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1  He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  I worked that day with a pleasure I had never before experienced.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
5  I look back to those Sundays with an amount of pleasure not to be expressed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  They used to take great pleasure in coming there to put up; for while he starved us, he stuffed them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  But I must deprive myself of this pleasure, and the curious of the gratification which such a statement would afford.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  It would afford me great pleasure indeed, as well as materially add to the interest of my narrative, were I at liberty to gratify a curiosity, which I know exists in the minds of many, by an accurate statement of all the facts pertaining to my most fortunate escape.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI