cotton-fields

He was dead right, and the tirade of protest and appeal and raving refusal died on my lips: I could submit, or be shipped south to the gallows - or worse still, the lonely Alabama plantation where Mandeville's swine of a husband had planned to have me worked to death in the cotton-fields.

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Farther out were lazy cotton-fields where even the workers seemed intangible shadows lent by the sun to the earth, not for toil, but to while away some age-old tradition in the golden September fields.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

Outside it played its heavy tremolo over olive roads and fallow cotton-fields, back of which ran a ragged line of woods broken with eminences of gray rock.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

He was dead right, and the tirade of protest and appeal and raving refusal died on my lips: I could submit, or be shipped south to the gallows - or worse still, the lonely Alabama plantation where Mandeville's swine of a husband had planned to have me worked to death in the cotton-fields.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

He was dead right, and the tirade of protest and appeal and raving refusal died on my lips: I could submit, or be shipped south to the gallows - or worse still, the lonely Alabama plantation where Mandeville's swine of a husband had planned to have me worked to death in the cotton-fields.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

They were all stout, healthy, and happy-looking, and in answer to my comments on their appearance, the native said that the negroes on the turpentine-farms are always stronger and longer-lived than those on the rice and cotton-fields.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Gentle undulations of friendly hills seemed now to creep by; and through their openings she caught glimpses of cotton-fields.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

Southern cotton-fields will whiten with heavier crops than human chattelism ever produced, and the mountains of both latitudes, now hardly notched with civilization, will roll down the wool of sheep in clouds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

'Do you think the white could labor as well as the black, on the rice and cotton-fields?'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It is heard of on the cotton-fields of Texas, in the cane-brakes of

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various