DARKIES in Classic Quotes

1  That is-- if that old darky, Peter, will let her come.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

2  "I'll bet your pa never hit a darky a lick in his life," said Frank.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

3  He's the smartest old darky I've ever seen and about the most devoted.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

4  Stuart halted, too, and the darky boy pulled up a few paces behind them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

5  They haven't proved it yet but somebody killed this darky who had insulted a white woman.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

6  Trust an ignorant city-bred darky not to know the difference between a farm and a plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

7  Sure he's poor, but he ain't trash; and I'm damned if I'll have any man, darky or white, throwing off on him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

8  But the knowledge that they had hurt the faithful old darky with their stupid remarks fired her like a match in gunpowder.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

9  One of our darkies talked to a darky who'd seen a darky who'd been to Jonesboro, and except for that we haven't heard anything.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

10  Just day before yesterday, I saw Mrs. Merriwether and Miss Maybelle and their old darky woman out collecting brick in a wheelbarrow.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

11  If you can find a darky just in from the country who hasn't been spoiled by the Freedmen's Bureau, you'll have the best kind of servant possible.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

12  And sometimes, late at night, I hear him calling her and I get out of bed and go to him and tell him she's down at the quarters with a sick darky.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

13  She knew it was beneath the dignity of quality white folks to pay the slightest attention to what a darky said when she was just grumbling to herself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  He's a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it's not for any darky to talk impudent about him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

15  Soon she was a familiar sight on Atlanta's streets, sitting in her buggy beside the dignified, disapproving old darky driver, a lap robe pulled high about her, her little mittened hands clasped in her lap.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

16  She is going to have a difficult time, even in the best of circumstances--very narrow in the hips, as you know, and probably will need forceps for her delivery, so I don't want any ignorant darky midwife meddling with her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

17  Everybody has been talking about it ever since the surrender and criticizing the blockaders severely, and when the Yankees arrested Captain Butler for killing this darky they must have heard the rumor, because they've been at him to tell them where the money is.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII