Bom-bye he see too, and kill um bof, de lad an' de piccaninny moder.
Ef Golah see de moder ob de piccaninny gib dat lad one lilly fig, one drop ob drink, he kill um, sartin-sure.
Soon as he is weaned I'm going to adopt him; I always did want a piccaninny for my own.
The slope of what the scientific term the great West African bank is, on the whole, very regular, except opposite Piccaninny Bassam, where it is cut right through by a great chasm, presumably the result of volcanic action.
Down the street his piccaninny band came straggling, looking for him.
He reduced the house staff to two, allowing a shadow or two extra in the persons of a few old black fellows and a piccaninny or two, sending the rejected to camp.
It was a difficult problem, for to her old-fashioned notions it was a trifle infra dig for a girl to work for herself, and it hurt her tender heart that the Piccaninny of all others should be the one to go out into the world.
Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
The great white father," he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, "is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.
Thus perished many of the flower of the Piccaninny tribe.
Opposite Piccaninny Bassam heads, with its stalk to the shore and spreading out a huge funnel eastward and westward, the curious formation known as the 'Bottomless Pit.
A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek with dismay.
I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood.
The Piccaninny followed his tui up and up, but it flitted from tree top to tree top, and he could hear it tolling a bell and cracking a whip, and chuckling at him, and finally it flew away, and that was the last of it.
It was then the Piccaninny woke up because the bough had ceased to sway gently up and down.
But the Piccaninny ran for his life, with all the bees after him, and when the noise of their angry buzzing had died away, the Bush Baby got up and had a rare feast of honey, and went back home very sticky and blissful and contented.
The Piccaninny told the Bush Baby that he would find some honey for her.
The Piccaninny led the Bush Baby to several other flowers, but at every one some bird or insect would edge them away, crying out: "We got here first!
When I was young I was told I would die if I ate the karaka berries, but I suppose Piccaninny tummies are different.
Little Swanki, the Piccaninny girl, and Tiki, the Piccaninny boy, were up in a karaka tree eating the pulp of the ripe berries.
To comfort it the Piccaninny put his little brown arms right round it and loved it, and they both sat down on a fallen tree to rest while he wiped its eyes with a soft green leaf--they didn't know about pocket handkerchiefs yet.
The great white father,' he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, 'is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.
The time for parting came at last, and the Major nerved himself to bid adieu to his piccaninny with a composure which should leave her unsuspicious of its final nature.
He merely remarked to himself whimsically that, "the piccaninny would astonish them!
The Rabbit, with his head tucked in and his legs out stiff, was the block, and the Piccaninny the executioner, with a horrid scowl and a large axe.
The animals and thePiccaninny all frisked around in high excitement.
It was arranged that the Piccaninny and the Rabbit were to charge together from a distance and see which could unhorse the other.
All this was as it should be, but when the much battered Bear and Piccaninny saw the Lion laid low, they arose and rushed at him and pummelled him until he roared again.
At this moment the Rabbit came racing into the ring mounted on a curious four-legged animal which looked strangely like the Piccaninny and Patsey joined together and covered with a rug.
And I've been asleep with my head upon my dear, naughty old Bear, with all my animals and the Piccaninny round me.
Baby Jane and the Piccaninny also had the very presents they had wanted, but Baby Jane had no time to play with hers just then.
However, the Piccaninny and the Rabbit soon began a firm friendship by playfully jogging one another over.
All this while the others were turning slowly from a state of wondering admiration to fidgetiness, and the Rabbit and the Piccaninny were beginning to grow rough; so Baby Jane thought of something that everybody would like.
Now, Baby Jane had decided that the Rabbit and the Piccaninny might always pull together, being each so small.
The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piccaninny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
