Examples of cotton-picking

• Indeed, she did little field-service except in times of special pressure and during the quarter of cotton-picking.

• The men do a little chopping and cotton-picking, but not enough to pay for the living of themselves and families.

• If they want better pay for their labor, why didn't they strike in the midst of the cotton-picking?

• Not able to increase his force, it was his custom to hire during the hurry of cotton-picking.

• The playwright has striven to transfer from the field to the stage a cotton-picking scene and has made a travesty of it.

• You must not, however, run away with the notion that cotton-picking is a hurried process.

• They telled me she was a good cook; and they can use her for that, or set her at the cotton-picking.

• At first cotton-picking was interesting, the fluffy bolls looking like artificial roses and the stray blossoms strangely shaped and delicately pink.

• It is left in this condition until after cotton-picking is over, whether earlier or later.

• It is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.

• When they have learned their manual alphabet tolerably well, they are placed in the field to take a spell at cotton-picking.

• All they are fit for is education for cotton-picking and dish-washing.

• It was cotton-picking time, a few months after our marriage, and, the crop being unusually large, my master sent my wife to work in the field.

• I was too late to see the cotton-picking, and too early for the chopping-out and hoeing, but in season to witness the preparation of the ground for planting.

• Working in tobacco, to whose culture he had been used, he could hold his hand with the best: how would it be in this new business of cotton-picking?