1 We had nothing but the students and their appetites with which to begin a boarding department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter X. 2 The most serious problem, though, was to get the boarding department started off in running order, with nothing to do with in the way of furniture, and with no money with which to buy anything.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter X. 3 No one connected with the boarding department seemed to have any idea that meals must be served at certain fixed and regular hours, and this was a source of great worry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter X. 4 Soon after the opening of our humble boarding department students began coming to us in still larger numbers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XI. 5 This small charge in cash gave us no capital with which to start a boarding department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XI. 6 For some time after the opening of the boarding department we had no chairs in the students' bedrooms or in the dining rooms.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XI. 7 When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 8 Very soon the problem of providing more rooms for the girls, as well as a larger boarding department for all the students, grew serious.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 9 Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crammed with visitors who had come to be near wounded relatives in the big Atlanta hospitals.
10 Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crowded with sufferers.
11 Dr. Meade could tell unlovely stories of those families who had been driven from mansions to boarding houses and from boarding houses to dingy rooms on back streets.
12 The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.
13 The story told, the stranger Captain immediately went on to reveal his object in boarding the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 14 Mrs. Mooney, who had taken what remained of her money out of the butcher business and set up a boarding house in Hardwicke Street, was a big imposing woman.
15 All the windows of the boarding house were open and the lace curtains ballooned gently towards the street beneath the raised sashes.