"Peachy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Copiah County near Hazlehurst, about fifteen miles from Hazlehurst. My mother was born in Washington County. Virginia. Her first master was Qualls Tolliver. Qualls moved to Mississippi and married a woman down there and he had one son, Peachy Toliver. After he died, he willed her to Peachy. Then Peachy went to the Rebel army and ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... "I bought a peachy false-face," Perry boasted in the lull of the conversation which followed. "You ought to see it; looks ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... 'My cheeks were peachy, lips were coral, curls were gold, But he liked them braided crown-like, and with pearls and ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... stretched on her long canvas chair, in the green shade of the Sassetto. All about her was a chaos of moss-grown rocks crowned with trees young and old; a gap in the branches showed her a distant peachy sky suffused with gold above the ethereal heights of the Amiata range; a little wind crept through the trees; the birds were silent, but the large green lizards slipped in and out, and made a friendly life in the ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... to be a Police when I grow up," he announced. "I prayed about it last night. I know God'll fix it. I put it right to Him. It was peachy!" ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
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