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1  Sometimes we had food cooked for us, and sometimes we did not.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
2  Withal there was a waste of food and other materials which was sad.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
3  The merchants in the town would let us have what food we wanted on credit.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.
4  In my childhood I had suffered for want of a place to sleep, for lack of food, clothing, and shelter.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.
5  I went at once to the vessel and asked the captain to permit me to help unload the vessel in order to get money for food.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
6  Of course as the war was prolonged the white people, in many cases, often found it difficult to secure food for themselves.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
7  After buying food with the small wages I received there was not much left to add on the amount I must get to pay my way to Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
8  The next morning I found myself somewhat refreshed, but I was extremely hungry, because it had been a long time since I had had sufficient food.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
9  Without asking as to whether I had any money, the man at the desk firmly refused to even consider the matter of providing me with food or lodging.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
10  My ignorance of how to wait upon them was so apparent that they scolded me in such a severe manner that I became frightened and left their table, leaving them sitting there without food.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
11  Sometimes a portion of our family would eat out of the skillet or pot, while some one else would eat from a tin plate held on the knees, and often using nothing but the hands with which to hold the food.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
12  Having been so long without proper food, a bath, and a change of clothing, I did not, of course, make a very favourable impression upon her, and I could see at once that there were doubts in her mind about the wisdom of admitting me as a student.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
13  As a rule, there was food for whites and blacks, but inside the house, and on the dining-room table, there was wanting that delicacy and refinement of touch and finish which can make a home the most convenient, comfortable, and attractive place in the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
14  It is true I had practically no money in my pocket with which to pay for bed or food, but I had hoped in some way to beg my way into the good graces of the landlord, for at that season in the mountains of Virginia the weather was cold, and I wanted to get indoors for the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
15  The things that they disliked most, I think, were to have their long hair cut, to give up wearing their blankets, and to cease smoking; but no white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.