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However if the black person gets too upperty and forge ahead these folks are even more vicious than the KKK and other openly biased white people.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons 2009
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However if the black person gets too upperty and forge ahead these folks are even more vicious than the KKK and other openly biased white people.
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Ernie could be heard to say that no doubt she was too upperty for the likes of them-all, anyhow.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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Boys allus gets so upperty if they thinks you're a-favorin 'of' em.
Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe
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He was a mighty proud and upperty man, but a whisper and a nudge can do the work, and little by little grandfather was pushed down and out.
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Walden he don 'say, standin' upperty an 'mighty,' We-all will share with yo ', general, bein' war is war. '
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Do you get all upperty and excited when you see a blue light?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Gold Inc. still pay Indonesian troops to put down any upperty blacks who object to us profiting from their colony?
newmatilda.com - Comments mavis 2010
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Do you get all upperty and excited when you see a blue light?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Do you get all upperty and excited when you see a blue light?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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