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Meanings of mere chattel in English
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Usage of mere chattel in English
1
I am a mere chattel, pushed from pillar to post, and expected to do my master's bidding.
2
Brian let his right arm pause then, and with his left flung his foe into the corner as if he had been a mere chattel.
3
She is twenty-one, and women are not now the mere chattels they once were.
4
Your horse, your ox, your kine, your dog, are not mere chattels, but sentient souls.
5
Men, women, and children were at their mercy, and were treated as mere chattels-theproperty of their rulers.
6
The law held them to be mere chattels, and he treated them as such, without any regard to the rights of humanity.