piccaninny

Encumbered with the "piccaninny," and wearied with the long ceaseless struggle through the sand, Colin lingered behind his companions.

The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

These, of all sizes, from the "piccaninny" to the "good-sized chunk of

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

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.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek with dismay.

My Tropic Isle 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.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 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.

My Tropic Isle 2003

The piccaninny of the remote past chuckled gleefully as the jerked leaf returned to it.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

They declared that while they had slept a piccaninny

My Tropic Isle 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.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 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.

My Tropic Isle 2003