True, blacks put on their masters' demanded Sambo charade. True, some charaders became their Sambo act. […] But many slaves partially repelled their masters' psychological invasion.
The sections were then washed in running water and counterdyed with eosin for 15 minutes.
He [Charlemagne] was very forward in succoring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them.
They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
