Hottentot

Hottentots Holland was the name given to the Somerset West area by the earliest white settlers, and "hottentot" was the term used for the ❋ Unknown (2007)

In Maxine's book your probably half a step away from having a fling with a married west african hottentot and/or moving to Kiribati. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

They too loved the hottentot, everyone loves the circus. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

Templetombmount joyntstone, (let him pass, pleasegood-jesusalem, in a bundle of straw, he was balbettised after hay — making) you squandered among underlings the overload of your extravagance and made a hottentot of dulpeners crawsick with your crumbs? ❋ Unknown (2006)

At the small pub, Cementen, British Kat Francois and Linton Kwesi-Johnson had just performed on stage when Hatlehol came on to introduce the Norwegian poet Kjell Vindtorn and used the word ‘hottentotskjørt’ which means ‘hottentot skirt.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

A limited number of snoek fishers will also be able to apply for subsistence permits which will enable them to legally sell their daily bag limit of 10 snoek or 10 hottentot. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Permits would also be issued to snoek and hottentot fishermen who wished to sell their daily bag of 10 fish each, Jordan said in ❋ Unknown (1998)

Permits will also be issued to snoek and hottentot fishers who wish to sell their daily bag of 10 fish per person. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Now, when I came to administer the law, it didn't matter whether the person appearing before me was a Democrat or a hottentot. ❋ Unknown (1975)

A RECENT review puts the question thus: "Although women make the amenities of life, and men would soon 'hottentot,' as Miss Edgeworth has it, if left to themselves, why is it that women's heroes are almost invariably prigs or cads of the first water?" ❋ Unknown (1906)

In short, it is lost labour to civilize him, for sooner or later he will _hottentot_ again. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

A small old religious ruin, and a fine old garden planted by the religious, rooted out and destroyed by an English hottentot, a _maitre d'hotel_ of the duke's, a Mr. Cole -- climate and soil of Berwickshire, and even ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Eating cob, yellowtail and silver fish should be restricted to four meals a month, while white stumpnose and hottentot sea bream should not be eaten more than eight to 12 times a month. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Under the caption "Rantings from the bunker," the editorial board published correspondence from dissident members charging the leadership with "Bolshevik jargon I prefer Hitler as 'comrade' to any black power hottentot who wants to shake my hand," one letter stated, "because Hitler is of my people, my culture, and my ideological kindred," while wondering what weird kind of National Socialism the leaders had developed in calling Farrakhan a comrade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_hottentot again, whatever pains may be taken to civilize him; a man of ice_, to be taken as a lover from _pure charity_, or _pure curiosity_, or the pure _besoin d'aimer_. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

One missionary relates that, among his hottentot catechumens, there was one who never could learn how to make the sign of the Cross, nor the answers of the catechism, nor any prayer except these words of the Pater Nester: "Our Father, give us this day our daily bread. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)