Chapter 4, Page 40-42 : The description of Mabe's Place: "I figgered even a goat'd ruther live in a house full of ready women that lay in the road."

"...Buck turned his head and shoulders around to look gravely up at one of the girls. She was fat and she wore a long cotton dress that clung mighty close. Her hair hung down her back and her mouth was open. She stared at the goats, then at Buck still twisted around the bottom step, and slowly she reached up and scratched under her arm."

"Suddenly she stiffened. 'Good God, girls,'  she screamed, 'get up.' She turned and ran with her felt slippers flapping."

Chapter 13, Page 137: One of Mabe's girls has been kidnapped by a mob and Mabe sends Virgil to get Buck. "Mabe sent you? How'd he know I'd give a damn?" Virgil chuckled. "Mabe and I get to see the side of a man that most of them keep hid. Mabe seeks them drunk and gaping at a woman all wet-mouthed."

Page 145: "...and see the magnolia and the girl who was tied to its trunk. He didn't recognize her at first, even though the moon laid a wide shoal of light right over her. She was standing erect with her hair up, bound only by her wrists which strained out behind her to meet each end  of rope whose length looped on around the big magnolia's bole. Her back was pressed tightly against the thick smooth bark with its patches of velvety fungus, so tightly that her small breasts stretched almost flat on her chest. She was naked except for a pair of high-buttoned black shoes and rolled black stockings, one of which had slipped down over the shoe top. Her long brown hair was still piled neatly, held in place by two plaits which crossed from side to side and went on around her head to be gathered together in the back with a green roach comb. Her lips were pressed together until they almost disappeared. Her nostrils flared wide and straight ahead with anger but no fear. Buck saw the small black pupil and iris set in the long whites of the eyes as he maneuvered the robed figure to his left so he could reach around back of her with his knife hand, and it was then that he recognized her. 'Well, I'll be damned, Naomi,' he said, as he shoved the man directly in front of her and reached back with the knife, 'If I'd a'known it was you, I'd a'hurried.' Naomi's face twisted viciously but she didn't answer. She kicked out and up with her left foot and the buttoned arch of her shoe thudded into the groin of the robed figure."

page 146: "He turned abruptly and unthinkingly pushed against Naomi's bare buttock with the flat of his hand. 'Move over.' Naomi slapped automatically at his arm. 'Window-shopper, " she said bitterly. Buck flushed. 'Goddammit,' he said, roughly, 'you keep your mouth shut." He turned to Jeff. 'Where's her dress?' "