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Seventy Years in Dixie choose

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[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 240: I wuz as mad as blazes.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 342: The mountain ‘boomers’ [...] in their rough cow-hide boots and plain home-spun shirts.
at boomer, n.3
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 224: A worthless, thriftless set of poverty-striken dead-beats.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 106: A regular tooth-puller would fasten a stout string or cord, to the disaffected grinder.
at grinder, n.1
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 212: In the early days, Hard-shell Baptists, as they were called, were the dominant religious party.
at hard-shell, adj.
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 239: We all had to light out fur Arkansaw.
at light out (v.) under light, v.1
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 238: Well, Josh, he never could preach wuth shucks.
at shucks, n.
[US] F.D. Srygley Seventy Years in Dixie 283: He protested [...] and declared that it was ‘dat yaller nigger what ort to be lashed.’.
at yellow nigger (n.) under yellow, adj.
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