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1  Still, it was freshly painted, and made a considerable show.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
2  Words could not paint the terror that came over him as he realized all this.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
3  The center of the placard was occupied by a house, brilliantly painted, new, and dazzling.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  She wears a white shirtwaist, which represents, perhaps, half a week's labor painting cans.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  If any one wanted to work or paint or pray, and could find no one to maintain him, he could support himself by working part of the time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
6  Jadvyga likewise paints cans, but then she has an invalid mother and three little sisters to support by it, and so she does not spend her wages for shirtwaists.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  In other places all these various parts were dipped into troughs of paint and hung up to dry, and then slid along on trolleys to a room where men streaked them with red and yellow, so that they might look cheerful in the harvest fields.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
8  The very first Sunday they had all been taken to mass; and poor as they were, Elzbieta had felt it advisable to invest a little of her resources in a representation of the babe of Bethlehem, made in plaster, and painted in brilliant colors.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
9  These buildings, made of brick and stained with innumerable layers of Packingtown smoke, were painted all over with advertising signs, from which the visitor realized suddenly that he had come to the home of many of the torments of his life.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
10  The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
11  In the first place as to the house they had bought, it was not new at all, as they had supposed; it was about fifteen years old, and there was nothing new upon it but the paint, which was so bad that it needed to be put on new every year or two.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
12  There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their fingers off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
13  The floor was of tesselated marble, smooth as glass, and from the walls strange shapes loomed out, woven into huge portieres in rich, harmonious colors, or gleaming from paintings, wonderful and mysterious-looking in the half-light, purple and red and golden, like sunset glimmers in a shadowy forest.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
14  Marija did not understand then, as she was destined to understand later, what there was attractive to a "forelady" about the combination of a face full of boundless good nature and the muscles of a dray horse; but the woman had told her to come the next day and she would perhaps give her a chance to learn the trade of painting cans.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
15  There was a law forbidding the use of buildings as lodginghouses unless they were licensed for the purpose, and provided with proper windows, stairways, and fire escapes; but here, in a "paint room," reached only by an enclosed "chute," a room without a single window and only one door, a hundred men were crowded upon mattresses on the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26