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Usage examples of moses.

When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his master owned, all that was left of the sun was a five-inch-long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between two mountains on the left and one on the right.

Just before Moses stepped into the woods, the rain began, and as he walked on the rain became heavier.

Well into the forest the rain came in torrents through the trees and the mighty summer leaves and after a bit Moses stopped and held out his hands and collected water that he washed over his face.

His parents as a couple had never slept in the home he and Moses the slave had built, choosing to stay in whatever cabin was available down in the quarters.

Sleeping in a cabin beside Henry in the first weeks after the sale, Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind.

Robbins had been trying to teach him after he sold Moses to Henry that every man felt he had been snookered after buying or selling a slave.

Once, not long after Henry had purchased her for his bride, Loretta had spent weeks thinking Moses might make a good man for her, a tolerable match, but one morning she had awakened to hear him out somewhere screaming at someone or something.

Loretta turned from Moses and Priscilla now and stepped away from their door.

They shot animals for far less, Moses once thought after Henry brought her home.

Before Moses had reached the last cabin on his side of the lane, the one Alice, whom he called the Night Walker, shared with Delphie and her daughter Cassandra, the slaves were filling the lane.

Alice, the Night Walker, would be standing just inside her door when Moses opened it each morning, dressed and ready to work, as if she had been standing at the door waiting for him all night.

Beside Tessie that day going back down to the lane was Jamie, the son of Priscilla and Moses the overseer.

Once Moses was in the hole, William Robbins came out of the house followed by Dora, his daughter.

He knew only Moses and the men in his cabin, but had seen her from afar, limping here and there.

He knew that in order to slip away one night he had to be seen as reliable, but his work suffered with his sickness and Moses also took to calling him a lazy man.