1 It was a four-page weekly, which sold for less than half a cent a copy; its regular subscription list was a quarter of a million, and it went to every crossroads post office in America.
2 The aides-de-camp collected money by subscription.
3 After the concert some of the passengers proposed that a subscription be raised to help the work at Tuskegee, and the money to support several scholarships was the result.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 4 Moreover, I fed the men who were with him with barley meal from the public store, and got subscriptions of wine and oxen for them to sacrifice to their heart's content.