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| “The young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place. He had invented a machine for the cleaning of the hemp, which, considering the education and circumstances of the inventor, displayed quite as much mechanical genius as Whitney’s cotton-gin.” |
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| “These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.” |
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| “A woman of a high class, both intellectually and morally. To that natural magnanimity and generosity of mind which one often marks as characteristic of the women of Kentucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results.” |
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| “a small quadroon boy, between four and five years of age…there was something in his appearance remarkably beautiful and engaging. His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes...” |
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| “A fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him” |
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| “He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world…” |
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| A pious man, an ideal patriarch and a Christian martyr |
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| “Her corncake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practiced compounders; and she would shake her fat sides with honest pride and merriment, as she would narrate the fruitless efforts that one and another of her compeers had made to attain to her elevation” |
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| “A bright boy of thirteen”, not only possesses a kind heart, but acts on his principles |
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| “one of the blackest of her race; her round, shining eyes, glittering as glass beads, moved with quick and restless glances…Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction.” |
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| “Her forehead was high, and her eyebrows marked with beautiful clearness. Her straight, well-formed nose, her finely-cut mouth, and the graceful contour of her head and neck, showed that she must once have been beautiful; but her face was deeply wrinkled with lines of pain” |
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| A vicious, barbaric, evil slave holder |
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| “the very picture of delight…a timid, blushing little woman, of about four feet in height, and with mild blue eyes, and a peach-blow complexion, and the gentlest, sweetest voice in the world…anything in the shape of cruelty would throw her into a passion, which was the more alarming and inexplicable in proportion to the general softness of her nature.” |
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| A man of influence, influenced by his wife. |
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| At first seems gruff, but we learn that he transforms - “in place of slave-catching [this man] betook himself to life in one of the new settlements, where his talents developed themselves more happily in trapping bears, wolves, and other inhabitants of the forest.” |
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| She “patronized good things”, “always made a point to be very pious on Sundays”, “She looked a graceful creature, and she felt very good and very elegant in deed.” |
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| “Her face was thin, and rather sharp in its outlines; the lips compressed, like those of a person who is in the habit of making up her mind indefinitely on all subjects; while the keen, dark eyes had a peculiarly searching, advised movement, and travelled over everything, as if they were looking for something to take care of. All her movements were sharp, decided, and energetic; and though she was never much of a talker, her words were remarkably direct, and to the purpose, when she did speak.” |
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| “She was one of those busy, tripling creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze, - nor was she one that, once seen, could be easily forgotten. Her form was the perfection of childish beauty…” |
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| “In childhood, he was remarkable for an extreme and marked sensitiveness of character, more akin to the softness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex. Time, however, overgrew this softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh it still lay at the core.” |
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| “Childless, and sorrowful for that reason, and not to be comforted” |
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| “He was twenty-five years old, college-bred, and had finished a post-college course in an eastern law school a couple years before. He was a homely, freckled, sandy-haired young fellow, with an intelligent blue eye that had frankness and comradeship in it and a covert twinkle of a pleasant sort. But for an unfortunate remark of his, he would no doubt have entered at once upon a successful career…” |
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| “From [her] manner of speech, a stranger would have expected her to be black, but she was not. Only one-sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show. She was of majestic form and stature, her attitudes were imposing and statuesque, and her gestures and movements distinguished by a noble and stately grace.” |
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| An example of the influence of nurture and society on a human being. This boy became selfish, spoiled and cowardly because of his upbringing. |
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| An example of the influence of nurture and society on a human being. This boy became selfish, spoiled and cowardly because of his upbringing. |
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| An example of the influence of nurture and society on a human being. This boy became selfish, spoiled and cowardly because of his upbringing. |
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| Well liked by the town they come to. Are good looking and smooth talking, but one has a scandalous past. |
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| The father of Roxy’s son, Chambers. |
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| “Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness, and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class…” |
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| A charming and flashy salesman with a strong appetite for romance. |
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| A wealthy and important man who gets tired of convention and in seeking out adventure and a new life becomes ruined. |
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| Described as animal-like, is very upset when her husband leaves her at home. |
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| Described as animal-like, is very upset when her husband leaves her at home. |
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| Influences Carrie by her wealth. She is the catalyst for Carrie’s dissatisfaction with Hurstwood’s income. |
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| “Tall, lean, loosely and feebly put together, he had an ugly, sickly, witty, charming face, furnished, but by no means decorated, with a straggling moustache and whisker.” |
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| Represents the aristocracy of the old world. “a noticeably handsome face, fresh coloured, fair and frank, with firm, straight features, a lively grey eye and the rich adornment of a chestnut beard. This person had a certain fortunate, brilliant exceptional look – the air of a happy temperament fertilized by a high civilization – which would have made almost any observer envy him at a venture.” |
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| “He had a narrow, clean-shaven face, with features evenly distributed and an expression of placid acuteness…It seemed to tell that he had been successful in life, yet it seemed to tell also that his success had not been exclusive and invidious, but had had much of the inoffensiveness of failure.” |
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| “a young person of many theories”, she misperceives the world because of her ideals. |
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| “a childish martyr decked out for sacrifice” she is not strong enough to defy her father |
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| An unromantic, independent, older woman who brings Isabel with her on her travels. |
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| He has a “hardness of presence” that deters Isabel from his romantic endeavors. |
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| An older woman who is an example of one who believes that the external self, or the shell tells all about a person. |
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| A miniature of Gilbert Osmand, this man is an American art collector who falls into a forbidden love. |
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| A gossipy woman who reveals a truth to Isabel. |
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| Said to take himself too seriously, this man is selfish and narrow and is not a man of importance. |
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| An independent woman who is a symbol of American democracy. |
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