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1  They were good students, and mastered their work thoroughly.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.
2  At first I had a good deal of doubt about my ability to succeed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.
3  Naturally much of the conversation of the white people turned upon the subject of freedom and the war, and I absorbed a good deal of it.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
4  I had a good deal of boyish pride, and I tried to hide, as far as I could, from the other students the fact that I had no money and nowhere to go.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
5  I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of an old coloured man, during the days of slavery, who wanted to learn how to play on the guitar.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.
6  My good friend, Mrs. Ruffner, to whom I have already referred, always made me welcome at her home, and assisted me in many ways during this trying period.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
7  That meant a kind of rough dance, where there was likely to be a good deal of whiskey used, and where there might be some shooting or cutting with razors.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.
8  For several years my mother had not been in good health, but I had no idea, when I parted from her the previous day, that I should never see her alive again.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
9  After having given a good deal of thought to the subject, we finally had the plans drawn for a building that was estimated to cost about six thousand dollars.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.
10  Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
11  I felt that I had reached the promised land, and I resolved to let no obstacle prevent me from putting forth the highest effort to fit myself to accomplish the most good in the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
12  Before going there I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
13  I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the multiplication table.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.
14  I made it known to a few people in the town of Hampton that I had this coat to sell, and, after a good deal of persuading, one coloured man promised to come to my room to look the coat over and consider the matter of buying it.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
15  I recall that one man, who seemed to have been designated by the others to look after my political destiny, came to me on several occasions and said, with a good deal of earnestness: "We wants you to be sure to vote jes' like we votes."
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.
16  When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which, a good Providence has already led us.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
17  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.
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