How To Use Flax In A Sentence
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Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
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Grasses, flax, astelia, griselinia, and coprosma are generally quite hardly and will stand a good deal of rough and tumble before they turn up their toes.
Rotorua Daily Post
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Industrial crops such as flax and dye-plants (madder, woad, and weld), and other cash crops such as coleseed, hops, and tobacco, increased revenue per hectare, enabling more people to live from the earnings of smaller plots.
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There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
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The villa is a former flax mill with a fantastic vantage point overlooking the town's medieval castle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oats, millet, opium poppies, and flax were also being cultivated by the end of the Neolithic period.
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At the same time, the information of flax biotechnology of anther culture, haploid breeding, utilization of somatic mutation, protoplasmic culture, gene transformation were introduced in detail.
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Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
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Earlier this year, a small study by U.S. and Chinese researchers in the British Journal of Nutrition suggested that flax seed-derived lignan (a natural plant-based compound) might modulate C-reactive protein levels in type 2 diabetics, especially among women.
Flax Seed: A Natural Alternative to Statins?
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He had azure coloured eyes and flaxen hair with indigo streaks.
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Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.
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Rose of Ireland and the White Rose of Devon, a noted Society phrasemonger had dubbed them, seeing them together on the lawn one Ascot Cup Day, their light draperies and delicate ribbons whip-whipping in the pleasant June breeze, ivory-skinned, jetty-locked Celtic beauty and blue-eyed, flaxen-locked Saxon fairness in charming, confidential juxtaposition under one lace sunshade, lined with what has been the last new fashionable colour under twenty names, since then; only that year they called it _Rose fané_.
The Dop Doctor
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Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that: a whole continent of smoking flax; which, blown on here or there by any angry wind, might so easily start into a blaze, into a continent of fire!
The French Revolution
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I live on the unfashionable west side of Santa Fe, where the neighborhood is small and funky, adobe houses sitting in well-tended yards of flax and hollyhocks or the neglected ones of dirt and panic grass with a few old car parts thrown in.
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In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
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It was silvery white, of unsoiled reed flaxen silk.
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(The most straight lines i could find in my photos of some harakeke or flax (phormium tenax) that of course aren't straight at all)
Expectations, bottom lines and other geometry
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BioSan Vita Flax has been fortified with sulphurated protein, making it an all-in-one formula!
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Hem – m – that one with the flaxen curls under her bonnet is Miss Day.
The Hidden Hand
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Lately his slumber had been disturbed by dreams of yellow roses and pink heather, bachelor's-buttons and bitterroot and salmon poppies and moss rose and blue flax and red tulips and yellow water lilies.
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For the new study, almost 200 postmenopausal women who reported having at least 28 hot flashes a week were randomly selected to receive either a placebo or a daily flaxseed bar for six weeks.
Flaxseed fails as treatment for hot flashes
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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Flax has been found to be a good candidate for growing in rotation with cotton in the Southeast, particularly along coastal areas.
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When I asked what this meant, she replied, ‘They wear plastic piu-pius (skirts which were traditionally made from flax) and use plastic pois (small balls attached to a string and used mostly in women's dances)’.
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The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.
Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
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Omega - 3 fatty acids, such as those in oily fish and flaxseed oil, can relieve dry eyes by easing inflammation and stimulating tear production.
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With his trademark single flaxen plait snaking lazily down his jumper, Britain's leading organic gardener certainly appears to practise what he preaches.
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Asta was a sorrel mare, chestnut colored, with a flaxen mane and tail.
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With these goes the Wadman, who dealt in, or grew, the dye-plant called woad; cf. Flaxman.
The Romance of Names
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Other cholesterol - lowering options include flaxseed and garlic.
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The international media's attention was drawn sharply to a heavily tattooed Maori warrior, wearing nothing but a flax skirt (piupiu) with a black thong.
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The whereabouts of Flaxman's death mask was not known, and nothing came of the suggestion.
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An inquest held at Flax Bourton Coroner's Court in Bristol heard part of the window catch was broken, meaning it could be pushed open at any time.
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The man with the new flaxen locks instead explained that he was struggling with pityriasis rosea, a chicken pox-like virus.
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He stayed single and spent his daylight hours clearing the land of manuka, fern and flax.
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My amusements were few; the good Mrs. Putnam employed me and her daughters constantly to spin flax for shirts for the American soldiers; indolence, in America, being totally discouraged; and I likewise worked some for General Putnam, who, though not an accomplished muscadin, like our dilletantis of St. James's-street, was certainly one of the best characters in the world; His heart being composed of those noble materials which equally command respect and admiration.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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Does not contain melanin body for the flaxen hair, and gray.
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Sif real a flax comb or hatchel Sichcal s meafitring bowl or entral Siulbipe
Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ...
