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  • β€œIt's some early, but this would pass for hog-killing weather.”

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Farm boys more bright in their moods than on hog-killing days.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Farm boys more bright in their moods than on hog-killing days.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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