HARD in Classic Quotes

1  The work was hard and taxing but I stuck to it.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

2  To this class the problem seemed especially hard.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

3  The work was not only hard, but it was dangerous.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

4  This, I confess, was another pretty hard blow to me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

5  It is not hard to imagine what my feelings were at the time.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

6  It was hard for them to see the connection between clearing land and an education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

7  In the first place, the work was hard and dirty, and it was difficult to get the students to help.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

8  After a few weeks of hard work the foundations were ready, and a day was appointed for the laying of the corner-stone.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

9  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. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

10  It was hard for me to understand how any individuals could bring themselves to the point where they could be so happy in working for others.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

11  To wear one suit of clothes continually, while at work and in the schoolroom, and at the same time keep it clean, was rather a hard problem for me to solve.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

12  There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

13  Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

14  Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to "old Marster" and "old Missus," and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

15  One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the day's work was over.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

16  But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

17  It was hard for me at this time to understand how a woman of her education and social standing could take such delight in performing such service, in order to assist in the elevation of an unfortunate race.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.