flaxen thread

Example Sentences

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This "Hedebo" needlework is the finest stitchery you can well imagine, wrought on home-spun linen with flaxen thread.

From Denmark by Thomson, M. Pearson

Warts may safely be destroyed by tying them closely round the bottom with a silk thread, or a strong flaxen thread well waxed.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

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)

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