"Blackamoor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are mistaken in each other, most enlightened sir. But it is mere waste of soap to attempt to wash a blackamoor white. (He opened the door, and in stalked the Devil.) Here is a gentleman who will lay before you a document, which I hope will give the cause of my friend a ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
... necessary preliminary to such a union), says, "What have you to do with your likings and your preferences, child? Depend upon it, it is safest to begin with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle like a blackamoor before we were married; and yet, you know, my dear, what a good wife I made him." Such is my learned friend's argument, to a hair. But finding that this doctrine did not appear to go down with the House so glibly as he had expected my honorable ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... Marjanah (Morgiana) "the she coral-branch ;" and like this a name generally given to negroes. We have seen white applied to a blackamoor by way of metonomy and red is also connected with black skins by way of fun. A Persian verse says : "If a black wear red, e'en ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... was your Church before Luther?" Protestants answer, "Where were you this morning before you washed your face?" But, if Protestants can clean themselves into the likeness of Cyprian or Irenaeus, they must scrub very hard, and have well-nigh learned the art of washing the blackamoor white. ...
— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman
... Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There'll be beer to feth. I've never met with nothing but beer ath'll ever clean a comic blackamoor.' ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
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