Women sang while they beat their clothes by the pool; wooden shoes clattered to and fro as the girls brought water from the fountain in Place St. Louis; men, with their long hair, embroidered jackets, and baggy breeches, drank cider at the inn doors; and the great Breton horses shook their high collars till the bells rang again, as they passed along the roads that wound between wide fields of colza, buckwheat, and clover.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
Few countries can boast such wheat, colza, flax, and madder as it produces.
"Holland, v. 1 (of 2)"
Edmondo de Amicis
A windmill is as valuable as a farm, and it takes a considerable fortune to build one and provide it with colza, grain, flour, and oil to keep it working, and to sell its products.
"Holland, v. 1 (of 2)"
Edmondo de Amicis