Word: slaving
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...stands still, rapt and benumbed, in her chariot where she has been left when the King, quiting his, has walked into his palace on that fatal Purple Carpet, very symbol of mortals trampling on that which belongs to the gods only. "I can't stand here wrangling with a slave," says Klytemnestra, and goes back into the palace where she has more urgent work in hand...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One day seems like a lifetime in this grim novel about conditions in one of Stalin's slave labor camps...
...with a royal deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
...made her entrance down a marble staircase while small boys scattered flowers in her path. When she wanted to go sailing, Dom João built a sea-sized private lake, ordered a sailing ship from Portugal and had it hauled from Rio to Tijuco by horse and slave...
...Despite the fact that Article I, in determining a state's representation, declares that a slave should be counted as three-fifths...