...They sung as they swam along the streets, and I had never seen more beautiful creatures than there were amongst the brown sets — clear olive complexions,...and fine faces, elegant carriages, splendid figures, — full,plump, and magnificent. Most of the Sets were as much of a size as Lord 's eighteen daughters,...

...more beautiful creatures than there were amongst the brown sets — clear olive complexions, and tine faces, elegant carriages, splendid figures, — full,...Charity School of a Sunday, led by a rum-looking old beadle — others again had large Roman matron-looking women in the leading tiles, the figurantes in...

...the streets, in the most luxurious attitudes. I had never seen more beautiful creatures than there were amongst the brown sets — clear olive complexions,...Charity School of a Sunday, led by a rum-looking old beadle — others again had large Roman matron-looking women in the leading files, the figurantes in...

...the streets, in the most luxurious attitudes. I had never seen more beautiful creatures than there were amongst the brown sets — clear olive complexions,...Street, like a Charity School of a Sunday, led by a rum -looking old beadle — others again had large Roman matron-looking women in the leading files,...

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...the Set Girls, for they were rigidly segregated according to color, with the brown sets with their "clear olive complexions, and fine faces, elegant...splendid figures — full, plump, and magnificent" representing the most beautiful of all, according to the nineteenth century fictional observer Tom...

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...of all intermediate gradations of colour. . . I had never seen more beautiful creatures that there were amongst the brown sets — clear olive complexions,...splendid figures- — full, plump and magnificent." A century later, Zora Neale Hurston would write in Voodoo Gods ( 1 939) that "Jamaica is the land where...