flaxen thread

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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

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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

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)

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