"I was working in the cotton patch," she said.

His face had gone back to that chiseled-hardness look he'd worn for months at the cotton patch.

The school was at one time located across a cotton patch from the area public school.

At times a woman or two languidly filled a basket in the cotton patch.

But Gran had been born and bred deep in the cotton patch.

For two hours we were transported from the harshness of life in the cotton patch to a fantasy land where the good guys always won.

In fact, he'd probably never dreamed of leaving the cotton patch.

He was quite smug that he'd managed to flee the cotton patch and make a better living up North.

My mother was working on her escape from the cotton patch.

'But you give people the right to be wrong if they came out of the cotton patch,' Elliot said.