| 单词 | cotton |
| 例句 | That was Sea Island cotton the slaver had ordered for his rows, but scattered among the seeds were those of violence and death, and that crop grew fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When I crossed the highway at the edge of town, the pavement turned to gravel, and I crunched along about a mile past the cotton gin until I came to the Rydells’ beat-up shack. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z On the platform are men in work caps, women in worn cotton dresses, weary grandmothers embracing grandchildren who were babies before the war. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, and these created the first fruits of the American garden. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She wiped big tears from the corners of her eyes with the tip of a cotton glove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Within a couple of hours the vineyards gave way to cotton fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked at her through the sagging screen that had a fluffy ball of cotton stuck in the middle to scare the flies away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The plants were about three feet tall and partially hidden between their dry brown leaves were many cotton bolls. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The front of her thin cotton shirt was cold, damp with the tears that streamed from my eyes until, red and sore, they ran dry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Father’s plan was different; he wanted Harry to be a businessman and one day take over the cotton gin and the pecan orchards and join the Freemasons, as he had. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Cut trees, cane; plowed till he could hardly lift his arms; plucked chickens and cotton; hauled lumber, grain, quarry rocks and stock. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The field hands knew indigo, tobacco—cotton, of course—but corn was its own beast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Over by the cotton mill, I would see men drawing a map in the street with a stick to show where they had bought some new land for cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A red cotton scarf over her stringy yellow hair, the same texture and shade as her daughters’, is always tied at the back of her neck. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He had gone over to Klein’s, looking up some cotton broker whom he wished to see in regard to securities, exchanges, stocks, bonds, or something of the sort, Madame Ratignolle did not remember what. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hear tell they don’t pick cotton up there. How the people live then?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I smoothed out the cotton tunic and unbuttoned my trousers to tuck the tassels in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I stared at a jar of cotton balls on the metal table. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Somebody had planted blue morning- glories below each of the four wide windows, and the vines of the blue flowers were climbing cotton strings that had been nailed to the window frames. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A brown-skinned girl in a cotton gown got up and stretched her arms above her head and yawned. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I got cotton in my brain. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Would that he could fit an entire field of cotton in the display and had the budget for a dozen actors to work it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The young Mao in the painting wore a long cotton gown and cloth shoes, and he carried an umbrella under his arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, I left a pair over there, and here is only one,” said Meg, looking at the gray cotton glove. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z But the more cotton was sprayed, the more bollworms appeared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The flight engineer latched the door and handed out wads of cotton to stuff in our ears, and the behemoth chopper lumbered into the air with a head-splitting roar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It crackled softly, like a tiny fire, as she pushed, and it clung to her skin and clothes like a spiderweb clings, like white cotton candy. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Sucking in her breath, Lupita nervously fingered the skirt of her faded cotton dress. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I wake to truck motors, the noise of the cotton pickers, the hollers to hurry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Squatting in a cane field, stooping in a cotton field, kneeling by a river bank, they had carried a world on their heads. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa explained that the flowers would close and form hard green bulbs which, in turn, would open to become cotton bolls. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Placing clean cotton bandages between them to prevent breaking. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The land around the town of Nzara held rich plantations of teak and fruit trees and cotton. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a big bite of cotton candy. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Some of them were farmers I recognized from when we delivered our cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a wad of cotton from my pocket, hold it to my face. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We didn’t have a spinning wheel, so she used a drop spindle to make thread out of the clumps of clean cotton that Grandma Charity and I pulled. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Best to measure time now with one of the Randall plantation’s cotton scales, her hunger and fear piling on one side while her hopes were removed from the other in increments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The sound of the empty cotton sacks dragging over the floor and the murmurs of waking people were sliced by the cash register as we rang up the five-cent sales. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Connelly transferred them from the yard to the cotton fields the same day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A patchwork of sheep-speckled fields spread across hills that rose away to meet a high ridge, where a wall of clouds stood like a cotton parapet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For days, when I got home from school, I found Papa lying flat and complaining about not being able to pick cotton because his back was killing him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She hugged herself as the cold February air blew through her cotton bathrobe. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “We picked cotton, chopped wood, plowed. I never knew what it was to fold my hands. This here is as close as I ever been to watching my hands do nothing.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton brassiere stretched down to her hipbones, where it met the girdle into which she had already squeezed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “You got fast fingers from picking strawberries and cotton.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She was carrying two laundered and folded cotton bedspreads. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Each utterance seems to rise from the aural cotton for Werner’s ears alone, then melts away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z How maddening it was to have been bom in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all dressed alike, in either denim jackets or the big, black loose cotton tunics that reached to their hips and had wide, winglike sleeves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His body felt insubstantial, like he was made of helium and cotton candy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Asked me to set the cotton when you’re ready, with your permission.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The wind was whipping the cotton trousers around my legs and I looked for some place where the sand wouldn’t kick into my eyes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a ragged blue cotton jacket with a red cloth, pincushion-like charm around his neck which was supposed to keep him from getting smallpox. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cattle and cotton no longer held any allure for him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Large, light, cotton ball flakes gently sifted through the air, blanketing the campus in a kind of idyllic innocence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Pong was nearly naked, wearing only the thin cotton underwear from the temple, which was almost transparent when it got wet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She saw some bottles, some white cotton wool, and a carton of milk, but before she could see any more Dustfinger closed the bag. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The Housing Authority was headed by a former cotton mill executive named Carvie Oldham, who ran public housing with the same autocratic and ruthless style that had marked his tenure in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She wears a striped cotton tunic and long skirts, a bundle tied across her back with a long scarf. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Across the street from the school stretched acres of cotton fields, the raw material for Monroe’s mill and the source of income for many county residents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And a man’s work shirt, cotton flannel, and boys’ tennis shoes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Monday morning, after getting Mama’s blessing, I headed for school, which was only about a mile from the cotton labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Grace gripped her pen and wondered when Max had become such a weakling, with a spine made out of cotton candy. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I think about how excited all my friends have been about the cotton candy and the dunk tank, and how hard everyone has been working to prepare. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I began to cream my hands each night, sloshing lotion all over them and sleeping in a pair of my mother’s worn white cotton gloves—perhaps the pair she was married in. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, like some giant of doom, the enormous Trunchbull strode into the room in her green breeches and cotton smock. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z And I said, “Can’t afford no air-conditioning. Them things eat current like a boll weevil on cotton.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One of the most destructive enemies of cotton is the bollworm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z With a sigh, he settled on a pair of cotton pj’s. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was like a circus and a carnival mixed together, except with no animals and no rides, though you could definitely buy light-up swords and cotton candy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Turns out that she had been living there with her mother picking cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them lie on cotton blankets, wearing sunglasses and eating potato chips. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z No reporter ever cottoned on to her fib, but the newspaper coverage rattled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He bought me a suitcase and some clothes, mostly long-sleeved shirts, dress pants, and traditionally waxed, colorful cotton suits with intricate embroidery on the collars, sleeves, and hems of pants. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The cotton harvest was looming, so I considered the issue of the short hoe, which still raged through our part of the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And Gram, sitting by the stream in her long cotton dress, her face lifted toward the sky, listening. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She pulled the white cotton in tight, pulled her legs to her chest, made herself as tiny as possible. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Soon all the cotton in the room was gone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At the barn, Billy showed him how to fix a ball of cotton on a stick, with which to swab out the breathing hole when it became clogged with mucus. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached out and I felt chills on the back of my neck as her nails slid over my cotton shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The girl pulled the rough cotton tunic over Dany's head and helped her into the tub. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They met by the cotton after the village quieted down. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His own was the flimsiest cotton, and tender in every fiber from long wear. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He then picked up his empty cotton sack and flipped it over his left shoulder. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Six large woolly, fluffy cotton balls, each about two feet across, rolled silently out onto the floor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In the southern states peanuts are usually grown in rotation with cotton, on which BHC is extensively used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was wearing a light, cotton dress of light-brown and dark-brown squares, and her hair was braided tightly all around her head. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z First, I pulled a striped green seersucker for my center pentagon, put a piece of strawberry-print cotton on the longest side, and kept going until I had my own perfectly mixed-up square. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z By the 1950s, small cotton farming was becoming increasingly less profitable, even with the low-wage labor provided by black sharecroppers and tenants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And yet, by 2100 BCE, the Hohokam peoples of that area had traded for, and were cultivating, corn, beans, squash, and cotton. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, that doesn’t scare me. I been picking cotton since I been four years old.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Overstuffed pillows, fluffy bath mats, floral-print shower curtains, pastel comforter sets, four-hundred-thread-count cotton sheets, and dishes, all in the calm shades of baby nurseries. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Minority parents had to get up before the sunrise to till your land, pick your cotton, clean your house, and get their children ready for school, then walk to work. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Both sisters were dressed in cotton pants under long-sleeved tunics that came to their knees. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Naked but for a white cotton breech-cloth, a boy of about eighteen stepped out of the crowd and stood before him, his hands crossed over his chest, his head bowed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy Buck stood up from the box and surrendered the cotton swab. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour later she was lying on her canopy bed in the clean white cotton nightdress which Betty had found for her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The white cotton curtains are shielding us from the early sunlight. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It sort of sickened me to notice his nipples, hard and erect, under the thin white cotton. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Sneaking into a cartload of cotton and leaping to the road outside New Orleans. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As soon as summer comes around, her family whips out these loose cotton tunics in colorful designs that her grandma sends from abroad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z With a sigh of satisfaction the boy set stones and crucible aside, and wiped the sweat from his hands upon his cotton kilt. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Zach said the farmers had planted and harvested their cotton early this year because of the boll weevil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With some of that new land in cotton, we had some extra to take to the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She still had on her hijab and her work clothes, dark, long, loose pants and a brown cotton tunic top. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The military pants and shirt that Shin found were far too big for him, as were the cotton shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It had to be something to do with the cotton trade, although it was odd that it wasn’t addressed to the gin. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the doorway, she was wearing a white cotton nightgown that fell to her thigh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle C wriggled in the water, his cotton getting even heavier now, and spat sap out of his mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Everyone is waiting for the same thing, for the cotton bolls to open. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had drawn the red cotton curtains against the bright, cloudy sky, which gave the room a fiery glow at odds with the rest of the airy, light cottage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We're given soft traveling dresses made of cotton and chambray and voile and gauze. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fields of wheat and cotton and grazing animals. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z All sounds were muted, as if I had a wad of thick cotton in both ears or was shut up in a padded closet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When I woke, my head felt as though it had been stuffed full of cotton, and my mouth tasted of rancid honey. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I told you I have good suits, cotton ones,” I said, but he began to complain. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Her nipples, every goose-bump on the areolae, were visible momentarily, dark against the white cotton. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She showed me how to pull the cotton apart, but just right so it didn’t tear. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z May came in with witch hazel and cotton balls and began to clean up Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s young men wearing colorful dashikis and white cotton kurtas and concert T-shirts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, you’re right. All the desis in America have regular meetings about being more Gandhi-like, and we spin our own cotton, too. And all the Arabs here know how to ride camels, right?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Now we will go in,” she said, and annoyed Jane and Michael very much by lingering at the Haberdashery counter and taking great trouble over the choice of a reel of black cotton. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z There’s always a box full of cotton in the school’s steeple so’s you can stuff your ears whilst you’re ringing the bell. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Now I knew he didn’t have cotton to sell, but he looked like one of those travelers that was selling something. