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 Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

There was a piggin on one side of her to receive the quartered fruit, and on the other a white oak splint basket, already half full of the spiral parings.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Go, every petticoat of you, and every child large enough to tote a piggin.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

"I suppose you have forgotten me," King said, as he put his valise on a wash-bench by a tub of suds and a piggin of lye-soap.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

Bless yer soul, D'rindy, they hed a hole ez big ez that thar piggin, afore I thunk ennything 'bout'n it.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles