He was asked to be the overseer of the project. From LearnThat.org.
When they were fairly out of sight of the troopers, she called the overseer to the side of the coach. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
And their bailiff, a serf, or some overseer from the German natives, gets the peasant under his thumb again. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I] Reference
"There is a word 'overseer' -- slaves have them," he said cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrible Twins] Reference
If you buy and sell stocks, your overseer is the SEC. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He was what might be called the overseer of the overseers. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference
He would call a overseer down for bein 'rough at de wrong time. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The overseer was the first to give his version of the story about. From Wordnik.com. [With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War] Reference
Next to the master the overseer was the most important personage. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery in the State of North Carolina] Reference
The overseer was a man hired to look after the farm and whip the slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years a Slave]
I have known instances where the master or the overseer was the guilty one. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference
Next in authority to the overseer was the driver, who directed the work in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
During the summer absence of the master, the overseer was the only white man on the place. From Wordnik.com. [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference
No. 32. 33. 34. that are but Indifferent & as indifferently manag'd My overseer was a Notori. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, February 13, 1724] Reference
The overseer was a spare but stout-built, wiry, full-faced, black-haired Irishman called McCabe. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son] Reference
When I first knew Mr. Swan's plantation, his overseer was a man who had been a Methodist minister. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The hope of revenging themselves upon the overseer was a motive sufficient to make them brave death in any shape. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
That the overseer was a great scoundrel they had no doubt, and they therefore agreed that he must at once be got rid of. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia] Reference
The overseer was a sallow man on horseback in a straw hat and wool coat with his trousers tucked inside his muddy boots. From Wordnik.com. [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference
No one at China's domain name overseer, the China Internet Network Information Center, was immediately available to comment. From Wordnik.com. [Techworld Australia News]
The overseer was a very miserly fellow, and restricted his wife in what are considered the comforts of life -- such as tea, sugar, &c. From Wordnik.com. [American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses] Reference
The overseer was the person on the plantation who was the -- the -- usually a white man, but the man between the owner and the slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Jefferson Davis, American] Reference
Seated on a horse talking to the overseer was a fat little man in white linen who pulled off his hat and bowed profoundly to the ladies. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
I think to this day, that this act of the overseer was the most inhuman of all those that I have seen perpetrated upon defenceless slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave,] Reference
Then, when everyone was awake, the "overseer" arrived. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
Saleh, the "overseer" of the defence ministry, who is also. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
By this time, however, the sandy foundations of "overseer" Brent and. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Who needs any "overseer" to you know, complicate the whole thing with "standards"?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashback: McCain Favored Abolishing Department Of Education] Reference
Marster made us call his overseer. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
"When I first came here, the overseer was a bad man, not at all like. From Wordnik.com. [The English Orphans] Reference
The word originally signified an "overseer" or spiritual superintendent. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Cappadocian names), but he translates it rather as "overseer" or. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
A kind of overseer, or monitress there, until she had lately become free. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
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