All 50 Uses of
garner
in
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- The Garners, it seemed to her, ran a special kind of slavery, treating them like paid labor, listening to what they said, teaching what they wanted known.†
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- Mr. Garner was dead and his wife had a lump in her neck the size of a sweet potato and unable to speak to anyone.†
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- Mrs. Garner, crying like a baby, had sold his brother to pay off the debts that surfaced the minute she was widowed.†
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- She was a timely present for Mrs. Garner who had lost Baby Suggs to her husband's high principles.†
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- The restraint they had exercised possible only because they were Sweet Home men—the ones Mr. Garner bragged about while other farmers shook their heads in warning at the phrase.†
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- Beg to differ, Garner.†
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- Garner's smile was wide.†
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- It was the reaction Garner loved and waited for.†
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- Then a fierce argument, sometimes a fight, and Garner came home bruised and pleased, having demonstrated one more time what a real Kentuckian was: one tough enough and smart enough to make and call his own niggers men.†
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- And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man.†
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- And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man.†
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- And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man.†
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- Good morning, Mr. D. Garner, baby.†
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- Paul D Garner.†
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- Why don't you spend the night, Mr. Garner?†
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- I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D Garner: it cost too much!†
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- I told Mrs. Garner on em.†
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- Halle and the Pauls spent the whole day covering Sixo's fatigue from Mr. Garner.†
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- She who had never had one but this one; she who left a dirt floor to come to this one; she who had to bring a fistful of salsify into Mrs. Garner's kitchen every day just to be able to work in it, feel like some part of it was hers, because she wanted to love the work she did, to take the ugly out of it, and the only way she could feel at home on Sweet Home was if she picked some pretty growing thing and took it with her.†
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- A few yellow flowers on the table, some myrtle tied around the handle of the flatiron holding the door open for a breeze calmed her, and when Mrs. Garner and she sat down to sort bristle, or make ink, she felt fine.†
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- She and Mrs. Garner were the only women there, so she decided to ask her.†
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- Halle and me want to be married, Mrs. Garner.†
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- He talked to Mr. Garner about it.†
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- Mrs. Garner put down her cooking spoon.†
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- And there on top of a mattress on top of the dirt floor of the cabin they coupled for the third time, the first two having been in the tiny cornfield Mr. Garner kept because it was a crop animals could use as well as humans.†
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- Plucked from the broken stalks that Mr. Garner could not doubt was the fault of the raccoon.†
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- That made her feel good that her husband's sister's husband had book learning and was willing to come farm Sweet Home after Mr. Garner passed.†
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- Not strong as Mr. Garner but smart enough.†
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- I never saw a wedding, but I saw Mrs. Garner's wedding gown in the press, and heard her go on about what it was like.†
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- Anyhow, Mrs. Garner must have seen me in it.†
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- Next day Mrs. Garner crooked her finger at me and took me upstairs to her bedroom.†
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- Allowed, encouraged to correct Garner, even defy him.†
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- No. In their relationship with Garner was true metal: they were believed and trusted, but most of all they were listened to.†
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- Well, ah, this is not the, a man can't, see, but aw listen here, it ain't that, it really ain't, Ole Garner, what I mean is, it ain't a weak —ness, the kind of weakness I can fight 'cause 'cause something is happening to me, that girl is doing it, I know you think I never liked her nohow, but she is doing it to me.†
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- Who had not even escaped slavery—had, in fact, been bought out of it by a doting son and driven to the Ohio River in a wagon—free papers folded between her breasts (driven by the very man who had been her master, who also paid her resettlement fee—name of Garner), and rented a house with two floors and a well from the Bodwins— the white brother and sister who gave Stamp Paid, Ella and John clothes, goods and gear for runaways because they hated slavery worse than they hated slaves.†
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- When she hurt her hip in Carolina she was a real bargain (costing less than Halle, who was ten then) for Mr. Garner, who took them both to Kentucky to a farm he called Sweet Home.†
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- Lillian Garner called her Jenny for some reason but she never pushed, hit or called her mean names.†
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- Mr. Garner, Mrs. Garner, herself, Halle, and four boys, over half named Paul, made up the entire population.†
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- Mr. Garner, Mrs. Garner, herself, Halle, and four boys, over half named Paul, made up the entire population.†
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- Mrs. Garner hummed when she worked; Mr. Garner acted like the world was a toy he was supposed to have fun with.†
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- Mrs. Garner hummed when she worked; Mr. Garner acted like the world was a toy he was supposed to have fun with.†
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- Garner's boys, including Halle, did all of that—which was a blessing since she could not have managed it anyway.†
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- What she did was stand beside the humming Lillian Garner while the two of them cooked, preserved, washed, ironed, made candles, clothes, soap and cider; fed chickens, pigs, dogs and geese; milked cows, churned butter, rendered fat, laid fires.... Nothing to it.†
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- Only Halle, who had watched her movements closely for the last four years, knew that to get in and out of bed she had to lift her thigh with both hands, which was why he spoke to Mr. Garner about buying her out of there so she could sit down for a change.†
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- In Lillian Garner's house, exempted from the field work that broke her hip and the exhaustion that drugged her mind; in Lillian Garner's house where nobody knocked her down (or up), she listened to the whitewoman humming at her work; watched her face light up when Mr. Garner came in and thought, It's better here, but I'm not.†
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- In Lillian Garner's house, exempted from the field work that broke her hip and the exhaustion that drugged her mind; in Lillian Garner's house where nobody knocked her down (or up), she listened to the whitewoman humming at her work; watched her face light up when Mr. Garner came in and thought, It's better here, but I'm not.†
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- In Lillian Garner's house, exempted from the field work that broke her hip and the exhaustion that drugged her mind; in Lillian Garner's house where nobody knocked her down (or up), she listened to the whitewoman humming at her work; watched her face light up when Mr. Garner came in and thought, It's better here, but I'm not.†
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- When Mr. Garner agreed to the arrangements with Halle, and when Halle looked like it meant more to him that she go free than anything in the world, she let herself be taken 'cross the river.†
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- Mr. Garner looked over his shoulder at her with wide brown eyes and smiled himself.†
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- Mr. Garner laughed.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(garner) acquire by one's efforts
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Garner is used with various connotations. It may imply gathering information, something physical, or reputation. Historically, it was often used to reference placing grain into storage or the storehouse for the grain.