When the Piccaninnies went to bed that night they were very uneasy and could not sleep well.
The Piccaninniestook to the trees altogether then, and no wonder!
So after hanging about for a time to see what the Piccaninnies intended doing, she flitted away after a large blue fly, and while she was busy Tiki and Swanki gave her the slip.
The Piccaninnies simply love to watch the Lovely Ladies dancing, and long to be able to dance in the same way.
The Piccaninnies circled round and round this queer grey pile wondering what on earth it could be.
The hats were rather silly, because the Piccaninnies lived so deep in the Bush that the sun couldn't hurt them, but then fashions are absurd.
One of the Piccaninnieshad a horrid adventure one day.
Long ago the Piccaninnies didn't have a rag to their backs except a huia feather which they wore in their hair.
There was such a fuss, the Piccaninnies simply couldn't stand it, and they fled to the Bush.
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The Piccaninnies knew that if she got wind of where they were going it would soon be all over the bush, and they made up their minds to dodge her.
There was an empty meat tin which flashed so brightly that the Piccaninnies took it for a helmet, and each in turn tried to wear it; but it was so big that it simply hid them altogether, so very regretfully they had to throw it away.
But as they arrived near the edge of the bush and the trees grew thinner, the kiwi, who hates the open country for his own reasons, refused to go any farther, and the Piccaninnies had to get off and trudge the rest of the way on foot.
A tremendous fire was soon flaming on the beach, near it the gins and piccaninnies assembled, with bits of stick, clubs, and calabashes, on which to beat time.
Some of the blacks flew to arms at once, and stood with poised spears in a menacing attitude, whilst the gins and piccaninnies cowered together on the beach.
We were distant from the beach about three miles, and could see clearly the smoke of several fires; while with binocular glasses we could make out the figures of the blacks fishing, and of the piccaninnies and gins romping in the sand.
There am 'bout 30 old and young niggers and 'bout 20 piccaninnies too little to work, and de nuss cares for dem while dey mammies works.
The quaking piccaninnies cringed with fear as they watched him working up his malignant feelings into the most awful imps--imps which threatened violence to their souls.
He actually modelled the grossest of debils-debils for the piccaninnies and impaled all the vital parts with grass darts, while the piccaninniesbroke into open jeers at Yan-coo, for the spell of the debil-debil had been destroyed.
Wylo with a tiny spear of grass knocked the head of the atrocious debil-debil off, and the piccaninnies changed shrieks for smiles.
In the fulness of his vanity and wit, Wylo began to make gratuitous fun of Yan-coo, who fretted and fumed and terrified the piccaninnies with still more hideous debils-debils.
Seben, sah, countin' de twins as is on'y piccaninnies yet.
Perhaps he may not have such a raft of piccaninnies as he said, but anyhow I'm pretty sure he deserved to be given one more chance to make good.
When massa go a-drivin' in de carry-all and pair, Little piccaninniesrun behind to shout Hurrah!
A score of piccaninnies were sweeping at the leaves in the yard.
No Sunday crowd of mothers chatted as they squatted around the buildings; no piccaninnies dabbled in the water, and waited anxiously for sweets on my return.
By largess of sweets to the piccaninnies and gauds of cheap jewellery to their mothers, I had gained a certain popularity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piccaninnies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