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been so busy learning to pick cotton that I had forgotten all about him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I would pull out a handful of cotton from the bale. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Captain covered her with a cotton blanket. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I rip the canvases into shreds, breaking them into parts—cotton, linen, glue, and aged hemp. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Shee-oot. That Billups tried to wipe his shoes on it and I told him, I said, Chico, if Mississippi don’t have cotton, hell, Mississippi don’t have nothing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Quickly he covered the whole wound with a large cotton compress and jerked his hand away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The old man has brought a canvas tool bag that holds caulking irons and a big wooden mallet, and a coil of fluffy white cotton. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of Negroes surrounding me, they were hands in the fields, who chopped the cotton, who worked the roads, who sawed the lumber to make our houses. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A few days before Christmas, Papa decided to move from the cotton labor camp in Corcoran and look for work elsewhere. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z More slaves led to more cotton, which led to more money to buy more land to farm more cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After a while she rose and smoothed the front of her cotton dress. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did a giant barf cotton candy in here or what?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “But I’ll tell you right now the yard- master don’t cotton to riding the rails. A fellow got killed last week and we shut down for the morning. You picked the wrong station, boy.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A very small boy, in a cotton sun suit, was standing close by, on her right, purely in an observer’s capacity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Up front, under a thin layer of white cotton, her breasts jutted out a bit more. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When the rough cotton pokes were filled, our hands clawed raw and our hair and shoulders tufted with white, we believed we’d done our part. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He does as they do, sitting on a folding chair, a cotton cap on his head, applying sunblock at intervals to his arms, reading, falling asleep after barely a page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now he opens his own trunk and selects a white cotton shirt and flannel waistcoat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "I thought that was a cotton sack. Where'd he get that thing?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I still ironed their cotton slips and their dresses but they had to hang their clothes and polish their own shoes, and that was always a mess. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The women were especially elegant in their beautiful patterned cotton skirts, dresses, shirts, and lappei—a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist—and extravagant head wraps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I wasn’t surprised to learn my great-aunt, like her sister, preferred her cotton sheets lightly starched and didn’t trust the feel of permanent press fabric. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton gin meant bigger cotton yields and the iron tools to harvest it, iron horseshoes for the horses tugging the wagons with iron rims and parts that took it to market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I held the cotton shells steady from underneath with my left hand while I picked the bolls with my right hand and piled them on the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to eat through the thin cotton fabric of his sleeve. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Dari grinned and ducked his head as he grabbed a cotton ball. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His mother’s back made a long hump under the cotton blanket. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It was made from a piece of brilliantly colored cotton cloth. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The food section has the usual vendors selling samosas and kabob rolls, and a big cotton candy machine. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I feel safe, small, wrapped in my illness as if in cotton wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I leaned the littlest twigs together in a tiny teepee over some crumpled-up newspaper and shoved a couple of the cotton balls in. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As we approached the cotton field, Papa slowed down and parked our sputtering Carcachita on the roadside, near the cotton trailer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Or rather she doesn’t look the way she did when I last saw her, in her wide cotton skirt and barbaric bracelet, elegant and confident. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She don’t know it, but I picked cotton out there in 1931, during the Depression, when we didn’t have nothing to eat but state cheese. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Get you a railroad” and “Get you a cotton mill” was what big businessmen in Atlanta advised any town that wanted to grow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Joey offered me a bite of his cotton candy, but I said no. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A truck full of cotton rumbles by on the County Road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Did a giant barf cotton candy in here or what?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z His blue eye narrowed, a calculating look entering it, and the cotton branches began to squeeze me again as he grew even more excited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The sun was blazing down upon the ship, and the clouds were puffs of cotton in the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But far worse than this was the fact that she was still in her clothes, for she had firmly refused the offer of Mae’s spare nightgown, with its seeming miles of faded cotton flannel. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of those nights, after applying cold cream and braiding her hair, which she tied up at the end with a black cotton string, she turned from me and wept; she missed her parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The ships that had wrecked in the Graveyard took plenty of cargo down with them, and not all of it was lumber or cotton or rum. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Flinging our cotton barrier aside, Big Harm corners us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before we left Varanasi, Sass purchased a cheap white cotton sari for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Officers said that the body had been weighed down with a cotton gin pulley tied with barbed wire. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z "I got the cotton tips," said Henry, putting a cellophane package in Bud's hand. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was late January and we had just returned, a week before, from Corcoran where my family picked cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We retrieved our bags, and Mom pulled out her traditional cotton dresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The wind blew across the wolf den, shattering the heads of the cotton grass and shooting their seedlets south with the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Susan Byrd, she wore black laced shoes and cotton stockings. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue’s memory. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Down front to the right, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who only a few hours earlier had crumbled in our front yard, defeated by the cotton rows, now sat on the edges of their rickety-rackety chairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was starting to get cold, since the sweat in the little cotton compartments of my thermal underwear was turning to ice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He always kept money which he was supposed to put into a Post Office book, in a navy-blue cotton bag, inside a Lego box. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She even sent him a few new sets of clothes—simple, undyed cotton pants and shirts that she must have made on her loom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His hand crept lower still, lower, his fingernails catching in the cotton of her blouse. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The starched gauze or lace on the cotton dress irritated any embrace. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z This kaftan was sewn by the best tailors in Lkossa, made with the highest quality cotton, but...it felt wrong. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then he went to a box that had been his mother’s and drew from it a fresh suit of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z To combat the ruckus, Herbie first stuck fingers in his ears, then he tried some tiny cotton wads. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before my eyes his face lost its wrinkles, smoothing out to look like that of a much younger man, and the cotton....All the cotton in the room began to tremble. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As befit a conqueror, 8-Deer was wearing elaborate cotton armor, a ceremonial beard wig, and a cowl made from the head of a jaguar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I can weave and spin, or plait matting, but there is no money for spindle, cotton or fibre. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The water wet her blouse and the thin cotton fabric clung around the curve of her breasts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something hard and curving in a corner, wrapped in a scrap of cotton rag. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then Randall had a dream one night about a white sea that ranged as far as the eye could see and switched his crop from dependable indigo to Sea Island cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I could iron until the cotton sheet was smooth. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I hated being left by myself with him while they went off to pick cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When particulate matter in the atmosphere was sufficient, light from the ground got trapped and reflected back, and the entire Detroit sky would become the soft pink of cotton candy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then I saw the same style in lime-green cotton with tiny white polka dots. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z In the end the growers were faced with the unpleasant truth that their cotton yield would have been greater had they saved themselves the trouble and expense of spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And new bales of cotton kept arriving on the wharves at Alexandria every day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The meds might have worked if I dosed them the way I was supposed to, but they made me feel like I was packed in cotton. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But then he heard the sound of two jars breaking against the brick walls of the deserted cotton warehouse beside the general store. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was heavy cotton, a day dress with a square neck and a full skirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She is dressed in a striped cotton tunic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But they needed food to work and the cotton demanded the punishment be brief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He spotted a huge bale of cotton floating close by. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Like Louisiana cotton. Except the black men picking it wear diapers and turbans. All over India that’s all you see. Bushes with little bitsy white tea bags blossoming. Right?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The maxi would be cotton, of course, sewn by village women in the Sundarbans who fiercely protect our Bengal tigers from poachers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Rit drew the baby closer to her side, thinking, field hand, hot sun and long rows of cotton and the overseer’s whip. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I raised my nightshirt and showed her my black cotton panties, the same type that we had both been wearing since the day our father died. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Not only is the fabric much silkier and shinier than the plain cotton ones I used to wear, but now my breasts fill the space inside. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a jacket and pantaloons made of heavy cotton, quilted and padded—the warmest of garments. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The fields are brown and crisp with dead cotton stalks, defoliated so the machines can get to the bolls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Finally, she pulled out my dark blue cotton dress. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Bitter asked as Jam climbed into the bed and slid her legs between the cotton sheets. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When he came back, he had a hammer, a jar of nails, a bag of cotton balls, a bottle of iodine, and some Band-Aids. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The pigtailed maid was a broad-shouldered girl with the thick arms of a cotton loader. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She sits on a daybed at the O’Toole Boardinghouse, her feet propped up on a pillow, a pillow of cotton between each toe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She muttered and prodded me all the way back to the house, “Little girl chopping cotton. White girl chopping cotton. Tate girl chopping cotton. Lord help me.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her mother and Esi, a recently married friend, sat on the ground, spinning cotton threads for yarn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the little cotton fluffs that were building up along the sidewalk and swirling erratically past my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Twig handed me a drawing of an egg covered in cotton balls. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Norma said as she tried on a girl’s cotton slip with embroidered flowers across the chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The bland bread was fluffy, tender, and dissolved on his tongue like cotton candy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She zipped up her hoodie just as Rishi buttoned up his coat, both of them retreating a little farther into the warmth of fleece and heavy cotton. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What happened in Flint Creek, flowing through 50 miles of Alabama cotton country before emptying into Wheeler Reservoir, was typical of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She loosened the ribbon that held the old light blue cotton skirt around her waist and let it drop past her knees. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Kaede straightened, brushing off her dirty hands on her cotton trousers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As usual, when it was time for bed, Papa folded his cotton sack to use as a pillow. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Eudora Green, when she broke her hip, went on your list, up walking in a week. Isaiah fell off the cotton truck, on your prayer list that night, back to work the next day.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the Surinamese cotton plant, she wrote, “The Indians put its green leaves on wounds in order to cool and heal them.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All morning, Mother’s been following me around with a new hair-straightening thing while Daddy’s been on the front porch growling and goddamning the cotton fields because they’re melting like summer snow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Something rustled in the mountain of cotton, and a withered hand, with nails black and sharp, rose feebly out of the white fluff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It’s dark out, and she’s wearing a white cotton blouse with a wind jacket over it—Johnny’s blue- checked one. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then one day of light, fresh rain, four dry, hot and clear, and all of Palestine was downy with the cleanest cotton they’d ever seen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He could reimburse the government for all the people and property he had destroyed and still have enough money left over to continue buying Egyptian cotton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It pushed their dresses into the creases of their behinds, then lifted the hems to peek at their cotton underwear. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Soon he seemed to be striking a wet wad of cotton, of some damp substance whose only life was the jarring of the brick’s impact. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z From his shirt pocket Sticky took out a thin piece of cotton cloth and polished his spectacles with it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z For her services, Bibi received no income but was given meals, provisions, and sufficient meters of cotton at every October holiday to replenish her wardrobe at an inexpensive tailor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Jam put her hands in her pockets, grounding herself in the soft cotton. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Child, there's a way to comb this cotton. If we are going to have cloth for this winter, you better pay attention.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then you womp on the chisel with the wooden mallet and drive the cotton home. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z All the gravel was picked out of the cuts and grazes, bit by tiny bit, with cotton wool and a bowl of water, warm and clouded like an opal with Dettol. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When I am cooled down, I raise my head and spot a small cotton field in the distance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the boxes were filled with silks and with cottons and with fragrant tobacco, so fragrant that the smell of it leaked through the wood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He fumbled around in it for silk thread but, unable to find any, decided that cotton would be fine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the clothing section of the store—it is on the rear right as you come in—I picked out a pair of sneakers my size and two shirts, one cotton, one flannel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They had cushioned the egg in cotton balls and placed it into a ziplock bag full of Lucky Charms cereal. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Because we got paid three cents a pound, most ranchers did not let us pick cotton when it was wet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her brain felt stuffed with cotton, no room for anything else. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He felt let down and helpless, packed like a bird’s egg in the cotton of his father’s ambition for him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you sell your cotton to the government?