Sample Sentences forantebellum era (auto-selected)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the antebellum South.antebellum = U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
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The back of the house had the look of an antebellum mansion.† (source)
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The gravel road itself wound its way between antebellum farms, and she knew that for some of the farmers, life hadn't changed since before their grandparents were born.† (source)
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Conversely, when I hear black "leaders" talking about "Jewish slave owners" I feel angry and disgusted, knowing that they're inflaming people with lies and twisted history, as if all seven of the Jewish slave owners in the antebellum South, or however few there were, are responsible for the problems of African-Americans now.† (source)
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She is gliding down the antebellum tree-lined lanes of White Columns, one microplantation after another, still coasting on the residual kinetic energy boost that originated in the fuel in Studley the Teenager's gas tank.† (source)
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The antebellum period, one of my favorites.† (source)
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It was a place of hushed, fragrant gardens, silent streets, and large antebellum houses.† (source)
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The bridge table is set up in Hilly's antebellum-style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains.† (source)
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Then we pulled up to a perfectly preserved antebellum mansion, surrounded by trees that had been planted by slaves.† (source)
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The antebellum propaganda war between North and South had created in southern minds an image of the hated Yankees as an amalgam of money-grubbing mudsill Black Republican abolitionist Goths and Vandals.† (source)
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As long as the girls are uneducated, low-caste peasants like Meena, society will look the other way—just as many antebellum Americans turned away from the horrors of slavery because the people being lashed looked different from them.† (source)
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His snarling insult of the night before, and his general mistreatment of Sophie, had trespassed on my dreams all night in various allusive masks and guises, and now to awake to behold the same midcentury urban face intoning these hokey antebellum lyrics was simply more than I could tolerate.† (source)
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If you took a left, toward my house, you'd hit River, where all the restored antebellum houses lined the Santee.† (source)
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So Bubba and Kitty Offenhaus could only be found in their big new house, a rare combination of modern and classic, constructed largely of tinted glass between antebellum Greek columns.† (source)
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Chance wayne was once barman here; Stuff moves with an indolent male grace that he may have unconsciously remembered admiring in Chance, Boss Finley's mistress, Miss Lucy, enters the cocktail lounge dressed in a ball gown elaborately ruffled and very bouffant like an antebellum Southern belle's.† (source)
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One of the antebellum houses that survived was the home of William Faulkner, the legendary writer.† (source)
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