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The Colonel’s Dream choose

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[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 74: He’s not a ‘Black and Tan Republican,’ but a ‘Lily White’.
at black and tan, adj.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 222: Then Bark hauled off an’ hit ’im. They had it hot an’ heavy for a while.
at hot and heavy, phr.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 79: He has fell on his feet dis time, suh, sho’s you bawn.
at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 194: What gentleman here would want his daughter to marry a blubber-lipped, cocoanut-headed, kidney-footed, etc., etc., nigger?
at coconut-headed (adj.) under coconut, n.1
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 226: They had been brought down in the regular ‘Jim Crow’ car, for the colonel saw coloured women and children come out ahead of them.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 115: It belongs to a comapany [...] but Old Bill Fetters owns the majority of the stock – durn, him!
at darn, v.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 28: So when I got my laig kyo’ed up [...] I come back hyuh whar I wuz bo’n.
at k.o., v.1
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 58: You niggers are always kickin’ [...] I never see people so hard to satisfy.
at kick, v.1
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 194: What gentleman here would want his daughter to marry a blubber-lipped, cocoanut-headed, kidney-footed, etc., etc., nigger?
at kidney-foot (n.) under kidney, n.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 222: Lee had more strength, but Bark had more science, an’ laid Lee out col’.
at lay out cold (v.) under lay out, v.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 74: He’s not a ‘Black and Tan Republican,’ but a ‘Lily White’.
at lilywhite, n.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 207: Who is this mucker, anyway?
at mucker, n.2
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 115: Not by a durn sight.
at by a long sight (adv.) under sight, n.2
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 101: He’s only a poor stick, the last of good stock run to seed.
at stick, n.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 76: They are not conscious of any disgrace attending stripes or the ball and chain.
at stripes, n.1
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 67: I thought, suh, that you looked like a No’the’n man. That bein’ so, doubtless you’d like somethin’ on the Uncle Tom order.
at Uncle Tom, adj.
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 206: I could tote a bunch of beauty like that around the ballroom all night.
at tote, v.1
[US] C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 23: ‘Howdy do, uncle,’ said the colonel.
at uncle, n.
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