piggin
Example Sentences
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The quiver of her face showed that she was losing her self-control, and turning away, she took the cedar piggin, and went out to milk Brindle for the last time.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
On a low shelf stood a great piggin of water, a fat yellow drinking gourd sticking out of it.
From Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young
She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
At thought of him and of this, Jeff Poindexter, reperched on his wabbly piggin, wove his furrowed brow into a closer and more intricate pattern of cordial dislike.
From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
When I gave it to Flora to fill, she said, "him name Harriet"—whether intended as a compliment to me or to the piggin I could not understand.
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Elizabeth Ware Pearson
