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| 16 | 1070 | The View more quotes about expression">expression 'girl' in such contexts is rich and delicious. |
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| 16 | 1067 | Men saw her, and wanted her, badly. |
| 16 | 1068 | She had even been put in the iron belt. |
| 16 | 1069 | Secondly, aside from her youth, as noted, she was a girl in the sense that she was a female slave, the sense in which all female slaves are girls. |
| 16 | 1070 | The expression 'girl' in such contexts is rich and delicious. |
| 16 | 1071 | It has a lovely reductive or demeaning sense in which it discriminates between the slave and the free woman, and calls attention to the lowliness, the unimportance and the meaninglessness of the slave. |
| 16 | 1072 | Indeed, free mistresses will invariably refer to, and address, their serving slaves, and such, even those of their own age, as "girl". |
| 16 | 1073 | Secondly, the expression 'girl', at least in the usage of men, has not only the aforementioned connotation but, even more powerfully, and independently of the age of the female, the commendatory suggestion of extreme sexual desirability. |