1 The most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 2 In the portion of Virginia where I lived it was common to use flax as part of the clothing for the slaves.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 3 That part of the flax from which our clothing was made was largely the refuse, which of course was the cheapest and roughest part.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 4 I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 5 I had to wear the flax shirt or none; and had it been left to me to choose, I should have chosen to wear no covering.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 6 In connection with the flax shirt, my brother John, who is several years older than I am, performed one of the most generous acts that I ever heard of one slave relative doing for another.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 7 Were it mine, I should put it under flax, and clear five thousand roubles, or else sow it with turnips, and clear, perhaps, four thousand.
8 'I'm afraid of frogs,' observed Vaska, a boy of seven, with a head as white as flax, and bare feet, dressed in a grey smock with a stand-up collar.
9 When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE