Sample Sentences for
chattel
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    So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens.  (source)
    chattels = owned property
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    Before now they didn't kill you because you was somebody chattel.  (source)
    chattel = property
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    A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel.†  (source)
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    Then, after they siphoned off my money, my "feminist" parents let Nick bundle me off to Missouri like I was some piece of chattel, some mail-order bride, some property exchange.†  (source)
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    Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!†  (source)
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    As far as everyone was concerned, as Moody's wife I was his chattel.†  (source)
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    On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.†  (source)
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    "Women are not chattel, to be traded off like cattle or hogs!" she'd thundered out.†  (source)
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    The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.†  (source)
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    Chattel slaves had once trod those boards bearing food and drink on silver trays.†  (source)
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    The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon his chattels.†  (source)
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    My grandmother's chattel, source of my own salvation.†  (source)
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    Peggotty and myself will constantly keep a double look-out together, on our goods and chattels.†  (source)
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