It appears, by the way, that there is a saying in the Eastern Thorps: I know a shoat from a sheepdog. From Wordnik.com. [Octopus revisited] Reference
The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
He had to step over the shoat to get off the porch. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The blue shoat was on the lower step, friendly as a dog. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
James Elgen here. the hands Will & Murf Butchered a shoat. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
Pa kill uh shoat en dey bake cake en hab aw kinder ration cook up. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
The shoat stood squinting a few seconds longer and then moved off slowly. From Wordnik.com. [AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories]
Had turkey, chickens, baked shoat, pies and cake -- a table piled up full. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
They had put both pigs in it but the blue shoat jumped out and swam across. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The blue shoat was waiting for him at the corner of the house, quiet as a cat. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The shoat stood on its hind legs and put its front hooves on the side of the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
A shoat was cooked whole and brought to the table with a big red apple in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
The blue shoat came to the door and looked in at the people, to Augustus's amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Newt had all he could do to keep clear of the shoat, and his own droppings were mostly bean. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Pork and pinot is a divine combo, and this biodynamic wine shined with the shoat and its stuffing. From Wordnik.com. [Wine: Does vino or beer go better with food?] Reference
Women loved it no less -- witness the way they begged for a quarter of lamb or shoat or kid to take home. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees. From Wordnik.com. [Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler] Reference
De marster let us have some chickens, a shoat an 'a gyarden, an' 'tater patch, an' we had time off ter wuck 'em. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
This he learned in slavery days when, as a "run-away", he "knocked a shoat in the head" one summer and tried it -- proving it. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
De table was piled wid chicken, ham, shoat, barbecue, young lam ', an'all sorts of pies, cakes an' things, but nobody eat nothin much. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
This shoat was on a platform, tied with a little chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Grafter] Reference
"How did you know it was yo 'shoat -- did you mark him?". From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy Square] Reference
In the woods a shoat or a sheep or a horse lies down to die. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference
Hog jole, bilin 'hot an' steamin 'roasted shoat an' ham sliced cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] Reference
I don't like to think I'm shy when it comes to comparison with a shoat. From Wordnik.com. [Heart's Desire] Reference
They wanted to kill a shoat against the folks got home with my brother. From Wordnik.com. [A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada] Reference
I don't see why it ain't art when you can steal a shoat better than anybody else can. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Grafter] Reference
Chris'mus, en de tukkeys, en de shoat, en de poun 'cake what I ud lack ter lay in fur de ole. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee] Reference
Rube, Aleck Dearing's servant had half a shoat and Jim Bobbett, my own servant, had two ducks. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.] Reference
They form stretchers, and as they rest on supporters the sheep or shoat is stretched out flat. From Wordnik.com. [Tupelo] Reference
An 'I got no good o' that thar shoat, 'kase the bar hed him, but I hed to pay fur him all the same. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
He was -- and is, if he still exists -- just a plain little North American baby-shoat cooked whole. From Wordnik.com. [Cobb's Bill-of-Fare] Reference
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