1 It was beyond their comprehension that an O'Hara lady should do manual labor.
2 Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
3 In the living-room Vida and Kennicott debated "the value of manual training in grades below the eighth," while Carol sat beside Guy at the dining table, buttering pop-corn.
4 The manual rites then ceased and all present reverted to the more spiritual part of the ceremonies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 5 Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness.
6 And this the common schools and the manual training and trade schools are working to accomplish.
7 They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 8 When it came to brickmaking, their distaste for manual labour in connection with book education became especially manifest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter X. 9 No student, no matter how much money he may be able to command, is permitted to go through school without doing manual labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIII. 10 But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her saucy tongue.
11 They shouted and threw snowballs, and informed her that it was SUCH fun, and they'd have another skiing expedition right away, and they jollily returned home and never thereafter left their manuals of bridge.
12 They had borrowed Carol's manuals of play-production and had become extremely stagey in vocabulary.