flaxen thread
Example Sentences
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The warp of these carpets was, in olden times, a strong, heavy flaxen thread.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep or dead Now Lubin is away.”
From Literary Byways by Andrews, William
In the spring of the year, Miss Thusa always engaged in a very interesting process—that is, bleaching the flaxen thread which she had been spinning during the winter.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee
Grateful for the kindness and hospitality so liberally extended towards her, she never left a household without a gift of the most beautiful, even, fine, flaxen thread for the family use.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee
But autumn downward drove the kine, And clothed the wheel with flaxen thread, And sprinkled snow upon the pine, And bowed the silent spinster's head.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
