Curses spat behind his back
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Estas e outras pragas vomitavão as escravas resmungando entre si contra o feitor,
These and other curses the slave-women spewed, grumbling among themselves against the overseer,
The narrator gathers the curses up: 'vomitavão,' they vomited them — the verb makes the hatred a physical expulsion, something the body must be rid of. But it is all 'entre si,' among themselves, and muttered; the power to curse aloud is not theirs, only the power to curse under the breath.
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