Protagonist in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

Usage examples of sethe.

Eac we quaedon be mundbryce and be ham socnum, sethe hit ofer this do thaet he dolie ealles thaes the age, and sy on Cyninges dome hwaether he life age.

The thirty-eight dollars of life savings went to feed themselves with fancy food and decorate themselves with ribbon and dress goods, which Sethe cut and sewed like they were going somewhere in a hurry.

Stooping to shake the damper, or snapping sticks for kindlin, Sethe was licked, tasted, eaten by Beloved's eyes.

Sethe could recognize only seventy-five printed words (half of which appeared in the newspaper clipping), but she knew that the words she did not understand hadn't any more power than she had to explain.

Sethe was dishing up bread pudding, murmuring her hopes for it, apologizing in advance the way veteran cooks always do, when something in Beloved's face, some petlike adoration that took hold of her as she looked at Sethe, made Paul D speak.

Sethe didn't know if it was the voice, or Boston or velvet, but while the whitegirl talked, the baby slept.

However many times Baby denied it, Sethe knew the grief at 124 started when she jumped down off the wagon, her newborn tied to her chest in the underwear of a whitegirl looking for Boston.