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1  I was in his power, and had to do it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Please, sir, it's powerful bad spot, this' yer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The boys all means well, but they 's powerful car'less.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  "I know very well that you've got the law on your side, and the power," said George, bitterly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  And behold the tears of such as are oppressed; and on the side of their oppressors there was power.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  George was awe-struck at the force, the vehemence, the power, with which these broken sentences were uttered.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  No, no, Adolph," he said, one day, as Adolph was deprecating the passing of power out of his hands; "let Tom alone.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  George had stood like one transfixed, at hearing his doom thus suddenly pronounced by a power that he knew was irresistible.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Tom stood perfectly submissive; and yet Legree could not hide from himself that his power over his bond thrall was somehow gone.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  But a child's thoughts are rather dim, undefined instincts; and in Eva's noble nature many such were yearning and working, for which she had no power of utterance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  These words of an ancient volume, got up principally by "ignorant and unlearned men," have, through all time, kept up, somehow, a strange sort of power over the minds of poor, simple fellows, like Tom.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  The tyrant observed the whisper, and conjectured its import, though he could not hear what was said; and he inwardly strengthened himself in his determination to keep the power he possessed over his victim.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
16  Certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simplicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
17  I heard her plead and beg for us; but he told her 't was no use; that he was in this man's debt, and that this man had got the power over him; and that if he didn't pay him off clear, it would end in his having to sell the place and all the people, and move off.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
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