flaxen thread
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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
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
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 Caroline Lee Hentz
The fine laces of Venice, France, and Belgium are all of linen, i.e. flaxen thread.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep or dead, Now Lubin is away.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
