OPENED in Classic Quotes

1  On the morning that the school opened, thirty students reported for admission.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

2  We tried several locations before we opened up a pit that furnished brick clay.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

3  I was anxious, however, that the way might also be opened for me to speak directly to a representative Southern white audience.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

4  When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

5  The opening of the school in the Kanawha Valley, however, brought to me one of the keenest disappointments that I ever experienced.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

6  Then it was fully a mile from the opening of the coal-mine to the face of the coal, and all, of course, was in the blackest darkness.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

7  About this time the question of having some kind of a school opened for the coloured children in the village began to be discussed by members of the race.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

8  The schoolhouse was some distance from the furnace, and as I had to work till nine o'clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

10  In the centre of the earthen floor there was a large, deep opening covered with boards, which was used as a place in which to store sweet potatoes during the winter.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

11  As it would be the first school for Negro children that had ever been opened in that part of Virginia, it was, of course, to be a great event, and the discussion excited the wildest interest.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

12  She felt that things would not be in condition for the opening of school unless every window-pane was perfectly clean, and she took the greatest satisfaction in helping to clean them herself.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

13  The Atlanta Exposition, at which I had been asked to make an address as a representative of the Negro race, as stated in the last chapter, was opened with a short address from Governor Bullock.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

14  I had been working in a salt-furnace for several months, and my stepfather had discovered that I had a financial value, and so, when the school opened, he decided that he could not spare me from my work.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

15  There were so many of the older boys and girls in the town, as well as men and women, who had to work in the daytime and still were craving an opportunity for an education, that I soon opened a night-school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

16  Mackie, the lady principal, asking me to return to Hampton two weeks before the opening of the school, in order that I might assist her in cleaning the buildings and getting things in order for the new school year.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

17  When I opened my eyes I would tip the plate in one direction and another, so as to make the molasses spread all over it, in the full belief that there would be more of it and that it would last longer if spread out in this way.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.