"Jim crow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Wilmot had time to reply, Mr. Edson called out, "Halloo! Just in time, Wilmot!" Then rushing to the door he screamed, "Ho! Jim Crow, you jackanapes, what you ridin' Prince full jump down the pike for? Say, ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... Professor Jim Crow came to offer advice, but changed his mind. As for Little Jack Rabbit, he looked out from behind a ...
— Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures • David Cory
... candies, or other confections; and you are, sometimes, quite free in sharing them with your friends. Burnt almonds, sugar almonds, Jim Crow's candied fruits, macaroons, etc. These are not to be had for nothing; and besides their cost they are a positive injury to the stomach. You, of course, know to what extent you indulge this weakness of appetite. ...
— After a Shadow, and Other Stories • T. S. Arthur
... they have to be pretty keen and sly to get the best of Mr. Crow in the end. Mr. Crow has his good points as well as his bad ones, and he helps Farmer Green a lot more than he injures him it is said. Nevertheless, Farmer Green does not figure that way,—and in justice to old "Jim Crow," you should read of his adventures ...
— The Tale of Cuffy Bear • Arthur Scott Bailey
... rides in a palace car, And the Negro rides "Jim Crow." To damn the other with bolt and bar, One creepeth so low; so low! And it's, oh, for a master's nose in the mire, While the humbled hearts o'erflow! Well I know whose soul grows big at this, And ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson
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