...In the portion of Virginia where I lived it was common to use flax as part of the clothing for the slaves... 
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...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...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
... 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...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...On several occasions when I was being forced to wear a new flax shirt, he generously agreed to put it on in my stead and wear it for several days, till it was "broken in...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...I hid myself away in the flax in the barn,and being much rest broken I slept until the next morning about 9o'clock...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...All grain is good for them, includingmillet, rice, the oleaginous seeds, as the sun-flower, flax,hemp, &c...
Richard L. Allen 「Domestic Animals」
...If she remained steady on onefoot throughout the ceremony, it was an omen that the flax cropwould be good; but if she let her foot down, it was feared that thecrop might fail...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...John’s Day (the summer solstice), every Lettishpeasant is said to devote his leisure hours to swinging diligently;for the higher he rises in the air the higher will his flax growthat season...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In the neighbourhood of Soest, whenthe farmer visits the flax-pullers for the first time, he iscompletely enveloped in flax...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...This is thought to be an infalliblespecific against earth-fleas and moles, and to cause the flax togrow well and tall...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Inothers the old folk used to plant three charred sticks from thebonfire in the fields, believing that this would make the flax growtall...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Faggots of heath, broom, and the dressings of flax werekindled and carried on poles by men, who ran with them round thevillages, attended by a crowd...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...When they migrated northwards theybrought with them the flax and the cereals of Egypt, and introducedwith them the southern weeds which grew among these cultivated plants...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...There grows spontainously everywhere akind of very broad-bladed grass, like flags of the Nature of Hemp,* (*The New Zealand flax (Phormium Tenax) is now a considerable article ofcommerce...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...The slip is then trimmed, and the same operation is performed on the remaining part, which leaves the flax entire...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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