1 She did not, she said, want charity for them, but a chance of self-help; an employment bureau, direction in washing babies and making pleasing stews, possibly a municipal fund for home-building.
2 With Vida as lieutenant and unofficial commander she campaigned for a village nurse to attend poor families, raised the fund herself, saw to it that the nurse was young and strong and amiable and intelligent.
3 Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine.
4 The brewer was a Jew, and had no brains, but he was harmless, and would put up a rare campaign fund.
5 He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
6 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. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter II. 7 I did receive, however, a small salary from the public fund, for my work as a public-school teacher.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 8 The last time I saw him, which was a few months before he died, he gave me fifty thousand dollars toward our endowment fund.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 9 Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 10 His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
11 He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 12 For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO... 13 He created at his own expense an infant school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old and infirm workmen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 14 Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 15 He was poor, but his fund of good humor was inexhaustible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC