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The Power of Black choose

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[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 195: It isn’t fair living off hominy grits, sowbelly, long sweetnin’ all your life.
at sow-belly, n.
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 138: You’re crazy goin’ up before a gun like Colonel Jones! He’s fast as greased titties.’ ‘Fast sure, but facing a man with a gun isn’t like shooting glass balls.’.
at fast as greased titties (adj.) under fast, adj.1
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 140: Did you hire the gunslinger, Colonel?
at gun-slinger, n.
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 141: Get some deputies to arrest anyone going gunning tonight.
at gun, v.2
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 138: ‘You’re crazy goin’ up before a gun like Colonel Jones! He’s fast as greased titties.’ ‘Fast sure, but facing a man with a gun isn’t like shooting glass balls. And I’ve had a lot of gunplay in my time.’.
at gun, n.1
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 195: It isn’t fair living off hominy grits [...] or letting some lease hound hambone you into signing away your mineral rights.
at hambone, v.3
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 139: It’s no skin off my yella ass.
at no skin off one’s ass under skin, n.1
[US] ‘M.B. Longman’ Power of Black (1962) 142: People like the look of a green leaf on a stogie Cuba style.
at stogie, n.
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