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Example sentences for "pickaninnies"

Lexicographically close words:
picciotto; piccolo; pice; pich; pick; pickaninny; pickax; pickaxe; pickaxes; picke
  1. The pickaninnies acknowledged the introduction with screams.

  2. Kelly, look at the pickaninnies in the automobile following the band," exclaimed Mr. Jones, greatly interested.

  3. She was utterly unconscious that the load of pickaninnies formed a most appropriate part of the spectacle.

  4. She was thinking of a group of women she had caught discussing with great unkindness the outcome of the girl's efforts to make the pickaninnies happy.

  5. The shouts of the pickaninnies were stilled at the pleasing spectacle of a fellow man partaking of food.

  6. The pickaninnies joined with shouts, considering it a pleasant game.

  7. Here and there they passed a battered negro cabin, its oldest white-haired inhabitant smoking a corncob pipe beside the door, and half a dozen scantily clothed pickaninnies parading tattered dolls on the wild-grown grass in front.

  8. An aged darkey was swinging an axe at the woodpile and two little pickaninnies were gathering a basket of chips.

  9. Then some thoughtful soldier pulled a box of hardtack across the trenches and the little Spanish soldiers fell upon it like schoolboys and scrambled like pickaninnies for a penny.

  10. He was an honored guest with the grown folks, because the grandeurs he had witnessed and could tell of, and he was a cause of dread to the pickaninnies who were often threatened with banishment to the Unc.

  11. The slave trade has always been monopolized by the Northern folks in this country--by the puritanical New Englanders who used to sell the pickaninnies at so much a pound, as cattle or sheep are sold.

  12. They and their gins and pickaninnies appeared to take great notice of the whole thing.

  13. The women would try and run back after their pickaninnies when they dropped, just like that heifer when Warrigal knocked her calf on the head to-day.

  14. Dick stood on the tiny deck on the bow of the boat, but with every thrust of his pole the canoe wabbled till the pickaninnies balanced it.

  15. Before they were fairly afloat all the pickaninnies belonging to the camp had piled into the craft.

  16. Around the quarters and the stable the pickaninnies and servants seemed to remember the boy in a kindly genuine way that touched him, and even Jerome Conners, the overseer, seemed glad to see him.

  17. Dismounting at the horse-block the young painter handed the reins to a negro boy who had advanced to meet him, and, making his way through a group of pickaninnies and snuffing hounds, mounted the porch.

  18. Lookin' out from high up in a tree one of 'em seed two little pickaninnies but he couldn't find whar dey went.

  19. Pickaninnies sho had to mind too, 'cause dem old 'omans would evermore lay on de switch.

  20. De dogs an' de pickaninnies dey sleep lazy like 'gainst de big gate waitin' fo' de crack ob dat whip which wuz de signal dat Julius wuz bringin' de master down de long dribe under de oaks.

  21. Dem pickaninnies dey had de natural born art ob twistin' dey body any way dey wish.

  22. Now you see where the Garulies and the Joblilies and the Pickaninnies came from.

  23. He had come back some other way known to Pickaninnies and had in his arms a pot just like the one we had seen.

  24. There was a great bustle about the place, dried-up Garulies running around, dandy-looking Pickaninnies hopping about, and Joblilies swimming in the lake.

  25. Concentric, having a common center, as a series of rings one within another.

  26. He did not own, even to himself, that it was the negro cabins and fat pickaninnies that were in his mind, and that down in his heart was a wicked and savage purpose.

  27. The fat pickaninnies were a constant temptation to him, and it had taken all Bo's watchfulness to keep him out of dreadful mischief.

  28. It was for Horatio that he feared, for he knew that death would be sure and swift if one of the pickaninnies was even so much as scratched, not to mention anything worse that might happen.

  29. Illustration] Chad was waiting on the flagstones surrounded by some stray pickaninnies when the procession stopped, and assisted the major to alight, with as much form and ceremony as if he had been the best mounted gentleman in the land.

  30. Why, those little pickaninnies will stuff candy and nuts all night and lick the paint off the jumping-jacks and Noah's arks, and by morning they will be having forty million stomachaches.

  31. The little pickaninnies were on the lookout for Docallison, and as we neared Aunt Keziah's cabin a shout went up from the bushes where some of the little boys were hiding, watching the bend in the road.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickaninnies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.