It was a low,dull,quick sound -- much a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

One of the most famous and one of the most prolific was a man named Charles Colcott Jones who owned a huge rice and partly cotton plantation system in low-country Georgia, just south of Savannah.

其中一位著名的多产农场主名叫,查尔斯·考克特·琼斯,他在乔治亚的低地,拥有大片的良田和一部分棉花种植园,就在乔治亚州东南部一城市

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It was a low,dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He took a low-paying job in a factory that produced cotton cloth.

VOA: special.2010.02.25