So you think your pickaninny is the best and the prettiest child alive, do you?
Every old black mammy or uncle who had ever worked on the place, every little pickaninny who could find the slightest claim, visited the great house at some time during the day for a share of its holiday cheer.
As we drove up I saw a little negro boy peeping at us from the back of the house, and as we halted a black woman ran out and seized the pickaninny by the ear, and dragged him back out of sight.
Thatcher came in then, leading the little black boy by the hand, and following him was the negro woman carrying a baby at her breast, and holding by the hand a little woolly-headed pickaninny about three years old.
Wat dis yer little pickaninny needs is ter see his mammy.
At the end of half an hour he was offering "Two ten fathoms calico and ten ten sticks tobacco" to the boy who first heard "pickaninny dog sing out.
What name you fella boy make 'm pickaninny dog belong along me walk about along water?
Maybe one fella boy hear 'm pickaninny dog sing out, I give 'm that fella boy five fathom calico, two ten sticks tobacco.
It would have been excruciatingly funny at any other time, and to one that was not an actor in the drama, to observe that not one man, woman, or pickaninny of the excited crowd offered to pass the confines of the melon patch.
The weest pickaninny spat it out and squalled because the turpentine burned his tongue.
He had some pickaninny heads, in poor condition, that he would let go for ten bob.
At such times the hush of death falls on the village, and not even a pickaninny dares make a noise.
Having bought a fowl from a native in a canoe, the native asked me if I wanted "Pickaninny stop along him fella.
Of course, pickaninny has happened along, but some of its uses are delicious.
I had told Laku to "putem littl' fella pickaninny in rock-a-bye belonga him" just as soon as he got back to the shack.
All they cared about was getting away from the Death Ship, and they didn't need to be told that this "pickaninny boat" hadn't come to help forward their desires in that direction.
And the first pickaninny we met told us the way to "Brills," on the upper side of the village.
Amos was a little pickaninny then, an' his father tells him as how he is goin' to show him dat gol' mine when he gits big 'nuff.
Da Affiky oomans is bin-a pit dapickaninny down 'pon da groun'.
Men like overseers and lawyers never take account of one little pickaninnyamong a hundred.
Lige and the pickaninny Cæsar Jackson responded to this suggestion with a pleased alacrity.
Lige and the breathless pickaninnytrotted faithfully beside her.
There is, for example, a pickaninny on a Southern plantation.
The one essential truth about a black, chubby, kinky-haired pickaninny is that, when he rolls up his eyes till only the whites are visible, he is irresistibly funny.
It is my littlepickaninny brother," went on Isidro, becoming alive to the fact that he was a centre of interest; "and he died last night of the great sickness.
Old mama bear she out huntin' one day and she come by de field where lots of darkies workin' and dere on a pallet she see fat, li'l pickaninny baby.
Dan she feed de li'l pickaninnybaby and dat how she raise dat nigger baby.
Mama bear she up and stole dat li'l pickaninny baby and takes it home.
The pickaninny thrust his arm in and took out a seed.
Pickaninny on top jerked a little bell rope, and sung out "Clover.
Presently a Pickaninny came along with a small keg in his hands.
Just as I got out there came along the Pickaninny that had gone over on the rainbow.
A ground-down Pickaninnywho had joined us proposed to hop over along the arch of the rainbow and see whether there was any gold on the mountain-top.
And so an hour passed while the pickaninny showed her many curious things, of which I have not time to tell you.
Now, you see, the case was this; I did not know that the children understood where the names of the Garuly and the Joblily, and the Pickaninny came from.
With that the pickaninny commenced to jump up and down on one, but he was so light that he could not break it.
When the third vote was announced, Frog's pickaninny was second in the race, with her nose lapped on the flank of the leader.
The result was, Frog gave his enthusiastic consent, and the Colonel agreed to enter the pickaninny in the contest.
A very thrifty and choleric man was my cousin, and considering a yaller nigger less valuable than a black one, he threatened to subject his overseer to a surgical operation if another half-breed pickaninny appeared on the place.
Fortunately the young lady was able to refute this slander of the University and its inmates by putting a white baby in evidence--the pickaninny specialty having been reserved by Providence for the manager of the Baptist missionary board.
Meanwhile, all unconscious, Chad fished on, catching perch after perch, but he could not keep his eyes on his cork while the little girl was so near, and more than once he was warned by a suppressed cry from the pickaninny when to pull.
The cool of the coming autumn was already in the air that Saturday when Miss Lucy and the Major and Chad, in the old carriage, with old Tom as driver and the pickaninny behind, started for General Dean's.
And, stringing the fish, Dan took the other pole and turned his eyes to his corks, while the pickaninny squatted behind him and Chad climbed up and sat on the bank letting his legs dangle over.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickaninny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
