Encumbered with the "piccaninny," and wearied with the long ceaseless struggle through the sand, Colin lingered behind his companions. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
These, of all sizes, from the "piccaninny" to the "good-sized chunk of ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Brave would be the man or woman or piccaninny who would trust to the beach when it had been announced by the mystery-men that it was reserved for the ghost. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek with dismay. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lucy continued to smile as the piccaninny passed from the squealing to the squalling phase. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Every black grinned like “Debil-debil,” for there was not one but knew that the perfidious Ned, and Lucy and the giddy piccaninny had eaten the pigling. ❋ Unknown (2003)
George ignored the piccaninny, but took the pigling to his heart, ever and anon assuring the community that very soon it would be fat and tender. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Far up in a recess of this cavity a toy boomerang was found, placed there by some provident but forgetful piccaninny. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They declared that while they had slept a piccaninny ❋ Unknown (2003)
Ned gloomy and thoughtful by becoming the mother of a piccaninny, about a span-and-a-half long, the colour of a tan shoe, with whitish soles to its feet, and hands and fingers so crumpled and soft, and of such tender hue, that they might have been the unfolding frond of a tree-fern. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They knew, too, that from the bark band across his forehead was slung a dilly-bag big enough to hold a captured piccaninny for breakfast, if the sleepy Too-gan failed to waver within range of his spear. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Never was any piccaninny bold enough to think of Billy Too-gal as other than a terrifying phantom with a yearning for bait of most distressing kind, until You-an-linga — a dreamy little girl — dreamt a strange dream. ❋ Unknown (2003)
All scornfully out-voted him, and to this day the blacks assert that “a piccaninny debil-debil” so closely resembles a flying-fox that none but a black boy can tell the difference. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Just as George had become reconciled to the loss of the pigling the piccaninny vanished — not alone either. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If, said they, he was ever lucky enough to snap up a plump piccaninny — girl preferred — he would cut her to pieces with a shell-knife and use her for bait. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The other mystery-men knew that they had been trapped by a piccaninny, and were sage enough to keep silent. ❋ Unknown (2003)
From the appearance of the camps, and the age of the islander who took part in the various searches, and who was ready to admit that though pearl-shell hooks were used when he was a piccaninny he had never seen one made, I judge the age of these relics of a prehistoric art to be between thirty and forty years. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They also pricked their ears when the piccaninny began to wail above a whisper. ❋ Unknown (2003)
