Horace is the only one who celebrated a freedwoman in some of his odes. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference
The freedwoman was startled and unbelieving, then sulky and offended-then she wept. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
For another, Julia's desire to learn bespoke the sort of drive she would need as a freedwoman. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
Though a freedwoman, she was one of grand status: she had once worked for the mother of the Emperor Claudius. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
I was a Cherokee slave and now I am a Cherokee freedwoman, and besides that I am a quarter Cherokee my own self. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
It seems likely that she was a freedwoman, and the laws forbade marriage between a free-born Roman citizen and a slave, or an ex-slave. From Wordnik.com. [Augustine of Hippo: Common of Theologians and Teachers] Reference
So that first night dirtside he put his freedwoman into his cabin, while her brother and he slept on transom couches in the wardroom. \par. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
And tears glittered in the eyes of the freedwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
But I, the humble freedwoman, will speak in my turn to thee, O Dea. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
If the freedman or freedwoman is less than a 'centenarius', that is, has. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Does it mean the male freedman only, or does it mean the freedwoman also?. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
These were the old freedwoman, who had remained in Tanis, her granddaughter. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Tombs line the street and they include some important ones such as the freedwoman. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Bloombury groundbreaks $577M integrated resort complex in Entertainment City] Reference
She wrote a few words also, committing care over Lygia to Nero's freedwoman, Acte. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
A freedwoman had roused superstitious fear in the heart of a daughter of the Cæsars!. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
Many questions were needed to draw this much from the freedwoman, for she spoke but little. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Archibius to give the faithful, clever freedwoman an account of the matter with his own lips. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
June said, using in her agitation a carefully disused form of speech; for June was a freedwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
I saw them just now, right across the Forum, when the wretched freedwoman clung shrieking round my shins. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
So, raising his head and looking over the shoulder of Lygia at the young freedwoman, he said with malice. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
"Who art thou?" murmured the freedwoman; "there is a film over my eyes -- I cannot see -- art thou a goddess?". From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
"Pooh!" cried Tanno, "how should I remember the marriage of a freedwoman I never saw with a bumpkin I never heard of?". From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
It was known to her also that the young freedwoman lived in melancholy, that she was a person different from all other women of. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
" The black freedwoman looked back in incomprehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
"A most unusual freedwoman," Hirnio asserted, "as she was almost a portent as a slave-girl. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
Farewell then, slave of Iadmon and Xanthus, freedwoman of Charaxus! ". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
I demand equality on behalf of the freedwoman as well as the freedman. ". From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
Let the freedwoman of the. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
"She's a freedwoman, " Lee said. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
He has just married my uncle's freedwoman Marcia. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
"A freedwoman!" cried Tanno. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
"She's a freedwoman," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
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