Noun : His boss was a slave driver. From Dictionary.com.
I would as soon accept the lash of a slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Mr. Quirk will take you on, and he is a slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
"Let go of me, you red-eyed slave-driver!" he cried out. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Mechanica]
Mum decided to not be as strict, nasty slave-driver person. From Wordnik.com. [abutterfly Diary Entry] Reference
No; he's an Irishman, and a slave-driver, and my best friend. From Wordnik.com. [THE TASTE OF THE MEAT] Reference
Every slave-driver took to his heels and disappeared in the thickets. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Next came a swaggering bully of a slave-driver, evidently bred in the. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
I bow deeply to DD and sing his praises--even if he is a slave-driver!. From Wordnik.com. [Everything you ever wanted to know about STAR WARS - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
Deity is by such reasoners degraded into the character of universal slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
"How is this slave working?" he asked the slave-driver, who was standing over us. From Wordnik.com. [Escape on Venus]
Wretched beings may be worked in gangs, under a slave-driver, in fields and mines. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Commander-inChief, was not to be insulted by such a little smuggling slave-driver as him!. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
But yet, she must be almost a "slave-driver" and perfectionist when it comes to her work. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Whitson: A Heroine of Science and Technology | Universe Today] Reference
Pocock1 won his spurs as a slave-driver and earned the undying hatred of the proletariat. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16: The End] Reference
She could not be afraid of her employer, for Marcus was no slave-driver: very far from it. From Wordnik.com. [Crime On the Coast]
I beheld my dear sister in the hands of a slave-driver, and compelled to submit to his cruelty!. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave] Reference
The slave-driver may work as hard as the slave in his efforts to appropriate the earnings of others. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
It was too late then, however, to do him any permanent good; the habit of the slave-driver was formed. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
We are paying TOO MUCH already and I will NOT vote for someone with that kind of slave-driver mentality. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Where Does Burner Stand on Tax Cuts?] Reference
I just would have hoped for more from such a notorious perfectionist and slave-driver like James Cameron. From Wordnik.com. [Rabid Rewind: Avatar] Reference
One must either be an autocrat and slave-driver or a Nihilist out there, but here -- they are mad, all of them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
The voters for Gladstone went up to that candidate's booth (the slave-driver, as they called him) with Wilde's colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man]
Workaholic slave-driver, she thought as she sat there in the terminal, waiting impatiently for the announcement to board. From Wordnik.com. [Fugitive Bride]
White with anger, Faussel turned on his heel and stamped out -- to spread the word about what a slave-driver the new director was. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
I have misrepresented a slave-driver, I will here give an extract from a paper published in a slaveholding State, Tennessee, called the. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave] Reference
George, the fisherman suddenly became a slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
I have been a slave-driver, to others as well as to myself. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
The free, independent, and enlightened gentleman slave-driver of. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
Like a coach on the side-lines, like a slave-driver plying his whip. From Wordnik.com. [The White Mice] Reference
The use of the term "slave" implies a slave-owner and a slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
The slave-driver had heard me praise the vast fields of fertility in America. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
Mr. Covey, as I have shown, was a well-trained negro-breaker and slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference
Mississippi slave-driver, or a renegade Yankee dealer in human cattle on the banks of the Potomac. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference
Only yesterday I was laughing at him, and telling him he would have made an excellent slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Luttrell's First Patient] Reference
Nature, or his cruel habits, had given to his face an expression of unusual savageness, even for a slave-driver. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
The slave-driver drew his knife, and cut the rattan that bound the man, who turned his dying eyes on him with an imploring look. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters] Reference
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