Legree, Simon

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The cruel overseer and owner of slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Though the book describes conditions in the slaveholding states of the South, Legree, the most vicious character in it, is from New England.

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How to use Legree, Simon in a sentence

In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Those in the race—Senator Paul Simon, Rep. Dick Gephardt, Rev. Jesse Jackson—were far behind.
Want President Hillary? Then Primary Her|Jeff Greenfield|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The coup came just months after Simon revealed he had beaten throat cancer.
Drawing Room Coup at Brideshead House Forces Out Simon And Becci Howard|Tom Sykes|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Simon did not expect to inherit, and in a way he never really did.
Drawing Room Coup at Brideshead House Forces Out Simon And Becci Howard|Tom Sykes|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.
Wrongly Imprisoned for 15 Years Thanks to an Innocence Project|Jacob Siegel|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
We have the cylinder and ends home from Polgooth, and my cousin Simon Vivian is making the tubes.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Advancing on foot, the Scots planted their ladders unperceived and scaled the wall at the point where Simon was in charge.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
Probably, it is just a piece of 'Folly'; yet in other things Simon Waterman had the reputation of being a sane, sensible man.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
The first vessel adapted to these purposes was the “Argonaut,” built by Simon Lake in 1894.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various