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1 I must have walked the streets till after midnight.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
2 Knowing nothing else better to do, I walked the streets.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
3 On an unusually cold and stormy day I walked the two miles to see him.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XII.
4 In some way I managed to keep warm by walking about, and so got through the night.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
5 Frequently the husband would take his bread and meat in his hand and start for the field, eating as he walked.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter VII.
6 In the early years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or travelled country roads in the North for days and days without receiving a dollar.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XII.
7 When I walked they made a fearful noise, and besides this they were very inconvenient, since there was no yielding to the natural pressure of the foot.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter I.
8 What little clothing and few household goods we had were placed in a cart, but the children walked the greater portion of the distance, which was several hundred miles.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter II.
9 By walking, begging rides both in wagons and in the cars, in some way, after a number of days, I reached the city of Richmond, Virginia, about eighty-two miles from Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
10 He was so nervous about the kind of reception that I would have, and the effect that my speech would produce, that he could not persuade himself to go into the building, but walked back and forth in the grounds outside until the opening exercises were over.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIII.
11 Notwithstanding that the Emancipation Proclamation freed him from any obligation to his master, this black man walked the greater portion of the distance back to where his old master lived in Virginia, and placed the last dollar, with interest, in his hands.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter I.