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But that didn’t keep them from hauling for Grandpa’s big warehouse—delivering to the mill or depot when farmers who stored their cotton with us finally sold it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z From this he drew a flat rectangular package, and he undid the plain cotton cloth about it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Their shoulders were broad and bare, their hips narrow and wrapped in cotton shentis of purest white. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Turning on her side, she curled into a ball and buried her face in her pillow, soaking the cotton. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He says he will turn his back, and does so, and I take off my shoes and stockings and my cotton underpants and slide the feathers on, under the tent of my dress. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several girls of sixteen, voluptuous, happy creatures who thought school something of a holiday from chopping cotton and feeding livestock. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His hair has been combed hard to one side, and his loose cotton shirt has bunched up behind his shoulders so that his collar is skewed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She had trouble finding the brilliantly colored pieces of cotton cloth she needed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was carrying a bundle wrapped in faded cotton, which she laid at Mrs. Coulter’s feet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But Momma left for Arkansas without me with her solid air packed around her like cotton. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Halfway to the house, I saw her reach down and gather the long cotton skirt in her hand and dab at her eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Milo knows the black market. There’s no demand for cotton.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On the day they left, she remembers being on the plane and worrying about just how they would fly through the clouds, before realizing that clouds were not like cotton balls at all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Her shirt was bunched under her armpits, exposing her white cotton bra, and her head was turned to the side, her eyes squeezed shut. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I swiftly removed the cotton and checked the second layer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then she slipped a decoy over the back of her own head and picked up the empty pail and a cotton undervest of Neel’s. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I wandered up and down the cotton rows looking for arrowheads or lost tools or anything I could find in the furrows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z She has her sleeves rolled up, and I see the hint of a tattoo peeking out from under the white cotton of her button-down shirt. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The chilly air tingled her nose and she noticed that the cotton grasses by the pond were seeding out into white puffs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked at a desk in a room piled with cotton cloth at the back of the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she slammed the door, a wedge of white cotton dangled from the door onto the wet pavement and an engine roared to life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z His father appeared to him, dressed in faded overalls, bits of cotton fibers clinging to his hair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s Uncle Lige Toy, who used to have a restaurant business feeding county prisoners, was in charge of Grandpa’s cotton warehouse, one of the biggest in north Georgia, and also the store’s cotton seed business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Forget it! Are you crazy, Ben? The way I see it, we accidentally stepped into high cotton back there. This is a real chance to pick up a little cash dough.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We loaded the sacks, climbed in, and lined up the car behind the contratistas red pickup truck, waiting for him to lead us to the cotton field that was to be picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m wary of them and dislike the changing room, where we have to put on the blue cotton bloomer-bottomed gym suits with our names embroidered on the pockets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The Charles family owned a good deal of the cotton around here, way back then. And the slaves.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Outside the town, in the fields, the cotton would pop into bolls and travel into sacks, picked this time by white hands. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I took my hands out of my pockets and started picking and piling the cotton in the furrow. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The preceding night a fog as palpable as cotton had hung suspended over Island County. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “But there is a demand for medical supplies. I can roll the cotton up on wooden toothpicks and peddle them as sterile swabs. Will he sell to me at a good price?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe you of all people fell for his cotton candy dreams.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The next day Mami brought me a couple of white cotton bras with tiny blue flowers between the cups. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What a landing party we were as we stalked about, identically dressed in saddle oxfords, long-tailed shirts, and pastel cotton pants, but all so different. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She poked sticky cotton into tiny gaps with a sliver of dassie bone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon nipped her breast through the thin cotton, but she got in at once, clutching the rucksack, and the man leaned across her and pulled the door shut. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing slightly off was his penny loafers, which were two sizes too big, but he’d stuffed cotton in the tips so that they wouldn’t slip off. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I watched the flashing past of cotton fields and cabins, feeling that I was moving into the unknown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When it rained the river overflowed and one could row a boat over cotton fields. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The most important product of irrigation was cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There’s cotton balls and Kleenex, so I could make a cloud costume, but that’s really dumb. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The room wasn’t very warm, and after a minute or two, Queenie sighed and inched herself into the cotton shirt of her men’s pajamas, still moving cautiously. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But instead of water, prodigious waves of cotton lapped around our house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She should have known better than to wear that loose shirt—a cotton one, no less. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He say he want to fight but got to stay home and nm his daddy*s cotton gin. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She found a heather-gray tunic and rubbed the soft cotton between her fingers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I was wearing a white cotton T-shirt and cotton drawstring pants that weren’t mine. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He puts his thin cotton towel under her, she lies at the bottom of his boat with his silver haul of small fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All the sound and light from Alabama disappeared because my eyes automatically shut and it seemed like my ears were stuffed with cotton. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like she was carrying a ball of cotton candy the way she was beaming. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Cotton wasn’t afraid of poor soil, but we found that we could only keep up with so much cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them wore the cotton slipperlike shoes of the Tang men, while others wore demon boots. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And the tent, that blurry bright three-dimensional A, was so foreign to the cotton field, that it might just get up and fly away before my eyes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew exactly how long it would be before the big wagons would pull into the front yard and load on the cotton pickers at daybreak to carry them to the remains of slavery’s plantations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His unpaid labor made cotton “King” and established America as a significant nation in international commerce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Checkered cotton curtains hang in the windows on thin white rods. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She brushed by Mr. Freeman as if he were made of cotton. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The first layer of white cotton was bare. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The buttons were on an outsized cotton shirt, which was what had replaced the turtlenecks now that it was warm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a dress, red velveteen with white cotton lace around the neckline and on the edge of the short, puffed sleeves. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It looked like one of those trucks that they packed Mexican workers into to haul them to pick cotton against their wills. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As we become fluent readers we file away in memory tens of thousands of common word pairs, such as horse race, hunt ducks, cotton clothing, fat people, prime number, old man, and data point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Esi picked up her basket of cotton and, with a quick wave, headed home to make her own preparations. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the same nervous energy—tapping his fingers against his trousers, brushing at his white cotton shirt, adjusting the jockey cap on his curly brown hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z No longer needed to pick cotton in the fields or labor in factories, lower-class black men were hauled off to prison in droves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But do not forget to put the cotton plugs up your noses. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Anderson himself worked on contracts, primarily in the cotton trade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They were made of cotton, spun fine and tightly woven, and felt as light as silk after wearing my dirt-encrusted homespun for so long. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My mouth feels like it's stuffed with cotton balls. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I lie on my back, fully clothed except for the healthy white cotton underdrawers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He looks off at the west cotton field where the sun is dipping into the dirt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When the cotton grass heads were gone, the winds would lift the snow from the ground to the air and she would not be able to see her feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo’s mess halls would not even help him store the cotton, and his warehousing costs skyrocketed and contributed to the devastating drain upon his cash reserves. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Kelly squeezed her from behind, grabbing the cotton arms along with George’s waist. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A rope made of South Carolina long staple cotton was displayed outside the jail. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The maneuvering in markets for oil, wheat, cotton, coffee and more have brought billions in profits to investment banks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The white cotton curtains swell and sway, the folds rippling slightly. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The hypnotic whirl of the cotton candy machine helped keep my full-on panic about our secret show at bay. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She wore her pink sweater and a white blouse and a simple cotton skirt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He now had a plantation; inside of two years he had dragged house and gardens out of virgin swamp, and plowed and planted his land with seed cotton which General Compson loaned him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless she was the kind of common girl that would wear cotton stockings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The two of them poked around in a bookshop for a while, and then Jule bought them both cotton candy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If someone bought her from her New York owners and brought her South before the Northern laws could free her, she might spend the rest of her life picking cotton. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I know what I want to express, but the pathway between my mouth and brain might as well be stuffed with cotton. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I watched the word leave his mouth, felt it fall over my face through the cotton damp with breath and mud. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Families sat crowded on the hot little porches, cotton lint from twelve hours in the mill still clinging to their hair and overalls and dresses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We stared at our twisted reflections in the mirror maze, ate powdered-sugar-dusted elephant ears, banged out our aggression on the bumper cars, and got sticky fingers from cotton candy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The doctor listened with his stethoscope and then painted a circle on his chest with a piece of cotton dipped in iodine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Master Terrance joined his guests and they departed for a tour of the cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My mouth felt as though it was stuffed with cotton. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I pulled on long cotton pants that used to be June’s and August’s white shirt, which needed the sleeves rolled up about ten turns. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were tied with small cotton ropes, and had collars made from old check-line leather. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her flustered explanation to Father was, “Whoever heard of a lion eating a cotton sari? I thought lions were carnivores.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A black man is shown waking up from sleep on a bale of cotton, symbolizing his independence from the southern economy. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A warm breeze wafts through the open windows behind my parents, shifting the white cotton curtains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sky is covered in gray cotton clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mother watches me pass a cotton dress over my head, which I have chosen for its long sleeves so I won’t have to wash my arms, and a jealousy lights her eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jackson is just as pretty in rough cotton as he is in fine silk. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Shall I give you a performance this evening—show you what the bottles, the cotton wool, and all the other mysterious things in my bag are for?” he asked without looking at her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There was the feeling of impersonal plenty when I saw a boll of cotton whose cup had spilt over and straggled its white fleece toward the earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us examine pond water for algae. Van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to have seen what you will see today. He was a wool merchant, much as I was a cotton merchant.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Instead, he spotted an old pair of cotton shoes and a worn military uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z From their dry branches dangled cotton fibers left during the first picking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Velutha dipped a thin cotton towel in an earthen pot of water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And while I waited for the prescription to be filled I picked the cotton stuffing out of an old padded chair. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bit older than me, but I had talked to him a few times at the cotton mill, before he left for the army. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius cast a pink and blue and yellow eye over the side of the bed down past his mother’s hanging slip and drooping cotton stockings. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I scooped handfuls of soggy cotton away from him, like wet sand at the beach. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Every year, for nine years, he started school sometime in January, after the cotton season was over. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The cotton twine he used for mending net bound the lantern to the mast easily, but Carl put in extra lashings anyway, figure eights laid one over the other, pulled taut and finished crisply. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Papa and Johnny had put their cotton sacks down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were plenty of wrestlers who hit the district tournament only to discover they were soft as cotton. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z This boy already knew, but he had to work in the cotton fields and pretend that he didn’t. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z May dropped her cotton ball on the table and left the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to the improvised infirmary to get a package of cotton and found some handkerchiefs, but it was soon clear that they were insufficient. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit down at the kitchen table and hum while I smear the thick pink polish all over the spoons with a cotton ball and watch it pull off the layer of black. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It’s a jersey cotton T-shirt with the logo from Elliott Smith’s Figure 8. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My cotton trousers cling to my thighs and my laded blue shirt has become embarrassingly transparent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her floral print cotton dress hung on her rail-thin body like a discarded flour sack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z If she could pick cotton, she could run. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was an elegant sport, far removed from the cotton fields and outhouses of his youth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They were small things—a cotton scarf, a book, a glass paper-weight—but whatever he brought, it was exactly what you would have picked out for yourself. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z That cold, early morning, Papa parked the Carcachita, our old jalopy, at one end of the cotton field. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would pick fabrics of bright colors and patterns and take them to the tailor to have traditional cotton dresses made for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She smacks the air with the bat so powerfully, the wind it creates ruffles the light cotton of my salwar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her cotton nightgown smelled of flowers and her breath of coffee and cinnamon. