These clubs commonly crossed social strata, including among their membership local notables, dhimmi and slaves – to the exclusion of those associated with the local ruler, or amir.

These evolved into the Sipahis ( feudal landholders similar to western knights and Byzantine pronoiai ) and Qapukulu ( door slaves, taken from youth like Janissaries and trained to be royal servants and elite soldiers, mainly cataphracts ).

These servants and slaves would come to use the creole as an everyday vernacular, rather than merely in situations in which contact with a speaker of the superstrate was necessary.

These are commonly seen as the predecessor of the modern high-heeled shoe, while the poor and lower classes in Europe, as well as slaves in the New World, were barefoot.

These fleets would target poorly defended settlements, and either pillage them for their valuables, or demand ransom, which was often paid in goods and slaves, sometimes to the benefit of the victor's own plantations.

These captive slaves were not considered part of the ethnic group or ' tribe ', African kings held no particular loyalty to them.

These servants and slaves would come to use the creole as an everyday vernacular, rather than merely in situations in which contact with a speaker of the superstrate was necessary.

These slave cabins were occupied by the slaves who worked in the mansion or in Jefferson's manufacturing ventures, and not by those who labored in the fields.

These public slaves had a larger measure of independence than slaves owned by families, living on their own and performing specialized tasks.

These slaves were also forcibly relocated during the process of removal.

These French entrepreneurs were attracted to the area because of its large flatlands and came with enough capital, slaves, and commercial connections to make a significant impact in Ponce's sugar cane production.

These " colored minstrels " always claimed to be recently-freed slaves ( doubtlessly many were, but most were not ) and were widely seen as authentic.

These slaves also built the mill race and made the first water wheel by hand.

These settlers, like many other landowners throughout the colonies, owned slaves.

These natural endowments included soil that was conducive to growing sugar and a high marginal product of labor realized through the increasing number of slaves.

These styles have all borrowed from African rhythms and sounds, brought over the Atlantic ocean by slaves.

These slaves were ancestors of the Belizean Kriol people.

These slaves came largely from Sub-Saharan Africa ( mainly Zanj ), the Caucasus ( mainly Circassians ), Central Asia ( mainly Turks ), and Central and Eastern Europe ( mainly Saqaliba ).

These slaves were, however, dispersed and lost their Indian cultural identity over the course of time.

These slaves were captured mainly from seaside villages in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and from farther places like France, England, the Netherlands, Ireland and even Iceland and North America.

These slaves were mostly people brought in from other parts of Africa and Malays.

These slaves were then sent by ship to Brazil, chained and in crowded conditions.

These settlements, called mocambos and quilombos, gathered not only African slaves but also people of indigenous origin.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

These were Oneida Indians.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These were his public academic activities, domi forisque, in the college and in the university.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

These were heroes nine feet tall to him ''.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

These curves were derived by an analysis of extensive skywave measurement data.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.