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Children of Bondage 199: Martin associated with a clique of boys who were gun-toters, thieves, and ‘bad men.’ His best friend was sentenced to the penitentiary.at bad man, n.
Children of Bondage 199: Martin associated with a clique of boys who were gun-toters, thieves, and ‘bad men.’ His best friend was sentenced to the penitentiary. Children of Bondage 35: [H]e and his brothers were lower-lower-class people who cut and shot, went to ‘breakdowns,’ had their women, and are still known as ‘bad niggers’.at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
Children of Bondage 211: Judy admits that he is a ‘big talker’ and that he runs from good fighters.at big talk, v.
Children of Bondage 271: ‘[M]y mamma is pure hell. She’ll crawl (fight) anybody any time’.at crawl, v.2
Children of Bondage 146: She is afraid to ‘pass,’ though she knows she could and would like to go as white.at go as (v.) under go, v.
Children of Bondage 271: ‘My father is a warhorse, an’ my mamma is pure hell. She’ll crawl (fight) anybody any time’.at hell, n.
Children of Bondage 90: [Edward's mother] believes that Edward wants to be a
‘little tusk hog’ (hard-boiled person), but she considers him a sissy in many ways.at tush hog, n.
Children of Bondage 226: Judy's clique ‘joans’ him about his father's staying at home, not working, and giving his mother so many children; and about Lillie's and his other sisters' being ‘whores’.at jone, v.
Children of Bondage 222: ‘Shore do wish I could draw my number out. I been playin’ for a long time an’ ain’t never hit nothin’’.at numbers, the, n.
Children of Bondage 124: He says, ‘What colored people do is to sit down on you and as soon as one man tries to do anything, he doesn't have a single friend to help him.at sit on, v.
Children of Bondage 37: She was friendly with boys who [...] ‘turned out’ house parties by hurling bricks through the windows.at turn out, v.3
Children of Bondage 37: [of beating] She put River Side boys ‘on the spot’ by leading them into traps and whistling for her gang of boys [...] who broke street lights so that they could beat up ‘outside’ boys.at outside, adj.
Children of Bondage 154: Another Creole [...] is called a ‘nigger’ by the whites and a ‘peck’ by the colored.at peck, n.2
Children of Bondage 37: [of beating] She put River Side boys ‘on the spot’ by leading them into traps and whistling for her gang of boys [...] who broke street lights so that they could beat up ‘outside’ boys.at put on the spot (v.) under spot, n.3
Children of Bondage 193: ‘If I want to start mamma, all I got to do is to do somethin’ to Phil; an’ if I want to hurt the ol’ man, I do somethin’ to Helen’.at start, v.
Children of Bondage 258: ‘They ain’t no worse than other married girls. You ’spect them to sweetheart aroun’’.at sweetheart, v.
Children of Bondage 258: Sara Mae’s mother [...] was not married to Sara Mae’s father. ‘He was a sweetheart man,’ with whom she lived for only three weeks.at sweetheart man (n.) under sweetheart, n.
Children of Bondage 119: [T]he type of aggression which he brings forward [...] is enough to make him seem quite a ‘tough cookie’ and to give him a certain romantic flair.at tough cookie (n.) under tough, adj.
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