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It took nine separate burnings before the fire got down to the straw and cotton ticking of its insides. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z ON a hot Saturday in late September, the cotton fields chopped and empty, Daddy carries a new RCA color television set into the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “No fooling,” replied the contratista, adjusting the scale that hung from a tripod about three feet in front of the cotton trailer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The beds, too, had been drawn in from the wall, but they had been covered with cotton bedspreads Mrs. Glass herself had provided. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I would not have to move to Fresno to pick grapes and cotton and miss school for two and a half months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z His hands were wet, and his palms were so callused I could feel them through the cotton of my shirt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He stood at the edge of our pool, held his arms out like airplane wings, and then, wearing nothing at all but white cotton briefs, let himself fall into the cool water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Because then I blurted out, “Do you want to get some cotton candy?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Some even hold bags of cotton candy in their laps—bags! Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Frieda was on her knees; a white rectangle of cotton was near her on the ground. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Long strips of cotton fabric were hung over wooden racks so that their lower edges dipped into the water. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I turn up the lane that leads to Longleaf, my family’s cotton plantation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Only that big? It felt like a house. Look, dear,” said Faye, “open that second drawer where my medicine is. Bring the paregoric and a piece of cotton. Will you help me pack this tooth?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No little paper bag with the other dress, or a nightgown, or two pair of whitish cotton bloomers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked about how to tell if there’s oil underneath a cotton field and I talked about how the receptionist and I were the only females working for the paper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My white cotton hat and Mother’s flowery umbrella are nothing against the afternoon sun, shooting rays into my short short hair. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Setting the cotton has got me worried, because the old man says if it ain’t done right, the boat will still leak, even with new planks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I had not picked as much cotton as I had wanted to. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Outside of Greenwood, the sun cast patches of light and shadows across the cotton fields revealing a thin gray mist, unstirred by morning breezes, that clung to the tops of the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z She was wearing a bright new cotton dress, and her blonde hair was brushed out, down to her shoulders. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He was wearing shirt and trousers of coarse cotton jean—the kind of cloth the Lowell mills spit out by the mile. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The boys sat on hard benches, shivering in their mismatched shorts and cotton jerseys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z What was wrong with the clothes I planned on wearing, my cotton pants and plaid shirts and penny-loafer shoes? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “So do you grow your own cotton and make your own clothes?” she asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But here in the Smoke her mind shut off the moment her head hit the pillow, which wasn’t even a pillow, just her new sweater stuffed into a cotton bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She shed her boots, jeans, her cotton underwear, her shirt and bra, and slipped naked into the luxurious foam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They made her head feel as though it were wrapped in cotton, and turned the periphery of her vision starry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “And how much is Egyptian cotton selling for?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Ten weeks picking strawberries in Santa Maria and another eight weeks harvesting grapes and cotton in Fresno. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z ME: Not unless they smell like cotton candy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z So here I was, tying cotton to Mr. Blake's door knocker, cacking myself. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When she went to bed that night, she pressed her face into the puffy cotton pillow. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was getting harder to breathe, as though someone had thrown a cotton blanket over his head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She smells the way she always does, of Pine-Sol and cotton, Dixie Peach hair grease and something warm and powdery. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z His eyes were shut, and I knew that he was no longer behind the altar draped in white cotton, that he was somewhere else that only he and God knew about. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Their host’s father had been a member of the cotton vanguard and a savvy proselytizer of the miracle crop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He wore narrow cotton trousers, black heelless slippers, and a frogged Chinese smock. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She used her lightest pink marker for her own hair, the color of sweet and fluffy cotton candy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z No matter how hot it got, Big Ma had to iron white cotton sheets with light starch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But, like all farmers, he had to contend with high taxes, high freight rates, and land so worn out that he might spend more for guano than he could get for his cotton crop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Shadrack looked up at a balding man dressed in a green- cotton jacket and trousers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A kid sits behind the ticket wicket, his face framed by bags of pink and blue cotton candy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He put on the ratty, too-big uniform and slipped his feet into the cotton shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I found things I had never thought of before—plastic bags and cotton balls and toothpicks and straws. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Fire ants have been observed picking larvae of the boll weevil off cotton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The earth was carpeted with a silky layer of dried grass and cotton stalks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At a huge square opening in the factory wall, other men were taking bales of cotton off of a wagon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Never seen a white person pick cotton,” Cora said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the end of a song, she’d twirl suddenly showing her stout legs in dirty white cotton stockings and a flash of multicolored petticoats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It could be there still, in somebody’s backyard, but the cotton fields and the colored neighborhood around , them were churned up and pressed down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “One more question: You serious about the cotton- mouths?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The first small puffs of it, coming up like cotton balls farther down the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At dawn on Thanksgiving Day, Papa, Roberto, and I drove in our Carcachita for miles, looking for cotton fields that were being picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The miracle worked upon a worthless rag of cotton. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z On either side of me, the cotton fields are a glaring green, fat with bolls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Growing up, I had done my share of picking cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy finished the last harvest weeks ago, but the side of the road is still snowy with cotton stuck in the grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The nurse packed the tooth with foul-tasting cotton and sent her back to class. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a dark dress, unlike the other girls in their white cotton or pastel flowery prints, so she stood out like a mourner at a wedding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Inside the circle of men, the women in long dresses and ropes of beads had joined arms and were dancing around one older woman who was wearing a regular cotton dress. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Aunt Pearl sailed serenely past the nationalist rally, the three girls clustered around her like starched white tugboats escorting a blue cotton ocean liner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Tufts of hair like overgrown cotton sprouted from his head, brow, ears, and nostrils as he sat in his easy chair, mumbling about his years working the bank at a tobacco warehouse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I was so nervous and scared at that moment when everyone’s eyes were on me that I wished I were with Papa and Roberto picking cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t cotton to the idea that whitefolks could be talked to at all without risking one’s life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a cotton shirt and blue slacks, a red silk tie and shiny black loafers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On one ol those visits, we were out in the field picking cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pages rubbed against my finger-pads like cotton wool as I turned them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He held up a small wad of cotton. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z But football games were not won with noble role models and the cotton candy that college presidents liked to spin out for the media. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother normally ironed all the clothes as soon as Parvin pulled them off the clothesline—it kept the cotton kamizes from getting hopelessly wrinkled—but today the clothes still sat in their basket untouched. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I had trouble reaching the cotton bolls at the very top of the tall plants, so I leaned against the plants and pushed them over with my body until they touched the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As I watched him work I thought about how I took care of him in our Carcachita when he was a baby while Papá, Mamá, and Roberto picked cotton. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Wearing cotton armor and wooden helmets, brandishing lances, hatchets, and maces, and carrying great painted litters with effigies of their gods, the two militias marched on Mutal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath, then blew gently on the cotton in front of him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Those blades would not be cutting into cotton today, but into flesh. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Terrance traveled to New Orleans to straighten his brother’s affairs with the cotton trade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Even the pillow, with its cotton casing smelling of washing soap, is a marvel. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s ridiculously cold out, especially in a cotton dress and a cardigan. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Kate brought the bottle and pushed a little ball of saturated cotton into the tooth with the point of the nut pick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From the carpet bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z He receives a Hallmark card signed by both of his parents, a check for one hundred dollars, a navy blue cotton sweater from Filene’s. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He said cotton brought thirteen cents a pound in 1837, and when it was high, the slave traders paid as much as a thousand dollars for prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I do and the whole thing seems a lot more manageable, covered in clean white cotton. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I backtracked, trying not to scuff grit on the path, unspooling the cotton. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Like, my limbs are weird and loose, and my head’s full of cotton. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The sky looked like cotton candy as I made my way downstairs. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Alexandra had been and was still technically married to a large placid man named James Hancock, who ran a cotton warehouse with great exactitude for six days a week and fished on the seventh. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They hoped that by joining the union, they would receive better pay for the cotton they raised for their white landlords. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mother wore that same faded cotton saree every day—she needed a new one made of silk to wear on holidays. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z With soap in one hand, and potty, hairpins, panties, curlers and a wad of cotton in the other, I hurry out of the bathroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She took cotton balls out of the jar next to the sink and grabbed the bottle of peroxide. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In the mornings I get out of bed, put on my clothes, the stiff cotton waist with the garters, the ribbed stockings, the nubbled wool pullover, the plaid skirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ah, the clean shining window with cotton batting sprinkled with star dust for a carpet! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “I got to be checking at the mill and collecting for my cotton. Been nice seeing you. Welcome back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to her room, pulled out a cotton dress from the closet, and slung it over her arm. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He wants to ask the red-faced peddler, with his fingers sticking through the brown cotton gloves, if he can hold the tumbling bear for a minute, but he is afraid. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z So on that day, Wu Tsing, fearful of my mother’s vengeful spirit, wore the coarsest of white cotton mourning clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If not Allah, who else could have put such wisdom into that little humble lamb of a man from the Georgia fourth grade and sawmills and cotton patches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a large cotton blanket spread underneath them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z An average acre of cotton that year received 63 pounds of toxaphene. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He took the cotton off the eye and looked through the instrument. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Finch’s Landing was used only by travelers: the steps gave the ladies an excellent excuse to swoon; their luggage was left at the cotton landing— to debark there in front of the Negroes was unthinkable. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew then I had not yet earned my own cotton sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Caroline had tried to make the sweatshirts more appealing by sewing large Santas, bordered with glitter, on the fronts, but this only made the dingy cotton seem dingier. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the new regime, economic power passed to a new class of people: merchants who exchanged salt, chocolate, and cotton from Chichen Itza for a host of goods from elsewhere in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The smell of the garlic would make the very shopkeepers in the cloth shops raise the price of blue cotton cloth as they might raise the price for a foreigner. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then later, when the wood swells up in the water, it will press the cotton tight and keep the plank from leaking. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And then He will place His holy hand upon our heads and straightway us will be white as cotton. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The repeated pattern doubtless has to do with geography—southeastern climate and soil favor plantation crops like tobacco and cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their laughter feels so far away it’s as if there’s cotton in my ears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He say he want to fight but got to stay home and run his daddy’s cotton gin. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I haven’t seen him up past seven o’clock in ten years, when the spring cotton froze. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We followed Papa, who walked over to the cotton plants to get a closer look. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the fall there were always cotton buyers, and usually four or five drummers who would set up their merchandise in a hotel room, stay a few days, then move on to another little town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was a lot more work, but our cotton did all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pack of matches, mostly used, in one pocket, and a small shuttle of cotton twine stuffed in another. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Before climbing the steps, she wraps it around herself again, and emerges with the wet cotton clinging to her curves. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We married in September and spent our honeymoon picking cotton for the war effort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the shop is an elderly man who wears a white tunic and cotton fez. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They had carried home armloads of the seed pods, the size of peas, full of fluffy cotton when they split open. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Overhead the leaves whisked again and little puffs of willow cotton blew down and landed on the pool’s surface. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton balls were coated with Vaseline—I’d read that they were the best fire starters that you could make. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Along with yams, sugarcane, and potatoes, we grew cotton on forty acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sealed and dry inside was a box of matches, some folded-up newspaper, and a couple of cotton balls. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Farther downstream, beyond the bluff, were traces of the old cotton landing where Finch Negroes loaded bales and produce, and unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and ladies’ things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Some 60,000 acres of cotton were being grown under irrigation in the Gash Delta. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the cotton fields the wind blew idly among the snow clusters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I flung back my thin cotton sheet and stretched my arms to the ceiling and luxuriated in the chill air. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There was a small cotton pad taped to the vein. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Playing the oboe always made Marigold’s mouth dry as cotton. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z On the water the haze was so thick it was like trying to inhale wet cotton. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was still cotton to pick for a few nickels and a hunk of cornbread. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It felt good to be in the Delta again, out among the green cotton fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Fishes of the southern states have also suffered heavily from insecticides used against cotton insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But I had seen the fingers cut by the mean little cotton bolls, and I had witnessed the backs and shoulders and arms and legs resisting any further demands. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, they were measured and judged by the amount of cotton they produced. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All along the dock, there were vast pens of barrels covered with seaweed and hundreds of bales of cotton waiting for the mills. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She very often wore men’s khaki pants, a gray cotton sweatshirt, and sandals. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I asked as Amah slipped the jacket over my cotton undergarments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We wear cotton dresses to school, and cardigans, which we take off walking home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But the song was a work song Cora knew from the cotton rows, drawing her back to the Randall cruelties and making her heart thud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He would not go until the cotton season was over, and that was sometime in February. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Above, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out and squeeze the moisture from them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Later she would hunt for wild cotton to use instead of grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I doused part of the hall and then the craft room, feeling a wave of sorrow for the ruin of Gran’s beautiful cotton prints and colorful yarns. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z My black cotton hovers over me like a cloud. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My mother told me the other bag contained the most ridiculous clothes, all new: bright California- style beachwear, baseball caps, cotton pants with elastic waists, bomber jackets, Stanford sweatshirts, crew socks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so wrong that such an ordinary person in a nondescript dress and a cotton scarf around her forehead was in the middle of all this. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Grandma began pulling on her cotton work gloves and mixing the baking soda we'd got at the store with the vinegar and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The top half of him lay beneath a white heap of soggy cotton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I went off into a daydream about Zach pulling the truck over because he couldn’t see to drive for the snow and us having a snowball fight, blasting each other with soft white snow cotton. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s cotton, blue and black, sprinkled with stars and galaxies across my chest. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She is asked to remove her Murshidabad silk sari in favor of a flowered cotton gown that, to her mild embarrassment, only reaches her knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I lit the newspaper in several places, then touched the match to the cotton balls. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You’ll be astonished to learn that I am interested in the cotton market,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the Andean past, the long, puffy bolls of South American cotton, some varieties naturally tinted pink, blue, or yellow, were the soft underpinning of Andean culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They pounced on the She Elephant, and when the dust had settled, she was tied up as neatly as a bale of cotton. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z An airplane has left a thin trail of white cotton behind it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her grandmother sat at the kitchen table wearing an old striped cotton bathrobe. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “But remember,” he said firmly, “cotton bolls are like roses. They are pretty but they can hurt you.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s a winter cloak, not a cotton summer one, and it smells of mothballs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Also clothing, aspirin, antibiotics, hand lotion, thick cotton diapers, batteries for our radio, and long letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds sit quietly in the trees, and all the other creatures seem to move more gently, as if their feet are padded with cotton. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He wiped his hands on a towel as Mom dashed in the back door, her hair pulled back with a headband and her black cotton skirt swirling around her knees. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The ocean smelled weird, and so did the food they were selling on the boardwalk, like funnel cakes and cotton candy and hot dogs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt myself blush at the compliment and asked, “Where’s your cotton canvas?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I loved the carnival atmosphere that day—and especially eating cotton candy and candied apples. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There on the tiny railed stoop sat Pecola in a light red sweater and blue cotton dress. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She and her mother, they picked cotton together. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they pulled on their beautiful white stockings, that they had knit of fine cotton thread in lacy, openwork patterns, and they buttoned up their best shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You boys are not going to let a little thing like the cotton market beat you, are you?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “It would give everyone a lift to think you were more involved, Harry,” said Scrimgeour, sounding relieved that Harry had cottoned on so quickly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the afternoon she harvested wild cotton plants to use in her pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked out to our closest row of cotton, a good fifty yards from the back porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Briony prepared the tannic acid in a bowl and took the roll of cotton wool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When I wake up, I don’t feel much, but the inside of my head is fuzzy, like it’s packed with cotton balls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z One of the house servants said the trouble was due to the difference in the price of cotton. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “What about our crop? If we don’t start planting soon, the cotton won’t have time to grow.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z On both sides of the road we were surrounded by miles and miles of cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The way it works is, you shove cotton into the seam between the plank and the keel with a caulking iron, which is like a dull chisel with a wide blade. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In order to feed the world’s insatiable demand for cotton goods, he said, every picker’s daily quota will be increased by a percentage determined by their numbers from the previous harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She made for the back door, but spun around and quickly grabbed the notebook and a pencil from under her pillow, glancing briefly at a faded story about the cotton crop on the wall. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Read his name tag on the lapel of his short-sleeve blue cotton shirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Being as Mr. Sheffield owned the cotton mill, I thought she might like to see where some of his money went. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I used to bury cotton wisps in my ears, pull the blanket over my head, and still the sounds of Baba’s snoring—so much like a growling truck engine—penetrated the walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the cotton apart, and Twig and I joined him, fluffing white clouds for Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the window in Molly’s bathroom, also on the ocean side, a light cotton curtain dances constantly in the breeze, sucked toward the screen and out again, billowing toward the sink, an amiable ghostly presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z My mother pulled off the inner layer of her traditional cotton dress and used that instead. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The fake arms were filled with cotton and didn’t weigh much, but they were bulky. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Surrounding our yard lie ten thousand acres of Daddy’s cotton fields, the plants green and strong, tall as my waist. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every night now Guitar was seeing little scraps of Sunday dresses—white and purple, powder blue, pink and white, lace and voile, velvet and silk, cotton and satin, eyelet and grosgrain. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma always knew how much bark to use and how long to soak the cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pocket bulged with a bottle of Bayer aspirin and with a jagged, fist-size rock wrapped in a yellow cotton cowboy handkerchief. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing a white cotton shift, which is hiked up over her thighs; her long broom-colored hair is pulled back and tied behind her head, to keep it out of the way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton the slaves were growing became the major export for this new country. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Bailey said that the cotton up North was so tall, if ordinary people tried to pick it they’d have to get up on ladders, so the cotton farmers had their cotton picked by machines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such inordinate rage that I was told even by fellow Blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a scene which combines the worst of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolisit is mechanized Negro slavery; it represents the progress which the Negro has made from picking cotton to tailoring it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked grapes and cotton and lived in labor camps similar to the ones we lived in, like Tent City in Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I felt like something ill was festering in my stomach, and my head felt like a piñata stuffed with cotton balls. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then they scoured my head clean and tied up my hair in ringlets with cotton rags that stuck out all over like a frightful job of bandaging. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She came out from behind the register and led me to the fabric bolts, stacks of solids mixed with prints, cottons with satins, and linen with corduroys. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z After stopping at three different cotton labor camps we found one that gave us work and a one-room cabin to live in. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She told him about her childhood on Randall where she had picked cotton, tugging a sack. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I feel shielded by the herbs, by the man with the straight spine and starched cotton fez. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Boss shuffled over to where Tally was sitting, producing white cotton gloves and pulling them on. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He stuffed the remainder of the chocolate-covered cotton ball into his shirt pocket and edged his way back gingerly along the branch to the smooth gray trunk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The soft cotton on her skin still thrilled her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We decided to save it, and I carefully picked it up again and helped Bedi Ma'am put it in a box lined with cotton. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Behind the bands came a big cotton wagon draped with Confederate bunting and pulled by a double team of mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Sally’s dress was so pink and frothy, she looked like a piece of cotton candy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy’s stomach growled again as she ran her hands over the soft cotton and tucked a few shirts under her arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I look over and the old truck’s gone too, toting cotton seed somewhere in the fields. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Interspersed amid these totemic items were stray Q-tips and cotton balls, lip liners, Max Factor eye makeup, mascara, blush, and everything else I used in a losing battle to make myself beautiful. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When cotton became readily available there in the eighteenth century, it grabbed so much of the textile market that French woolmakers persuaded the government to ban the new fiber. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She wore a thin white cotton nightgown, with a high, lace neck, and a hem that swept the ground. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “An-mei, we have made your dying clothes and shoes for you. They are all white cotton.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another three hundred. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z First of all, he would go to the drawer of his desk and take out a pure-white cotton glove which he slid with much ceremony on to his right hand. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Redemption took a deep breath and smoothed his palms down the cotton of his pajama pants. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes Ifemelu imagined him in a classroom in the fifties, an overzealous colonial subject wearing an ill-fitting school uniform of cheap cotton, jostling to impress his missionary teachers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All the kiddos, everyone but me, who is horrified at this clown, jump up and down like he’s handing out chocolate-covered cotton candy, and Uncle Robert takes Shawn’s hand and starts toward the lineup. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I remembered those springs when she would wear thin cotton dresses to class and make me moan and ache in Spanish Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When he got to the top, he carefully walked to the middle of a plank that was laid across the trailer and emptied the cotton sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They ate hot dogs and milkshakes and cotton candy “I can’t wait until I don’t have to come with you to the girls’ bathroom,” he told her, and she laughed and laughed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Round white faces like an endless field of cotton bolls, all the same material. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Just the feel of his forearm beneath the thin cotton of his shirt makes me ache to kiss him again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then she held out a little bunch of flowers, a dozen or so anemones bound with a cotton thread, and began to speak in a rapid, nervous voice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The law failed to stem the cotton tide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A conductor gives them their bedding, heavy white cotton sheets and thin woolen blankets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Tab’s face was smaller without the cotton in her mouth. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Portia took off his bedroom shoes and unrolled a pair of clean black cotton socks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sitting across from Nasreen Baji in the black town car that afternoon, we drove past cotton fields, orange groves, and sugarcane fields. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A little while later she rose with an unconscious sigh and stepped lethargically into her tight cotton panties and dark skirt, then buckled on her shoes and left. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I divided them into two layers separated by cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The road to Montgomery led the marchers through cotton fields and scraggly pine thickets, across twisting rivers and creeks and into dark, gloomy swamps where dead trees draped with gray Spanish moss hugged the roadside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost forty species of cotton exist worldwide, of which four have been domesticated, two in the Americas, two in the Middle East and South Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She quilted it together from her old cotton saris, and even some that had been worn by my great-grandmother. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were poor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z C. January 11, 1937 Mi amor, The pills they watch me swallow make my thoughts stick like cotton. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere made it hard to sing about summertime and cotton and easy living, but Piper kept it up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Cartwright farm grew a lot of cotton: hundreds, maybe a thousand acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackie first, my sister says, our freshly washed hair damp and spiraling over toweled shoulders and pale cotton nightgowns. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In a year or two, we had enough cotton to trade in for some cattle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If he prophesied that the cotton in today’s field was going to be sparse and stick to the bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a hearty agreement. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z From the two booths were sold drinks and bloody brown hamburgers and cotton candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We had gone to see Mexican movies in Fresno on rainy days when it was too wet to pick cotton, but it was always with our parents. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Of course, since Morrie only wore soft cotton shirts that hung loosely on his ever-shrinking frame, the microphone sagged and flopped, and I had to reach over and adjust it frequently. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was lying on a comfortable bed with feather pillows and white cotton sheets. