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  • Take a dollar a month out of your employees 'wages for medical services and I'll look after them and put up some kind of a jimcrow hospital in case they get too bad to lie in the bunk-house on the works.

    The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Thus it continyoos ontil thar comes a evenin 'when a jimcrow marshal, with more six-shooters than hoss sense, allows he'll apprehend

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Jennie's forever hectorin 'an' pesterin 'Dave about Enright Peets; an' beyond that she don't pay no more heed, an 'don't have him no more on her mind, than if he's one of these yere little jimcrow ground-owls you-all sees inhabitin' about dissoloote an 'permiscus with prairie-dogs.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Thar's a jimcrow Mexican plaza not three miles off in the hills.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • a centre shot on the admiration of the squaws an 'wake the envy of rival bucks, can lay on the pigments, so he paints away at his face, careful an' acc'rate, sizin 'up results meanwhile in a jimcrow lookin' glass.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • "'An' it's to be deplored, 'says Enright, when he makes the presentation speech to Holliday,' that you-all don't have this weepon when you cuts loose at Collins instead of said jimcrow derringer.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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