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1  Brother's blood shall cry on brother up the dead and empty skies.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
ContextHighlight   In VIII
2  Yonder in the gray past he had played with that dead boy, romping together under the solemn trees.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
ContextHighlight   In XIII
3  I've seen niggers drop dead in the furrow, but they were kicked aside, and the plough never stopped.
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ContextHighlight   In VII
4  But not all the past South, though it rose from the dead, can gainsay the heart-touching witness of these songs.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV
5  Back toward town we glided, past the straight and thread-like pines, past a dark tree-dotted pond where the air was heavy with a dead sweet perfume.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
ContextHighlight   In VII
6  But with the carrying out of the crop-lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
ContextHighlight   In VIII
7  This was not his choosing, but the crime of this happy-go-lucky nation which goes blundering along with its Reconstruction tragedies, its Spanish war interludes and Philippine matinees, just as though God really were dead.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII
8  To-day it has been only by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the thinking men of the South that the Negro's share of the school fund has not been cut down to a pittance in some half-dozen States; and that movement not only is not dead, but in many communities is gaining strength.
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ContextHighlight   In IX