flax
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Since his grandfather bought the 17,000 acres in 1956, the Leguee family has grown canola, wheat, flax and green lentils.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
We will never know if the flax fields took off and Shatz’s heirs prospered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
The specific brand of noncracker crackers that she recommends frequently are made of flax seeds, and are called, unfortunately, Flackers.
From Slate ● May 10, 2025
Examples of food provided in the breast cancer clinical trial included peanut soba noodles, steel cut oatmeal, banana flax muffins, sweet potato enchiladas, and Mediterranean white bean soup.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
My legs buckled, and I fell face first in a row of flax.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
The quotations for the various kinds of flaxes are made with one or other special mark termed a base mark; this usually, but not necessarily, indicates the lowest quality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
It. ij calevers wth flaxes and tuch boxe.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
Sometimes other proportions obtain, while it is not unusual to have quotations for flaxes containing four different kinds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The New Zealand flax gives the most perfectly soluble nitrates of any of the flaxes.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
The Hoffs flaxes are reckoned in a similar way.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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