flaxen thread

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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

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

The fine laces of Venice, France, and Belgium are all of linen, i.e. flaxen thread.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

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)