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  • In the main they're a lazy, vagabond, poor-white sort, who do nothing else but skin the soil and move, skin the soil and move.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • The availability of the ancient cypress trees, the alluvial soil that was among the most fertile in the world, the untapped oil and natural-gas domes that had waited aeons for the penetration of the diamond-crusted Hughes drill bit, and, most important, the low cost of black and poor-white labor seemed like the ultimate fulfillment of a corporate dream that only a divine hand could have fashioned.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • The availability of the ancient cypress trees, the alluvial soil that was among the most fertile in the world, the untapped oil and natural-gas domes that had waited aeons for the penetration of the diamond-crusted Hughes drill bit, and, most important, the low cost of black and poor-white labor seemed like the ultimate fulfillment of a corporate dream that only a divine hand could have fashioned.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • The availability of the ancient cypress trees, the alluvial soil that was among the most fertile in the world, the untapped oil and natural-gas domes that had waited aeons for the penetration of the diamond-crusted Hughes drill bit, and, most important, the low cost of black and poor-white labor seemed like the ultimate fulfillment of a corporate dream that only a divine hand could have fashioned.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • The availability of the ancient cypress trees, the alluvial soil that was among the most fertile in the world, the untapped oil and natural-gas domes that had waited aeons for the penetration of the diamond-crusted Hughes drill bit, and, most important, the low cost of black and poor-white labor seemed like the ultimate fulfillment of a corporate dream that only a divine hand could have fashioned.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • A mentally disturbed girl reading a textbook called Human Development in a doctor's waiting room suddenly throws the book at the head of a garrulous middle-class woman who holds herself above "poor-white trash" ( "Revelation").

    The Parables of Flannery O'Connor Oates, Joyce Carol 2009

  • By the early 1930s most practicing midwives were black or poor-white granny midwives working in the rural south.

    Men Made The World delagar 2007

  • By the early 1930s most practicing midwives were black or poor-white granny midwives working in the rural south.

    Archive 2007-09-01 delagar 2007

  • He used to sell fire and accident and term life insurance from door to door in black and poor-white neighborhoods, and was infamous for both his sweaty enthusiasm and his carnival sales rhetoric.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He used to sell fire and accident and term life insurance from door to door in black and poor-white neighborhoods, and was infamous for both his sweaty enthusiasm and his carnival sales rhetoric.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

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