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[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 29 Aug. 4/3: Now, white farmers and antis of the parish [...] do you want the nigger in yours?
at anti, n.
[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 10 Aug.2/4: I found Buck cleanin off his corn land [...] as busy as a thousand bees in one tar bucket.
at busy as..., adj.
[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 10 Aug.2/5: I could hustle around and furnish the necessary big talk.
at big talk, n.
[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 10 Aug.2/4: Blast my buttons if that farm ain’t the talk of the whole entre country.
at blast, v.1
[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 10 Aug.2/4: You have got the natural stuff and materials in you for the makin of a bully good farmer.
at bully, adj.1
[US] Opelousas Courier (LA) 10 Aug.2/5: But by gollys you jest ought to come down and ride around [...] and see the crops me and Buck are growin’.
at golly!, excl.
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