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Tab: ©©©©©©©© Ten minutes later, Tab was resting on Bridge’s shoulder in the waiting room, talking and crying through a mouth full of cotton while the receptionist pretended not to look at them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Clumsy with fright and haste, he dropped the cotton rag three times before he was able to wrap it about the goblet as it had been before. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Her face is an almond sheen of sweat under her white cotton turban, and her lace blouson, settled off her shoulders, reveals duplicate moles, big and black as beetles, at the base of her throat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the hard length of him and the silk of her underpants and his cotton trousers between. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I wear a cotton kerchief on my head, folded into a triangle and tied behind my ears, the front of it damp with sweat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He hands me a small bag of glowing cotton candy, and I can’t get the stuff into my mouth fast enough. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z By the middle of November the cotton fields had been picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “The cotton balls weren’t thick enough to absorb the impact.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He put on a pair of clean cotton pants, and the blue tennis shirt with the little alligator on the pocket that Mrs. Elversen had given him for Christmas. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel foolish about it now, but one time I stuffed the gloves with cotton balls and held them through the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm in arm we girls marched forward in our thin cotton dresses with all eyes upon us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the Sue Monk, Kidd color of age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I still have Willem's handkerchief tied around it, and drops of red have seeped through the white cotton. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Everywhere the crusted snow began to shine like Christmas cotton. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I said, going stiff, shrinking from the cotton’s touch while still wearing it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The skin was firm, so she pressed the cotton wool until he flinched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes, instead of the stockings, she has thin cotton socks, above which her legs rise white and sparsely haired, like a woman’s mustache. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, Alex cleaned the kitchen, scrubbing the pans and wiping down the counters and stove top with the same graying cotton rag. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Without noticing, Grandma Charity and I would have combed a big pile of cotton while Grandma Sylvie was busy turning it into ball thread. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We hold our schoolbooks up against our chests, our full cotton skirts brushing against our bare legs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the latter part of October, after the grape season was over, we left Mr. Jacobson’s vineyards in Fresno and headed for Corcoran to pick cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "Just a little. On a piece of cotton to put in my cavity. My tooth hurts something awful." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually old man Gusdorf had gotten royally skinned when the bottom fell out of cotton, and he wound up relegated to a sharecropper’s role forever after. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Hello," the woman says, her hands smoothing the lap of her cotton dress. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if all of a sudden Naheed was a giant in the room with an endless skein of cotton on her head and everyone was staring at her, and it. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Besides cotton, the new land went to potatoes and root crops for us and some more corn to feed livestock and ourselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a white dress, turquoise cotton gloves, and an emerald green turban on her head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore cotton shalwar kamizes, white, the kind some wore when attending a burial. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She fixed me up with a big white bandage around my finger so that it looked like a stick with a huge wad of cotton candy on the end. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Often when she came in after running down the hill, her cotton dress would cling to her thin body and Bailey would glue his eyes on her until her clothes dried. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hers like the cotton she seeded, weeded, and picked was hers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As we eat, Daddy and the Senator talk about cotton prices, boll weevils. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He constantly worried that we would not have enough money saved at the end of the cotton season to carry us over the winter months. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z My hands were shaking, so I stuffed them into my pockets and let Twig pick up the next egg, which was covered in cotton balls: Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t pick cotton. I work the gin house.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Their overalls and shirts seemed to be tom on purpose and the cotton lint and dust in their hair gave them the appearance of people who had turned gray in the past few hours. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to hang on to the sides, but pictured a cotton month rearing up and sinking fangs in my hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But he sneaked away to the dump and was back in a while with a strip of cotton cloth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I looked down at my belly as if Our Lord might write out the name on my cotton housedress. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated her clothes—the blue pastel cardigan, the white blouse with the collar that lay flat over the cardigan, the homemade flat, cotton skirt she wore when everybody else was wearing flared skirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She saw that she was inadequately dressed against the raw November day in a threadbare cotton dress, ragged little sweater and thin cotton stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother said that a proper lady always had a lawn and a garden; women who were not proper ladies had cotton planted right up to their windowsills. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I’m going to take you on a trip. Just you and me, Prima Donna. We’ll go way down south where the cotton blossoms blow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Millie is a lavender cotton ball in her matching sweat suit, socks, and headband. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The unsprayed cotton suffered less damage to fruits and later to mature bolls than the sprayed, and in twice-sprayed fields the yield of seed cotton dropped significantly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He's changed into a kurta and loose cotton pants. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her yellow cotton dress had gotten bunched up around her waist, and the crowd could see her white underwear. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z White hair surrounded his otherwise bald head in a nimbus and plugged his big ears like cotton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Sure not cotton,” he muttered, but the towel was soft and absorbed water much better than the thin, worn ones they used at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After checking on Trampita to make sure he was still asleep, I quietly walked over to the row nearest the car and picked cotton for the first time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The clean, sleeveless white undershirt and cotton pants his sister left for him after school were folded on her mat. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z A tank truck driver was preparing a cotton defoliant by mixing diesel oil with pentachlorophenol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I choose a blue-and-gray checked cotton, a delicate green print, and a pink paisley. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He plucked a wad of cotton from a package and turned to her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mother made sure that Viola got nice new lengths of cotton in the summer and flannel in the winter, along with her weekly wages. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I looked out over the field at the black men, the backs of their shirts stained with sweat, bent over their hoes chopping weeds among the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He looked up and I flinched—the right side of his face, up to and surrounding his right eye socket, was a mass of viney wood stems and shredded cotton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Grandpa had sense enough to know the reason Hosie hadn’t graduated was that he worked a lot at the cotton mill and couldn’t get to school regular. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They ran to Mama and buried their faces in her long cotton dress. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Next he will point to a woven cotton bag hanging on the south wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the cotton that passed through our chained hands that inaugurated this age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The woman—her mother?—behind her is covered head to toe in black cotton. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Papa looked at my cotton, grinned slightly, and asked Roberto to help him collect it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Alfred began to feel cramps in his stomach at the mingled smells of cotton candy, barbecue, fried chicken, and hot dogs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a wad of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z As the year turned, the cotton states began leaving the Union: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He smoked one cigarette after another and complained about the rain because we could not pick the cotton when it was wet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That evening, after supper, Papa unfolded the sacks for picking cotton and laid them out in the middle of the floor to prepare them. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Baachan wore a bright blue cotton kimono and her big straw hat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes my father would seek advice from Granddaddy about some aspect or other of the farm or the cotton gin. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then I stroked grease into the leftover bush-ball, tugging it straight, then letting it go, watching it shrink back into dark brown cotton candy. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z She starts rubbing cream around her eyes, then takes cotton and wipes off darkness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They sat on porches, and walked in the road swaying their hips under cotton dresses, bare-legged, their unstraightened hair braided or pulled straight back into a ball. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a long white cotton nightshirt with nice pearly buttons. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As with everything in the south, it started with cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I always liked to get out early because of the heat, particularly with cotton picking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cane, cotton, rice, they grow plenty down there.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Way I see it, jus’ as long as ’em Tanners keeps pumping out a healthy baby or two every generation, and don’t have another long run of mo-rons, I’m in high cotton.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Before she slipped a fresh pink linen dress over her head, she sprinkled violet sachet powder on a square of cotton and tucked it inside her brassiere. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeking comfort, I walked over to Roberto and whispered to him, “Someday, I will get to go pick cotton with you, Papa, and Mama. Then I won’t be left alone.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We needed to grow more food and cotton so Papa bought Mr. McKenzie out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pete was seventeen and the hired boy around their farm—picking cotton, cutting cane, chores like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragging the sack on the floor behind him, Papa stooped over, moving his hands up and down and around imaginary plants, pretending he was picking cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The Commander’s Wife hurries in, in her ridiculous white cotton nightgown, her spindly legs sticking out beneath it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “So are your mall visits in Connecticut still going okay? Because I still grow my own cotton.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She returned to the shops, where she bought a pair of boyfriend jeans, three cotton tank tops, a long flowing cardigan, espadrilles, and a white sundress. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was almost possible to forget everything if I just focused on the scent of lavender and clean cotton and the beeswax that made the wood glow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s overdressed for a day spent with toddlers, maybe a bit too professional-looking in her pale yellow skirt and white cotton blouse, her thick, dark brown hair twisted into a low bun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I glanced back up and shrugged, bread between my fingers like a pinch of cotton. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As a finishing touch, we arranged cotton bolls on the boughs to look like snow, something we had all heard about but never seen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Combing cotton hour after hour was wearing, and being young I would get tired. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The dress was dark blue with white buttons, soft cotton that gave off a medicinal smell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By the time the hot breads were placed on a white cotton towel on the table to cool, Poppy had fallen asleep on top of Sitti’s bed like a boy. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It involved harvesting everything left on the plants after the first picking, including cotton bulbs, shells, and leaves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After stopping at several places and asking for work, we found a rancher who still had a few cotton fields to be picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I was always there to help when it was time to dye the cotton, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold Sassy was proud of its cotton mill, just as it was proud of the trains coming through. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My palms start biting at me, and my mouth feels like I sucked on cotton balls. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Black sharecroppers, cotton pickers, and miners making even lower wages in Alabama jumped at the chance. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z On his way back, his arms wrapped around a bundle of brightly colored cotton and silk fabric, he bumped into Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton is soft against my cheek, warm. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She wore a yellow knit suit with matching buttons and short white cotton gloves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I was thinking, Now Fm gonna be picking cotton, since that’s how they punished juveniles—they put you in a school out in the country where they made you do field work during the day. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Or, possibly, the virus had nothing to do with the cotton factory, and Mr. Yu. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wintergreen confided with a laugh to Yossarian, after he had come to Pianosa to learn if it was really true about Milo and the Egyptian cotton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z By the time Walter was eight or nine, he became too valuable for picking cotton to justify the remote advantages of going to school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Turkish cotton,” she’d said, setting it on the bed with a pair of slippers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As plantation farming expanded, particularly tobacco and cotton farming, demand increased greatly for both labor and land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Around the room, the wainscoting panels have been painted to depict scenes of pre-Civil War times, happy Negroes picking cotton, horses pulling wagons, white- bearded statesmen on the steps of our capitol. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z After the cotton is set, Captain Keelson crawls out from under the boat and dusts himself off. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a tiny, cotton bulb, just like Roberto had said it would. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She could whittle a slice of wood to fit it—and pack it securely with mutowa sap and wild cotton fiber. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The flames from die yard fire were licking the blue cotton dress, making her dance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The contratista told Papa that we could pick cotton for other ranchers until la bola would start, which was in two or three weeks. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The silence of the night fell on Meggie's ears, muffled as if by cotton wool. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My pajamas were cotton, and it was chilly enough that I had immediate goose bumps. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It has a striped mattress with a thin, nearly see-through cotton sheet thrown over it; an Army-green cotton blanket is folded under the single pillow at the head. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It was the contratista, the labor contractor, who drove around in his beat-up red Ford truck, honking the horn to let us know that the cotton was dry and ready to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the pocket of my good Sunday dress, the black-and-gray-striped cotton one, I felt for the doll Gran gave me and squeezed it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Caravan guards wandered among the aisles in copper helmets and knee- length tunics of quilted yeUow cotton, empty scabbards swinging from their woven leather belts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Two sets of cotton sheets are taken from the linen closet and washed, then hung to dry on the long clothesline beside the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Instead, I go across the hall and take one of the white cotton bandages I brought from 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I pick them up and yes, I recognize my blouse, the coarse cotton mottled with berry and blood stains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Europe was famished for cotton and needed to be fed, bale by bale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Heat rushed to my cheeks, and I considered sticking my head under a pile of cotton batting. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, yeah, you be moving dirt all day. That's heavier than cotton.