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- noun Plural form of
Sclave .
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Examples
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I recognised some unmistakable Irishmen, Frenchmen, some Sclaves, and a Greek, or a Candiote.
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The fiery enthusiasm of the Sclaves was in them blended with the steadfast energy and patient docility of the Germans.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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Sclaves -- but what cares the age for the happiness of the race?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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The Irish, who in 1860 formed three-fifths of the foreign-born population, have come in steadily lessening numbers, until the Germans stand well at the head; while increasing multitudes of Italians, Poles, Bohemians, Russian Jews, and Hungariansboth Sclaves and Magyarscontinually arrive.
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Hester, George P., writes to Borrow on possible connection between Sclaves and Saxons, 348-349.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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Reading _Romany Rye_ I notice your account of the Sclaves and venture to trouble you with this, and to enquire whether you think that the Sclaves might be connected through the Saxons with the ancient municipal institutions of this country.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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As is usually the case with the Sclaves, it was difficult to read the recesses of his mind.
Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877
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He was a good French scholar, as the Sclaves generally are.
Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877
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They were all brown alike, but of different shades of that colour, and would have made a life-like drawing in Sepia – Sclaves, bears, children, and ponies.
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They were led by a party of Slovaks or Sclaves, such a ragged set of vagabonds, with some small ponies, on which the children were seated amidst a mass of tin pots and pans.
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