Subject of a Foster song in 1852

Usage examples of massa.

I does what Massa Steven says to do till the next Massa comes to Coeur de Terre.

The driver of the cart, Jonson, an old black man who had been a slave, talked of The Forks of Cypress and how famous it once had been, and how sad it was that Massa Jackson was dead.

Queen sensed his antagonism, and told him that she had been a slave at The Forks, and had come to pay her last respects to her old Massa.

The well-being of the plantation was critical to all of them, because if it was a good harvest they all ate well, and, for the slaves, their Massas might be in better tempers, and if it was a bad harvest, everyone suffered.

Enderby said, catching with no pleasure an image of elephant hided men called Cudge whining under Simon Legree whips in the cottonfields, what time old massa in the parlour read with mild interest a great record of the conversation of the English Enlightenment.

At this moment stepped forth the premier violin, master of the ceremonies and ballet-master, Massa Johnson, really a very smart man, who gave lessons in dancing to all the "'Badian ladies.

The delegation partook of luncheon at the conclusion of which the dusky potentate, in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias Praisegod Barebones, tendered his best thanks to Massa Walkup and emphasised the cordial relations existing between Abeakuta and the British empire, stating that he treasured as one of his dearest possessions an illuminated bible, the volume of the word of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the white chief woman, the great squaw Victoria, with a personal dedication from the august hand of the Royal Donor.

Intanto non era un'unica massa di terra, ma era costituita da cento corpi diversi uniti fra loro da archi di roccia, un vasto arcipelago che somigliava a una grande cattedrale galleggiante, con ponti a fare da contrafforti, torri sempre più alte via via che si avvicinavano al centro dell'isola dalla quale si alzavano a incontrare il cielo dense colonne di fumo.

Se trascuriamo il fattore accrescimento, la dura­ta di un buco nero è 10- 19 M3 secondi, dove M è la massa in chilogrammi.

Massa Stubb say dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor!

I don' done nuthin' Massa Tom -- but she git Hector to whup me, en oh I's hurtin', hurtin' suthin' awful, Massa.

There is an immense garden of oranges and lemons at the village of Massa, through which travelers are shown by a surly fellow, who keeps watch of his trees, and has a bulldog lurking about for the unwary.

Frammenti di osso spuntavano come cocci di stoviglie dalla massa in­forme della sua mente e dei suoi sensi.

Massa Miles call mah gran’pappy in an’ say, ‘Bob, yo’all is free an’ I’se a ruinated man.

Massa Miles call mah gran'pappy in an' say, 'Bob, yo'all is free an' I'se a ruinated man.