All 18 Uses of
Sappho
in
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Sappho Brown rode through Creole Place and saw the mulattoes hanging lanterns and crepe paper up in the trees.†
Chpt 3 *
- Now Sappho and Claudee white as any white man in this parish, but they knowed good and God well they didn't have no business going there messing round with them Creoles.†
Chpt 3
- Both Sappho and Claudee's daddy was white, but not Creole white.†
Chpt 3
- But telling this to Sappho and Claudee was like talking to a block of wood.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said before he could say we don't know nobody here, we just stumbled in, we don't mean no harm, and we don't mind leaving —Claudee said: "Jacques.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said he started to tell Claudee to please shut his mouth and let's get out of here while they was still able to, but, no, now he know Jean.†
Chpt 3
- Jean went up to Sappho and looked at him a while, then he went up to Claudee.†
Chpt 3
- He looked at Claudee longer, and everybody, even Sappho, was getting the feeling that maybe he did know Claudee.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said he was running before the tall mulatto mentioned the plow lines, he just started running faster when he heard it.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said he was already passing Joe Sipp horse when Claudee hollered at him to untie the horse.†
Chpt 3
- Behind them the mulattoes had got on their own horses, and Sappho and Claudee could hear them hollering and shooting pistols in the air.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said even before Claudee said field he was already heading that way, he just picked up more speed now because he knowed Claudee was following him.†
Chpt 3
- Sappho said he thought to himself: "Just don't lose time and expect company, brother.†
Chpt 3
- They untied the horse Sappho and Claudee had left and headed him toward Samson.†
Chpt 3
- The horse got here before Sappho and Claudee did.†
Chpt 3
- She told me that some of her own people was in this, and she knowed they would have lynched Sappho and Claudee if they had caught them.†
Chpt 3
- Lena Washington was his aunt, his great aunt, his mama's daddy sister; and it was Lena who sent Sappho up the quarters to get me because it wasn't time to go get Selina from Morgan.†
Chpt 4
- Sappho and them right over there; Claudee and them little farther down.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)