"Uncle Tom's Cabin" meanie

Usage examples of legree.

At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.

Having died insolvent, it had been purchased, at a bargain, by Legree, who used it, as he did everything else, merely as an implement for money-making.

As they stood there now by Legree, they seemed an apt illustration of the fact that brutal men are lower even than animals.

As she delivered it, Legree looked in her eyes with a sneering yet inquiring glance.

Tom had a remarkably smooth, soft voice, and a habitually respectful manner, that had given Legree an idea that he would be cowardly, and easily subdued.

Born of a hard-tempered sire, on whom that gentle woman had wasted a world of unvalued love, Legree had followed in the steps of his father.

The next Legree heard of his mother was, when, one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand.

While this conversation was passing in the chamber, Legree, overcome with his carouse, had sunk to sleep in the room below.

In the height of the season, Legree did not hesitate to press all his hands through, Sundays and week-days alike.

This was spoken as Legree was getting on his horse, to go to the neighboring town.

The garret of the house that Legree occupied, like most other garrets, was a great, desolate space, dusty, hung with cobwebs, and littered with cast-off lumber.

Once, when Legree chanced to overhear something of this kind, he flew into a violent passion, and swore that the next one that told stories about that garret should have an opportunity of knowing what was there, for he would chain them up there for a week.

It had suddenly occurred to Cassy to make use of the superstitious excitability, which was so great in Legree, for the purpose of her liberation, and that of her fellow-sufferer.

One day, without consulting Legree, she suddenly took it upon her, with some considerable ostentation, to change all the furniture and appurtenances of the room to one at some considerable distance.

The under-servants, who were called on to effect this movement, were running and bustling about with great zeal and confusion, when Legree returned from a ride.