flaxen thread

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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

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

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

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

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