flaxen thread
Example Sentences
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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 William Andrews
Then over the tripod he balanced a ring which he held suspended by a flaxen thread of extreme fineness, and which had also been consecrated with mystic ceremonies.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge
I sit upon this mossy stone, And sigh when none can hear: And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep, or dead, Now Lubin is away!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Oh! in pity, let me go: I have spun the flaxen thread, until my aching fingers drop; And my weary feet will falter, though the whizzing wheel should stop.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The warp of these carpets was, in olden times, a strong, heavy flaxen thread.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
