1 Mackie, the head teacher, offered me a position as janitor.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 2 I was determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be indispensable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 3 During the second year I continued to work as a janitor.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 4 Once there, I knew that I could make myself so useful as a janitor that I could in some way get through the school year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 5 During my last year at Hampton every minute of my time that was not occupied with my duties as janitor was devoted to hard study.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 6 Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
7 He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
8 Among the many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once janitor and sweeper out of the laboratory at York College.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...