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Aphra Behn

Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

  • rcsimpsonhas quoted7 years ago
    that he was the only man, of all the whites, that ever he heard speak truth.
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    monster! that hast murdered thy wife."
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    he found his strength so decayed that he swayed to and fro, like boughs assailed by contrary winds;
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    severing her yet smiling face
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    for wives have a respect for their husbands equal to what any other people pay a deity
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    joy she should die by so noble a hand
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    on her knees, besought him not to leave her a prey to his enemies.
  • rcsimpsonhas quoted7 years ago
    first of killing her, and then his enemies, and next himself,
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    drink with Christians, without his weapon of defense in his hand;
  • rcsimpsonhas quoted7 years ago
    But Caesar told him there was no faith in the white men, or the gods they adored; who instructed them in principles so false that honest men could not live amongst them;
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