flaxen thread
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Such bundles of soft delicate knitted stockings and socks; and, above all, in Lady Ludlow’s eyes, such hanks of the finest spun flaxen thread!
From My Lady Ludlow by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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
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
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
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
