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1  The white children could tell their ages.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  They were of all ages, though mostly men and women.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  There were those younger, those older, and those of the same age.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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6  I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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7  The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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8  Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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10  Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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12  I have seen Colonel Lloyd make old Barney, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, uncover his bald head, kneel down upon the cold, damp ground, and receive upon his naked and toil-worn shoulders more than thirty lashes at the time.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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13  There must be no halting; every one must be at his or her post; and woe betides them who hear not this morning summons to the field; for if they are not awakened by the sense of hearing, they are by the sense of feeling: no age nor sex finds any favor.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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14  The wife of Mr. Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live, murdered my wife's cousin, a young girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick, so that the poor girl expired in a few hours afterward.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV