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1  "Cold" Boston was alive with the fire that is always hot in her heart for righteousness and truth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.
2  These utensils would be placed on the fire, and in ten or fifteen minutes breakfast would be ready.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.
3  At first the cooking was done out-of-doors, in the old-fashioned, primitive style, in pots and skillets placed over a fire.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.
4  We were several weeks making the trip, and most of the time we slept in the open air and did our cooking over a log fire out-of-doors.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
5  Just as the fire had gotten well started a large black snake fully a yard and a half long dropped down the chimney and ran out on the floor.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
6  Often I found some of them sitting huddled around a fire, with the one blanket which we had been able to provide wrapped around them, trying in this way to keep warm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
7  One night I recall that we camped near an abandoned log cabin, and my mother decided to build a fire in that for cooking, and afterward to make a "pallet" on the floor for our sleeping.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
8  I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
9  I had a large number of rooms to care for, and had to work late into the night, while at the same time I had to rise by four o'clock in the morning, in order to build the fires and have a little time in which to prepare my lessons.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
10  For some time, while a student at Hampton, I possessed but a single pair of socks, but when I had worn these till they became soiled, I would wash them at night and hang them by the fire to dry, so that I might wear them again the next morning.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
11  More than once, while on my journeys, I found that there was no provision made in the house used for school purposes for heating the building during the winter, and consequently a fire had to be built in the yard, and teacher and pupils passed in and out of the house as they got cold or warm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.