clay-eaters

He reports that the large slave-holders and the wretched clay-eaters are all Secessionists, but that a large middle class, people who own but few slaves and till their own fields, are mostly true to the Union, in the parts of the South he visited.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

"A very graphic picture of life among the clay-eaters and turpentine-makers."

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

The low-down class -- the clay-eaters -- on the other hand, almost always abused their prisoners, and sometimes, it is pretty certain, murdered them in cold blood.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

The low-down class -- the clay-eaters -- on the other hand, almost always abused their prisoners, and sometimes, it is pretty certain, murdered them in cold blood.

Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

Finely formed, stalwart, full-fed and well clothed, they formed the most delightful contrast with the scrawny, shambling, villain-visaged little clay-eaters and white trash who had looked down upon us from the sentry boxes for many long months.

Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

Finely formed, stalwart, full-fed and well clothed, they formed the most delightful contrast with the scrawny, shambling, villain-visaged little clay-eaters and white trash who had looked down upon us from the sentry boxes for many long months.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

Why can't you go back South and kill Congressmen and clay-eaters and let us alone?

The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

The habit sometimes becomes developed to such a wonderful extent that the victims almost rival the clay-eaters of the Amazon in gratifying their propensity.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

"If you can't convict one of these clay-eaters when you've got him dead to rights, ain't no use havin 'no justice."

The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

There are tribes of low savages who are known as 'clay-eaters.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868