1 The agent's son embezzled the funds and ran off with them.
2 One day, when we were holding a meeting to secure funds for its erection, an old, ante-bellum coloured man came a distance of twelve miles and brought in his ox-cart a large hog.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IX. 3 After we had secured all the help that we could in Tuskegee, Miss Davidson decided to go North for the purpose of securing additional funds.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IX. 4 After that kindly introduction I began going North alone to secure funds.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 5 In my efforts to get funds I have had some experiences that may be of interest to my readers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 6 We were in great distress because of lack of funds, and the nervous strain was tremendous.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 7 She not only continued to work in the school at Tuskegee, but also kept up her habit of going North to secure funds.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIII. 8 Most of the addresses in the North were made for the direct purpose of getting funds with which to support the school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIII. 9 You see, all of our Confederate funds belong to the Yankees now--at least, the Yankees think so.
10 Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.
11 The negroes had frolicked through the legislature, grasping aliens had mismanaged the government, private individuals had enriched themselves from public funds.
12 The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.
13 But, turning another page or two, he discovered with astonishment that, in spite of this recent accession of funds, the balance had already declined to a few dollars.
14 Not in twenty years would the council propose or Gopher Prairie vote the funds for a new city hall.
15 The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions.