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βIt's some early, but this would pass for hog-killing weather.β
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Farm boys more bright in their moods than on hog-killing days.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Farm boys more bright in their moods than on hog-killing days.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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While Dad and I were sitting there waiting for something to happen, I kept thinking about the time I saw a big black man take a little pig out of his pen at hog-killing time down South.
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965
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Hence hog-killing was a festival as joyous as Christmas -- and little less sacred.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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