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Example sentences for "pick cotton"

  • The overseer now told us that shoes would be given to all those who were able to go to the field to pick cotton.

  • This deprived of shoes the children, and several old persons, whose eye-sight was not sufficiently clear to enable them to pick cotton.

  • My true value had not yet been ascertained by my present owner; and whether I was to hold the rank of a first or second rate hand, could only be determined by an experience of my ability to pick cotton.

  • We always shuck corn and shell it at night, on moon-light nights we pick cotton.

  • All dem come to cotton pickin dat want to en pick cotton en cook big dinner.

  • Yes'um, old Massa would give her task to pick cotton en hoe cotton en pick peas or somethin another like dat 'bout all de time.

  • I recollects I used to be right much of a hand to pull fodder en pick cotton en all such like dat 'cause all my work was in de field mostly till I got to de place dat I couldn' work no longer.

  • Hoed cotton, pick cotton, 'tend to calves and slop de pigs, under de 'vision of de overseer.

  • Had to pick up wood en potatoes in de fall or pick cotton.

  • Had to hoe cotton en pick cotton en all such as dat.


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