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Example sentences for "field hand"

  • Us mama name Marguerite and she a field hand, too, so us chillen growed up in the white folks house mostly.

  • Pappy am de field hand and de coachman and everything else what am needed.

  • My father was a field hand, and Mr. Swanson work de fire out dem.

  • My daddy was a field hand and my mother worked in the fields, too, right 'longside my daddy, so she could keep him lined up.

  • Susan worked in the house--no field hand--like Lillie works for Miss Jin) To my knowing she had three white chillun.

  • Yas'um, dey is cook aw de food for de field hand in de same big ole black pot out in de yard.

  • Now de chillun on de plantation ain' been 'low to eat outer dat pot wid de field hand.

  • Charles was a fair specimen of the "corn-field hand," but thought that he could take care of himself in Canada.

  • John Alexander was about forty-four years of age, a man of ordinary size, quite black, and a good specimen of a regular corn-field hand.

  • To punish Cordelia, on several occasions, she had been sent to one of the plantations to work as a field hand.

  • Latham of Bullock; Tom Lee of Perry, field hand, who had a reputation for moderation; Alfred Strother of Dallas; J.

  • Now, as in slavery times, the white prefers not to work as a field hand in the Black Belt when he can get more independent work elsewhere.

  • I was raised up for a field hand, and I ain't never wukked in no white folks house.

  • Her mother was a field hand, and they lived in a little house in the quarters.

  • In relating his experience as a field hand Mr. Wright says that he and his fellow slaves were roused each morning about 3 o'clock by the blowing of a horn.

  • Being a field hand, she was obliged to walk twelve miles and return, between nightfall and daybreak, to see her children" (p.

  • HW: He was a field hand at first, but after he come back with the scrofula, they just made him a carriage driver.

  • He was a field hand up to eighteen years.

  • But if she persisted in rejecting them, he would sell her as a field hand on the worst plantation on the river.

  • My mother was a field hand, and one morning was ten or fifteen minutes behind the others in getting into the field.

  • Aunt Adeline must have been a field hand too.

  • Her mother was a weaver, her father--a field hand, and she did both housework and plantation labor.

  • Pa was a field hand, and he belonged to Marse Britt Tilly.

  • Her mother was a field hand, but in the evenings she spun and wove down in their cabin.

  • She was brought here from Virginia to be a field hand, but she was smart as a whip, and lived to be 118 years old.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being quite; beyond dispute; common name; divine life; duty towards; field batteries; field fortification; field glass; field glasses; field goal; field guns; field hand; field hands; field service; field sports; field system; field work; fifteen miles; for himself; great pile; hostile fire; mild form; more moderate; physical objects; should hate; total employment