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Examples
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Ain't it strange that a piece o 'caliker'll outlast you and me?
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"Fancy Charlie Sloane in a 'caliker' apron and a 'sunbunnit,'" giggled
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And I says, 'Well, you see to it that Sally Ann gits app'inted to help judge the caliker quilts.'
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And some folks can build churches and schools and hospitals to keep folks in mind of 'em, but all the work I've got to leave behind me is jest these quilts, and sometimes, when I'm settin 'here, workin' with my caliker and gingham pieces, I'll finish off a block, and I laugh and say to myself, 'Well, here's another stone for the monument.'
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Crawford said she sent Sarah Jane a bundle o 'caliker once by Sam, and
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I never had so many caliker dresses that I didn't want one more, for in my day folks used to think a caliker dress was good enough to wear anywhere.
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Mrs. GREEN would like to borrow a new fashioned caliker dress pattern of
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I'm tired o 'seein' the ministers walk up into the pulpit in their slick black broadcloths, and their wives settin 'down in the pew in an old black silk that's been turned upside down, wrong side out, and hind part before, and sponged, and pressed, and made over till you can't tell whether it's silk, or caliker, or what.'
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MARIAR bought a ticket in a church lottery, and drew a new fast collers caliker.
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The Lord sends us the pieces, but we can cut 'em out and put 'em together pretty much to suit ourselves, and there's a heap more in the cuttin 'out and the sewin' than there is in the caliker.
madmouth commented on the word caliker
countrified rendition of calico. Also sunbunnit
May 26, 2009