| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 581 | View more quotes about slowly">Slowly, leaning forward, our feet digging into the earth, we had pitted our strength against the restraining band of the harness, and, slowly, the great blade had begun to move through the deep soil, turning it for our master. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 578 | Girls are cheaper than bosk. |
| 9 | 579 | It was the first time I had felt a whip. |
| 9 | 580 | I had been hitched with the other girls, and, together, sweating, we had labored naked in the traces under our master's whip. |
| 9 | 581 | Slowly, leaning forward, our feet digging into the earth, we had pitted our strength against the restraining band of the harness, and, slowly, the great blade had begun to move through the deep soil, turning it for our master. |
| 9 | 582 | After a few yards I thought I might die. |
| 9 | 583 | Who would know if I did not put my full strength upon the trace? It was then that I first felt the whip. |
| 9 | 584 | It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my back like a hot snake and a rifle shot. |