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My family had traveled there twice for the annual trade fair, perched in a creaking wagon amid bolts of cotton and crepe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were afraid of the living death that awaited them in the rice fields, on the great cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, in the deep South—and so ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bully cotton crops in Palestine and people for twenty miles around were going to pick it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a blue cotton tank top with tight blue jeans, Converse All Stars, and—as if she knew what he liked—no makeup. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then I noticed sharp lines running through my shirt, making it look more like paper than cotton. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I tried to pick with both hands, just like Roberto, but could only pick one cotton boll at a time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He hummed, low in his chest so that it filled my ear with cotton. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A little piece of cotton candy stuck to her lipstick. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z One man, a pure blue-black Yoruban, stands mute in the center of the room, a starched cotton fez on his head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Mariam wore a cream-colored dress that fell to her knees, cotton trousers, and a green hijab over her hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He did not care that I wore clothes I made for myself in home economics class, cotton print shirtwaists with crooked zippers and skirts hanging below my knees, outfits only the Pentecostal girls wore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Abra slipped off her dress and put on a cotton pinafore, which was understood to be for working around the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They also wore special cotton waistbands under their clothes and made for each soldier by his wife or his mother or his sisters. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was white as cotton and her voice shaky as she said, “We’d better see if those people are hurt.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “But look what I did,” I said, proudly pointing to my pile of cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They came for a visit and forgot to go back to tall cotton or short. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton was piling up on the piers in Egypt, and nobody wanted any. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He wore his hair long, tied back with white cotton string in the old style the men used to wear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I can see the whole mall and a bit of the world beyond: the frantic pinball machines, the pink billows of cotton candy, the vast and treeless parking lot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z According to Haas, the inland centers must have controlled the exchange, because the fishers needed their cotton for nets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The acrid smell of burning cotton fills the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was even too lazy and self-satisfied to go anywhere, except to preaching over at Hebron or to Cold Sassy to sell his cotton. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘That’s right. Four big cotton mills—those are the main ones. A hosiery factory. Some gins and sawmills.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She cleared away the smoking things, then drew back the cotton bedspread from the bed she had been sitting on, took off her slippers, and got into the bed. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Her first master got swindled by a man who sold a device that cleaned cotton twice as fast as Whitney’s gin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So he went moodily back to his bedroom and set about making a lanyard with his cotton cord. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Dressed in shabby pants, with sweat already leaching through the armpits of my white cotton shirt, I felt out of place amid the neighborhood’s neatly manicured lawns and lavish estates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The roughness of her pretty hands was hidden by a pair of white cotton gloves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I be younger, I pick the tomato, the cucumber, the bean, the cotton. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The only cotton left for us to harvest was la bola, the leftovers from the first picking, which paid one and a half cents a pound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Charged with picketing for better hours and working conditions at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia, sixteen women and one hundred and twelve men were imprisoned. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z We had a whole group of cotton buyers from Paris, if I remember correctly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She took a pair of mended cotton gloves from her purse. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy’s leaning on the rail, rolling cotton seeds around in his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A week of talent contests and softball games and races and Tilt-A-Whirl and bumper cars and music and barbecue and cotton candy. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sweat dripped down my chest, blotting the front of my cotton blouse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A couple of weeks later, my father met with the other major landholders at the Moose Lodge and declared the cotton harvest date, by far the most important event in our entire county. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For years, Angola—a slave plantation before the end of the Civil War—forced inmates to work in the fields picking cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The flames had bitten his nose and his lips, yet Dustfinger kept finding him making torches of cotton wool and thin twigs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We were one of the last families to leave because Papa felt obligated to stay until the rancher’s cotton had been all picked, even though other farmers had better crops. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He only had white hair on the sides of his head, almost like he was wearing ear muffs made of pure cotton. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Outside, a combine whirred in a cotton field. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Silks, woolens, crinolines, cottons, satins, taffetas, tulles, and velvets are stretched over long tables by teams of people. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z On Sunday I put on the clothes my mother and I have picked out, a dress of dark-blue and green wool plaid, white ribbed stockings that attach with garters onto my stiff white cotton waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked out the window, although there wasn't much to see—mostly fields of hay and cotton. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I went a few yards ahead of Mama and picked cotton from her row and piled it on the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I got you started with the starch and both irons are hot. Only way to press cotton is with a hot iron.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Mother’s been on the dinky Ridgeland County Historic Home Council forever, but refers to Jackson’s home tour as “high cotton” compared to theirs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was stuffed with cotton that never dried out properly, and there were stones sewn into his hands and feet and stomach so that he would sink. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The smells of hot dogs and cotton candy mixed with the ripe scent of the animals. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I take off the rest of the clothes, the overdress, the white shift and petticoat, the red stockings, the loose cotton pantaloons. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked to the cotton candy stall slowly, people swarming around us like busy flies. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was tough to raise enough cotton for clothes and grow enough food for all of us and the mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a kitchen, a room for sleeping, and a room in back to store cotton and weave cloth. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To Moseley, the fish bones suggested that the ample protein on the coast allowed people to go inland and build irrigation networks to produce the cotton needed to expand fishing production. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I take the cotton ball away from my arm. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z From my backseat car window, I would point my nose toward Kiddieland and breathe in the smells of roasting hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, and candied apples cooling on refreshment stand counters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As I was running my fingers over a length of thick blue cotton cloth, something caught my eye. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s a wad of cotton attached to the back, I can see it as she half turns; it looks like a sanitary pad that’s been popped like a piece of popcorn. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He filled the cotton with liquid, turned back to her upper lip, made a hideous face, and dabbed at her cuts. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was a dark green maxi, thin cotton, with a deep V in the front that made it impossible to wear a bra. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I dozed off again, and after a while I felt a soft fumbling about my face, noiseless, like fingers on spindle cotton. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Would God the Father allow His only Son to mix with this crowd of cotton pickers and maids, washerwomen and handymen? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Goodacre discussed the vagaries of the cotton market with my father. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was peach-colored and looked as though it were made of cotton candy. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He hurried out into the middle room, drawing on his blue outer trousers as he went, and knotting about the fullness at his waist his girdle of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Oldham did admit that activists had forced some needed changes, but the former cotton mill manager immediately added huffily that “this could have been done solely by negotiation, without the picketing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The book left open on my bed, the disheveled kantha quilt, the long black cotton scarf with red roses embroidered on it, my phone plugged into the nightstand. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I swallow hard to pop my ears, which feel like they are stuffed with cotton. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy took the cotton wad and pressed it into her left ear. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z We asked Grandma and Mother Lois, "What makes the clouds look like puffy balls of cotton, and what makes the sky always blue? Does God live above the clouds?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was glad, because it felt like my mouth was stuffed full of cotton, or like if I said anything it’d come out in another language. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z On both sides of the road we passed endless fields of harvested cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She was sitting on the sand, with her feet out straight in front, arranging short willow twigs into bundles, tying them with fluffy cotton string that she had twisted by hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, with great clarity, she saw another scene superimposed upon it: two laughing girls at a water fountain dressed in bright blue pants and cotton sweaters. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And he went away and in a little while he came back, bringing tied in a cotton kerchief a double handful of small red beans, mouldy with the soil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Underneath I had on my oldest cotton dress. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s cotton, and more than just a little too big. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s in fast decline after another hard cotton season. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It would have been easy to roll over the side, fully clothed, and let the weight of denim and cotton drag me to the bottom while my last breaths escaped my lungs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even realized it, but I was wearing the white cotton shirt Calypso had given me on Ogygia. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He lighted the shank of candle in the japanned candlestick and regarded the bed—as spineless as a hammock and covered with a dirty patchwork quilt, the cotton batting spilling from the edges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing a plain black cotton dress and had short gray hair that was permanented into sausage-like curls that bounced and jiggled on her round head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t want to see that outhouse any more than I wanted to iron cotton sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “He’s got a terrible rash,” she said, and lifted his long white cotton dress to show the baby’s bungy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the slow, fresh, saliva-stimulating smell of cooking cotton seeds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Our cots at either end of the room were sway-backed beneath their pink and brown cotton spreads. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They loosened their stays and sighed the hours away and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Himble took off his hat and wiped it across his brow, and his white hair gleamed in the moonlight like wadded cotton. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The cotton sweater was something I had packed as a formality, as you might pack antisnake bite medicine or splints. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Next, white cotton hoods will be placed over their heads, then the noose of the hangman’s rope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Anderson, the art teacher, poured pink sugar into a cotton candy machine. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z One of the Chinese parishioners had donned a Santa Claus costume and a stiff paper beard with cotton balls glued to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose to study it at a time when cotton was one cent a pound and the Finches had everything but money. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z However, prehistoric South American farmers instead grew the related cotton Gossypium barbadense. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Both irons were small, but they were heavy and had their own way of being moved across the cotton fabric. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z His grandma lay on the bed covered by a thin cotton quilt. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "It's just bourbon on cotton for my toothache." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Irene and I called it summer snow, and sometimes we’d squint into the dry glare and try to catch cotton on our tongues. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The three of them marveled over ladies who sported hair curled tightly into the latest bobs, high-heeled shoes, and dresses made of cotton and crepe. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We sat without talking for a while, watching the breeze stir the tops of the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The instant I saw the blood I looked up at the cotton- white ceiling and covered my nose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tiflin was in the kitchen spooning clabbered milk into a cotton bag. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold in his fingers, even through the cotton of the gloves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His father worked the land from dawn till dusk for the promise of cotton and a little pay. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I try to swallow but it feels like I have a wad of cotton balls in my throat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z There were concession stands there, too, like at a farmers’ market, selling roasted peanuts and cotton candy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z One fair evening as soon as supper was done, she dressed in her calico, which was nicer than her light summer cotton, put on her bonnet and good boots, and went out on the street. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But in the back room of our cabin, there was always cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold water seeped into my right shoe, soaking my white cotton socks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His voice, deep and soothing, comforting and familiar as a cotton T-shirt, made the lump rise in her throat again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A man whose handkerchiefs were not lightweight cotton poking from his jacket pocket, but red and large and spotted with white dots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the faja is no longer holding up my anaco, it falls to the ground, the thick, dark cotton pooling at my bare feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was made of dark-blue cotton, had a belt, and the cloth was so heavy that Lupita did not need to buy a petticoat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Before, it was take the blacks and put ’em in the cotton field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was streaked with high, thin clouds that looked like a cotton ball stretched apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing a hot pink leotard with a cotton ball tail and a headband with pink, glittery ears. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was awful at home when we practiced, and Dad would walk smirking through the house with wads of cotton sticking prominently from his ears. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the bag, two flattened strips of white cotton, each banded with black and carrying a dark brown stain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He had removed his dressing-gown and the sleeves of his white cotton nightshirt were rolled to the elbow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Neither Twig nor I knew exactly what to say, so we stood there for a second, looking at the bits of egg and cotton in his hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z An extra pair of long cotton underwear was there, an extra pair of jeans and three pairs of worn socks. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I then stood on them while I stooped over and picked the cotton bolls. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was down and she wore a white cotton shift and in the weak glow of the hallway night-light her skin looked almost smooth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajarry died in the cotton, the bolls bobbing around her like whitecaps on the brute ocean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t be carrying a purse if I were wearing jeans, but I’m in a thin cotton shalwar kameez that’s more comfortable in the fierce summer heat. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Another penny bought a small reel of red embroidery cotton and two cents went for a pair of small hoops. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna looked at the threadbare cotton boubou plastered with His Excellency’s glowering face and realized that this unsolicited lesson was an apology. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d dreamed for years of finally having a park where we could ride on the merry-go-round and eat cotton candy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mama was already expecting when we moved to Tent City from Corcoran at the end of January, after the cotton season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In concert we wore white cotton blouses and dark skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The cotton had been worn soft from dozens of wearings and washings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the arsenic-sprayed cotton country of southern United States beekeeping as an industry has nearly died out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The hotelkeeper brings him bread and cheese in a basket made from dark wicker, covered nicely with a cotton napkin: everything shipshape. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z G. was a storekeeper in a cotton factory in the town of Nzara. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After so long wearing simple cotton, this fabric felt smooth and light against my skin. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Masjid is nowhere in sight when I finally emerge in clean pajamas and a cotton robe. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The spot she had chosen to spread her blanket was under a handsome black walnut that grew at the edge of the woods bordering the acres of cotton. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The first factories were places like this cotton weaving plant, drawn in England in 1835. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After feeling the cotton to make sure it was completely dry, the contratista told us to start working. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the dying sunlight the people dragged, rather than their empty cotton sacks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Also a scoop- neck short-sleeved black jersey top that shows off her breasts, a full cotton skirt of a dull blue-green with abstract black swirls and squares on it, a wide black belt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Before I was born, she actually picked cotton for a week at Longleaf, my own family’s farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The front of Elena’s cotton dress was dark with perspiration as she gasped to fill her lungs with air. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z For people who take in washing and work as cooks, who pick cotton and work at the hot dye vats of the factories. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “They changed that law making folks play the cotton market.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As we got closer to the screen, I could hear High on a hill was a lonely goatherd, and could smell the cotton candy from one of the concession stands near the food trucks. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z As I moved closer I could see she was wearing a freshly starched, flowered cotton dress just like my own grandmother might have worn. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood outside in the cold, the winter air whipping through the thin cotton of my pajama pants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Your mama got plans for you, you know that? Just last week she says she wants you to come out. And now this. No, sir. Can’t have no debutante chopping cotton.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A stream of yellow sun streaked down the white cotton sheet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He and his brothers no longer prance the tobacco and cotton fields at night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They had no beach chairs, but the guy unpacked a bag that held a cotton beach blanket, towels, magazines, and a small cooler. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It looked like that worn by every other prisoner—coarse cotton with blue and gray stripes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I was five-foot-eleven but I had twenty-five thousand cotton dollars in my name, and if the beauty in that was not apparent then, by God, he wasn’t smart enough to be in the family anyway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Historically the inmates were required to do backbreaking labor, including picking cotton, for about four cents an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Much as his father hated it, Wash and his classmates wouldn’t be in class until after all the cotton was picked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Judith and Rose chatted, but Julie’s eyes wandered around the room and she saw for the first time a gas cooking stove, a couch, framed pictures on the wall, and curtains of cotton print. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She has aunts and uncles in Bastrop chopping cotton with the short hoe and pulling the long sack.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Despite they had dirty white handkerchiefs over their faces, Grandpa recognized them right off as the strangers who’d come in the store that morning claiming to be cotton buyers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Now keep it closed and put this bit of cotton over it. That’s a good boy.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I walked into the house, and in the kitchen I fetched a bottle of rubbing alcohol and some cotton balls. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All those years, black people were slaves, growing cotton and getting whipped over it—why in the world would anyone want to name a church after it? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I cup them, running my thumbs over them and feeling her nipples contract under the cotton of her dress. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When we reached the first of Grampa’s fields, I steered the truck onto a dirt road and let it roll to a stop alongside the edge of the cotton rows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z She buttoned a black cotton cardigan over her white T-shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There came a time when my grandmother’s brothers sold my grandfather and four of his colored children into the very cotton fields he freed himself from.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Morrie was in his wheelchair by the kitchen table, wearing a loose cotton shirt and even looser black sweatpants. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still wearing her navy blue school uniform with its rumpled white cotton blouse. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She set the baby down on a plaited cotton rug by the fireplace and spoke sternly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “One manicure, coming up,” he announced, and would not be deterred even when she pointed out that he had forgotten to bring cotton balls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In between, it chugs through the lush rolling hills of Mississippi, through mile after mile of cotton fields and pine forests, past towns and small cities dotting the landscape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Whenever she saw a mutowa tree, she went ashore to gather more sap and more wild cotton. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The steam rose from the shirt and filled my head with the clean fresh scent of sun-dried cotton, and bubbles of perspiration flushed along my hair line and dripped down my neck. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He separated them from the cotton, pointing them out one by one as he tossed them on the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Seeing this as an opportunity to prove to Papa that I was grown up enough for my own cotton sack, I followed him and Roberto into the field. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the nurses figured out that if she covered my damaged eye with a cotton patch, my double vision wasn’t as bad. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By the time she got to the S’s, I was shaky, because every one of the children who had gone before me had come back crying, pressing a wad of cotton against their arm. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Like Duke himself, his native town had long since expanded far beyond cigarette production, turning to millwork first to supply the tobacco industry with cotton bags, and later expanding to manufacture hosiery and other garments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they talked about picking cotton in east Texas and about running whiskey into the cottonfields of dry counties. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk down to where Cordelia stands by the railing, the snow not crunching but giving way under my feet like cotton wool packing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The little bit of hair he has is white as cotton and of a similar texture. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Her voice was calm and dry; she looked at his father briefly, her face unreadable, as she handed him the bottle and the cotton. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He was born in the cattle country near Mexico, and raised by a family that had run beef and then gone into cotton when the big Bureau of Reclamation dams completely transformed the plains country. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing white jeans and a navy blue cotton top with diamond jewelry. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The white cotton stuffing was tossed everywhere, making it seem as though a blizzard had hit. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In Erickson’s hypothetical reconstruction, as many as a million people may have walked the causeways of eastern Bolivia in their long cotton tunics, heavy ornaments dangling from their wrists and necks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And in an instant the slave appeared leading by the hand a square, rather tall figure, clothed in clean blue cotton coat and trousers. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I was about to close them again when I heard the brush of stiff cotton. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was hot and bitter, but it washed away the sandy cotton in his mouth. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a flattering black cotton dress with a square neckline. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Amah left me crying on the back of the boat, standing in my white cotton undergarments and tiger slippers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked up our cracked sidewalk and in the front door to find Dadi sitting there in her white cotton sari on the couch, with her hands on Oso’s cheeks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His fellow planters cherished him as a visionary for being the first in the region to switch to cotton, leading the profitable charge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The cotton stands as tall as my chest, puffy, white, and soft like the clouds, but I can actually touch the cotton. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tunic was as plain as her blanket, and tufts of white hair peeked out from the edges of her cotton head wrap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I ripped off the wrapping paper and inside a box were a set of three cotton dish towels hand- stitched with my name on them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bluefin comes in small, fancily contoured glass bottles, and it tastes like blue cotton candy. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I don't—” I try to swallow the cotton away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He got out and pointed to the cotton field. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The soft cotton becomes wet with spit as I chew and think of how to pay for next week’s Superlotto ticket. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The newspaper office was right across the street from the gin, and so the apparatus could be used when needed to receive cotton orders and check market prices. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It felt like I had cotton packed down my throat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The cotton would be too wet to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Fourth Aunt picked up her sons, one under each arm, and hid in the pig house, where they slept that night in cotton clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hit a baseball farther and round the bases faster than anyone else at his school, and he could haul more cotton than two of his older brothers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Say, what about all that Egyptian cotton he’s stuck with? How much did he buy?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The stairs were also notoriously loud, so I pleated up my white cotton nightgown and slid down the banister as I’d done my whole life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z One morning while we were getting dressed, I noticed that Janine was still in her white cotton nightgown. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never seen cotton growing and have no desire to do so. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature requirements for a healthy cotton harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I sat in the chair next to her, pulling my knees up and tucking my bare feet under my cotton nightgown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Diligence in spraying had a similarly unsatisfactory reward in the eastern Sudan, where cotton growers had a bitter experience with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Wished I'd never opened my stupid gob about the cotton now. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then I remembered Papa saying that we got paid three cents a pound, so I mixed dirt clods in with the cotton to make it weigh more. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have regular chores anymore, so a few days after I was back I took some cotton into town. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the land, they inherited their father’s tailor, who arrived once a month in his rickety carriage with his samples of linen and cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The light that was shining from my mother’s eyes, as she fingered the cheap cotton cloth, was something I will never forget. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘That’s why I left Mississippi. Because I didn’t want to be a sharecropper picking cotton.’ Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Soldiers ran under the bomb and tossed down a thick pile of cotton mattresses—low-tech protection in case of a potentially disastrous fall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was certainly enough dirt on the floor to permit a very limited cotton crop; but he saw no cotton. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the container, there was a small pile of cotton squares, some stiff and brown, others merely dappled. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The sky had turned to cotton candy and the city had become a plain again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The dirt of the girls’ cotton dresses continued on their legs, feet, arms and faces to make them all of a piece. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Purple and blue cotton saris are slung across the open windows of a clay house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The only used drawer in the bureau contained a jar of Vick’s Vaporub, Kleenex, an electric heating pad, a number of white nightgowns, and white cotton socks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At last Billy brought an old cotton comforter from the saddle-room, and threw it over the pony’s back and tied it at neck and chest with string. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “A strong Egyptian- cotton speculating industry means a much stronger America.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The gentle sounds of water cascading from the fountain reminded me of the creek that ran behind our cabin in the cotton labor camp in Corcoran. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It was my favorite holiday because when we picked cotton in Corcoran I started school around that time every year. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z After the sensors are all attached, you put on long white cotton underwear and then crawl into your pressure suit, which is not an easy thing to do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The motel room was small, like the cabins we lived in at the cotton labor camps. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z As she straightened at last, and gathered her bowl and all the soiled cotton wool, a doctor came and she was dismissed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He scratched his chest, and his fingers made a soft rustling sound on his cotton shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They bought a cotton petticoat, yellow knee socks, a yard of yellow ribbon, and a pair of black vinyl sandals in the same store. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They tended to the cotton in all of its phases. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z People were walking about in cotton frocks and the men were hatless. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But his mind still felt stuffed with cotton. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Which meant they lost a month planting their own cotton...which meant their crop didn’t have enough time to mature before it was time to harvest. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When the bell rang and we stood up, I noticed for the first time Quentin’s worn, faded shirt, thin at the elbows, and his patched cotton pants and his scuffed, ankle-high shoes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rug under my feet felt like a sack full of cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The sun slanted in strong, bronze-colored rays over the green fields of the new cotton. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Virginia or Delaware might tolerate their agitating, but no cotton state. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Over our first few days we would learn how to shine our shoes using Kiwi black shoe polish, a cotton rag, and a pretty disgusting amount of saliva. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She wore black leggings and a salwar kameez top that would have appeared as simple as white spun cotton if it didn’t glimmer like woven moonlight. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Yossarian, what am I going to do with so much cotton? It’s all your fault for letting me buy it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In my bureau were three things of hers that I had taken from her closet after she left: a red, fringed shawl; a blue sweater; and a yellow-flowered cotton dress that was always my favorite. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z |
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