most of whom cannot sew a reasonable stitch; for they are in fact, Mutinous Serving-maids [...] and at last are on the street, with five hungry senses.
at needle woman (n.) under needle, n.
[UK] T. Carlyle Discourse on the Nigger Question 14: You can make a handsome glossy thing of Quashee, when the soul is not killed in him.
at quashie, n.
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