Philippine island

Usage examples of negros.

All the hangers-on of the Rebel camp--clerks, teamsters, employer, negros, hundreds of white and colored women, in all forming a motley crowd of between one and two thousand, were gathered together in a group between the end of the rifle pits and the Star Fort.

Long lines of earthworks were being constructed, gangs of negros were felling trees, building forts and batteries, making abatis, and toiling with numbers of huge guns which were being moved out and placed in position.

Es verdad que yo padecí cautiverio en el alcázar de Yakub el Doliente, a raíz de la conspiración que fraguó mi hermano Ibrahim, con el fementido y vano socorro de los caudillos negros del Kordofán, que lo denunciaron.

Los bordes de las heridas eran negros y emanaban un leve hedor putrefacto.

En esta noche de sus ojos mortales, a la que ahora descendía, lo aguardaban también el amor y el riesgo, Ares y Afrodita, porque ya adivinaba (porque ya lo cercaba) un rumor de gloria y de hexámetros, un rumor de hombres que defienden un templo que los dioses no salvarán y de bajeles negros que buscan por el mar una isla querida, el rumor de las Odiseas e Ilíadas que era su destino cantar y dejar resonando cóncavamente en la memoria humana.

Su atención se desvió de Conan y, en ese breve instante, la figura blanca y esbelta de una muchacha desnuda con brillantes ojos oscuros y un torrente de rizos negros cruzó rápidamente el salón desde las sombras de una columna situada a un lado del desvalido cimmerio.

La chica gemía en una especie de delirio y se percibía una invisible angustia en sus brillantes ojos negros.

The whole country was carefully policed by Provost Marshals to bring out those who were shirking military duty, or had deserted their colors, and to check any movement by the negros.

I have seen men brought in from the Stockade in a dying condition, begrimed from head to foot with their own excrements, and so black from smoke and filth that they, resembled negros rather than white men.

While Indian meal, even when prepared with the husk, is one of the most wholesome and nutritious forms of food, as has been already shown by the health and rapid increase of the Southern population, and especially of the negros, previous to the present war, and by the strength, endurance and activity of the Confederate soldiers, who were throughout the war confined to a great extent to unbolted corn- meal.

We occasionally came across negros, of whom we cautiously inquired as to the route and towns, and by the assistance of our map and the stars, got along very well indeed, until we came to the Suwanee River.