1 She had intended that the negroes should do the field work, while she and the convalescent girls attended to the house, but here she was confronted with a caste feeling even stronger than her own.
2 Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
3 She wished that she could work in the mill; that she did not belong to the caste of professional-man's-wife.
4 They were a special caste, neither above nor below the Haydocks, but apart, artists and adventurers.
5 In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
6 With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
7 They who live without knew not nor dreamed of that full power within, that mighty inspiration which the dull gauze of caste decreed that most men should not know.
8 While I was in charge of the Indian boys at Hampton, I had one or two experiences which illustrate the curious workings of caste in America.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 9 He spared neither rank nor caste.
10 The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI... 11 This reasoning was clear and instantaneous; so that without giving time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
12 The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 13 The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was radiant.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 14 He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 15 The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS