Sentence examples for overseer by from inspiring English sources

Mark Twain shows up as a leavening influence, as when a slave takes revenge on a vicious overseer by packing his pipe with gunpowder.

Eventually he is hired as an overseer by a soft, decadent sugar planter, but he runs into trouble when his employer's three daughters wind up pregnant with little Cobras.

Since David is a bit of a daredevil, and has never met anyone who attracts him as much as Elise, he tries to escape the overseers by outrunning their ability to know what he's going to do next.

(Harvard was probably the first to shift to direct election of its Board of Overseers by alumni in 1865).

Some slaves took revenge on their masters or overseers by putting them in stocks, like they themselves had been before.

The trust would not need to be backed up by statute – a red line issue for so many editors – in contrast to Letwin's existing plan to create an overseer backed by royal charter, supported by a five-page bill the Cabinet Office minister has drawn up to ensure that the charter body cannot be tampered with.

The gruesome dangers represented by the swamp, and the vicious overseer (played by Gustav von Seyffertitz) throw the maternal virtues of Pickford's "Mama" Molly and the enjoyably boisterous antics of the other children into relief.

Your fleet of worker bots do all the weeding, pest control, and harvesting of produce, as directed by an overseer bot, embodied by a mesh of probes in the soil.

New elders are appointed by a traveling overseer after recommendation by the existing body of elders.

With the axe wielded by Sterling Coo's new British overseer, Lane Pryce, played by Jared Harris (son of the great Richard Harris), also from Fringe, on which he played a mysterious teleporter.

Deregulation became self-regulation with a board of overseers appointed by the groups themselves the only real watchdog in recent years.