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1 After some hours had passed, the head teacher said to me: "The adjoining recitation-room needs sweeping."
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
2 I knew that I could sweep, for Mrs. Ruffner had thoroughly taught me how to do that when I lived with her.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
3 The sweeping of the recitation-room in the manner that I did it seems to have paved the way for me to get through Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
4 This was the spirit that inspired me in my first effort at Hampton, when I was given the opportunity to sweep and dust that schoolroom.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XVI.
5 Mackie, the teacher who had given me the "sweeping" examination when I entered Hampton, came to see us, and still later General Armstrong himself came.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XI.
6 The sweeping of that room was my college examination, and never did any youth pass an examination for entrance into Harvard or Yale that gave him more genuine satisfaction.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
7 In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XII.