1 The average size of Negro families has undoubtedly decreased since the war, primarily from economic stress.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 2 In a more prosperous year the situation is far better; but on the average the majority of tenants end the year even, or in debt, which means that they work for board and clothes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 3 The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 4 The average American can easily conceive of a rich land awaiting development and filled with black laborers.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IX 5 I have sought to paint an average picture of real relations between the sons of master and man in the South.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IX 6 The average audience, I have come to believe, wants facts rather than generalities or sermonizing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter XV. 7 The average crank has a long beard, poorly cared for, a lean, narrow face, and wears a black coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter XV. 8 Out of the twelve months in a year I suppose that, on an average, I spend six months away from Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter XV. 9 It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 10 I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXII. 11 The average man don't like trouble and danger.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXII. 12 Which was sound enough judgment; but you take the average man, and he wouldn't wait for him to howl.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV. 13 There were eight whales, an average pod.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 14 On an average, the tunneling cost a life a day and several manglings; it was seldom, however, that more than a dozen or two men heard of any one accident.
15 That was a good haul, he said, better than average.