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In some instances the pioneer teachers had to carry on their service amid the lowest depths of squalor and wretchedness, even more repellent than ragged-school work in the worst quarters of a great town.

From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

He was also an ardent superintendent at a certain ragged-school in the town conducted by University men; and was further becoming a well-known figure in the debates at the Union -- on all which accounts his friends were not a little satisfied.

The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Talbot Baines Reed 1872

She thought of the friends at Brandon, she thought of the poor old ladies she was accustomed to look after in the city, of the ragged-school that she visited, of the hospital in which she was a manager, of the mission chapel.

Little Journey in the World Charles Dudley Warner 1864

She thought of the friends at Brandon, she thought of the poor old ladies she was accustomed to look after in the city, of the ragged-school that she visited, of the hospital in which she was a manager, of the mission chapel.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He then walked away to his old lodgings in Piccadilly, where he was recognized with ecstasy by the quondam ragged-school boy, and was gladly welcomed by his landlady, who could not rejoice enough at the sight of his good-humoured face.

Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

(that ape of genius, an emissary from the devil to man), 'and the pitiful poverty of our old poetry of pedagogues and ragged-school teachers.

The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878