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We do not refry,we mash the hot(fool)in a deep dish using a fork or a spoon then add some oil(flax or olive or sunflower oil),one fresh lime juice,salt,and may be one mashed boiled egg and tahin(optional but recommended) and eat that with whole grain pita..enjoy.
Recipe for Pressure Cooker Refried Beans with Onion, Garlic, and Green Chiles
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The cultivation of flax supposes property, commerce, agriculture, and manufactures] 10 I have used, without undertaking to reconcile, the facts in Procopius, (Goth.l. ii. c.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Irish farmers came to rely on imported flax seed because the very best linen required the harvesting of flax before the seed could mature.
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One of our companions was astonished to find that the local Afghans only used flax as an oilseed, and had never heard of linen.
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There were also side effects in both groups, namely bloating, diarrhea and nausea, most likely due to the fiber in the placebo and flaxseed bars, said study author Sandhya Pruthi, an associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Flaxseed fails as treatment for hot flashes
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He took off the boy's cap and pushed back his thick flaxen curls.
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As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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For instance, a breakfast of nonfat yogurt topped with blueberries, bananas, chopped walnuts and ground flaxseed knocks three superfoods off his list in one meal.
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In a separate study, 22 post-menopausal Danish women ate a low-fat muffin, either with or without flax seed-derived lignan, every day for six weeks.
Flax Seed: A Natural Alternative to Statins?
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Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the
Prescott of Saskatchewan
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While it is around 15% in jute, it is less than 5% in flax and ramie.
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Flax waffle is new today, because I was thinking about what I would have for dinner if timprov is not up and at-'em enough to have a real dinner with me, and we have flax waffles in the freezer, and they're not too bad, could be worse.
Mrissa: fake swears
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She said, originally, in 1999, her coach gave her what he described as flaxseed oil.
CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007
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Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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He said hemp fibre, like the more commonly known flax, kenaf and sisal fibres, could be used in pulp, paper and fuels.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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All about are bondsmen's scalps - bald pates, shaved and shining as this morning's spring-ish dew - while we bonded women wear our best and only sheath of wadmal cloth, gray and drab and of a sweaty woolen, with a flaxen kerchief tied around our brows and braids.
Excerpt: The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
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_Otunai-rangi_, of the palm tree (nikau) and flax (harakeke).
Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
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Don't buy products that exploit the oceans, such as coral calcium, shark cartilage supplements, and coral jewelry, and if you take fish oil, you can substitute equally healthy flaxseed oil.
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_why_ wool is soft, and fur fine, and cotton downy, and down downier; and how a flax fiber differs from a dandelion stalk, and how the substance of a mulberry leaf can become velvet for Queen Victoria's crown, and clothing of purple for the housewife of Solomon.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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The fibres damaged the skin on the women's hands if their job was to comb the flax by hand.
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I've carried a shovel, crowbar, heavy "rammer," a dozen insulators on an average (strung round my shoulders with raw flax) - to say nothing of soldiering kit, tucker-bag, billy and climbing spurs -- all day on a telegraph line in rough country in New Zealand, and in places where a man had to manage his load with one hand and help himself climb with the other; and I've helped hump and drag telegraph-poles up cliffs and sidings where the horses couldn't go.
Children of the Bush
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A counsel that I scholarly fresh was to acquire the full flaxseeds and acquire a affordable drink hoagy and comminute up the oilseed up as you requirement it.
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It is miles of split-rail fence, moss on a wood shingle roof, broomcorn and flax in a pioneer garden.
Proposal: A great deal on a New Deal
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This twine is now roped with a small thread of cotton, hemp or flax to keep the ends from projecting.
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While I have low cholesteral, I just might take a nopal supplement or even Nopalinasa once I am more comfortable with what, exactly, flaxseed is and what its benefits and drawbacks are.
Statin meds in Mexico
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Natunola built the world's first dehulling plant for flaxseed to produce flax kernel, flax hull and other flax fractions.
Undefined
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a cotton and linen cloth, and _diaper linen_ was woven of flax with a raised figure such as in damask, and used chiefly for table-linen.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Polyunsaturated oils, such as flax, corn, hemp, safflower, sesame and sunflower, have at least two gaps.
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Joey Maynard smiled down at the small, eager face with its frame of flaxen curls.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Milo's steed, a roan stallion with a flaxen mane and tail, looked at her with ears pricked up.
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The Chatham Islands ribbonwood (Plagianthus divaricatus), mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus), akeake, and flax have all flourished since domestic stock were removed from the island.
Chatham Island temperate forests
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And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Seen along the way today was a heron, more brambles, some wild blackberries, hawthorn showing fruit ranging from cherry red through to deep blood red, rose hips and some lovely yellow toadflax.
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These fibres would then be spun in the same way as flax or wool.
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‘Faith, Broadbrim, I believe thou art right, and the old gentleman in the flaxen jazy shall have no more of the comforter.
Redgauntlet
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I wasn't hugely satisfied: I can think of other significant plants (the spices, coffee and cacao, flax and sisal, the coconut/copra) whose trade has affected and continues to affect the world economy.
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The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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'As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.'
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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He was wearing the korowai, or cloak, that adorns great chiefs - and a piupiu, or flax skirt, that gently swayed in the breeze.
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However, it is not effective on toadflax, spurge or mustards and has limited activity on houndstongue and blueweed.
Undefined
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He invented a mill for sawing marble, a machine for spinning flax, another for scooping out earth, called a dredging machine, and several kinds of canal boats.
Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison
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As steamships gradually replaced sailing vessels the demand for ropes was reduced and by 1890 the flax mill was closed.
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Models will show off a range of garments made from hemp, nettle, flax, kapok, peat, bamboo, cellulose fibres and a new polymer made from starch called PLA, plus animal fibres including wool, angora, alpaca, mohair and llama.
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It appears that as little as one tablespoon of ground flaxseed a day could help protect against breast cancer.
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Other memory foods that contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids include flaxseed, walnut, salmon, soybean, halibut, shrimp, snapper, tofu, scallop, and winter squash.
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Her flaxen hair was drawn back in a single plait bound with cord.
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Flax, for example, receives six mentions in the Bible, and is the basis for linen production.
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She said originally, in 1999, her coach gave her what he described as flax seed oil.
CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007
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The second type of laxative is a lubricating bulk laxative, including demulcent herbs such as psyllium and flax seed.
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But the Flaxby Road outfit have been hit by a horrendous injury list that has robbed them of six first team players.
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Many of the second and third generation of settlers grew flax and spun and wove yarn in addition to tending a small farm.
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Plant sources - such as flaxseed, which is often cited as a good source - has a form of omega 3 fatty acid called ALA.
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Animal remains derived from sheep, horse, cattle and camels while agriculture was attested by flax seeds.
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Blainey suggested that bases were established at both Sydney and Norfolk Island in 1788 because New Zealand flax and Norfolk Island pine could provide ropes, sailcloth, and masts for the British navy.
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Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax.
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The country is small, but every part of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into linen by the women.
The World's Fair
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The old are crabbit, and they do be thinking more of draining a field, or of the price of flax, nor of the pain and delights of love.
The Wind Bloweth
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Among those white-robed girls this young enchantress must have shone out like a diamond in white flax.
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In general, the spaces between the lagoons and the river are thickly wooded (the trees consisting principally of the blue gum of a large growth), and are overgrown with vines of various descriptions, and the fern, the peppermint, flax plant, and currajong.
A Source Book of Australian History
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Brindle's calf in the woods, or gather oven-wood for his mother to start again the big brick oven with its dozen loaves of rye bread, or see the plow crowding the lingering snow-banks on the side-hill, or help his father break and swingle and hatchel the flax in the barnyard?
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
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Never a night passed but the dreary stage-door was cinct with a circlet of fools bearing bright bouquets, of flaxen-headed fools who had feet like black needles, and graceful fools incumbent upon canes.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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Healthy fats - the omegas - can be found in flaxseed oil, flaxseeds and cold-water fish such as salmon or tuna.
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On colour, white metope can hang shallow brown or flaxen picture frame.
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Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk.
Spinning with glass.
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Toast whole wheat bread, slather with almond butter or peanut butter, and then sprinkle flaxseeds on top.
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Stronger than flax, fiber from white dead-nettle was also spun into fishing nets by North American Indians, through a process of decay rather than retting.
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Yet it is hard to see why he was any more dangerous than Charles Darwin, whose theory, when distorted and vulgarized as the survival of the fittest, provided scientific support for Himmler's program to breed flaxen-haired demigods—so unlike the physique of the dear Führer and his closest associates.
Hitler's Golden Book
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In this issue we will learn about that often overlooked tool used in flax processing, the hackle, also called a hatchel or a hetchel.
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Fast flowing water and raw materials such as wool and wood made Ambleside a natural home to industry such as fulling mills - mills which removed sheep oils from woven cloth corn, wool, flax and bobbin mills.
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Mr. FECHTER presents HAMLET as a perfect "flaxy;" partly in deference to the present popularity of the tint, and partly to show a marked contrast with his OTHELLO, which character he always makes up as a male brunette.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870
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The metope of shallow blue, the curtain can be used dark brown, blue flower of white perhaps bottom makes antependium, flaxen transparent gauze does a curtain.
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Before inheriting the title on the death of his father he had been left Field House, Flaxton, its 400 acres, and some tenanted farmsteads by an aunt.
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This process usually requires a flax brake, a wooden device consisting of two hinged blades.
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It seemed to him it was all-white, flaxy sheets of linen, or sifted snow a-falling that he saw there through a rift in the mist.
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
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The farmers cleared the land, cultivated rye and flax, and raised cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry.
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However, three children on the back seat, dressed in the same style, with the addition of long flaxy ringlets, made very passable
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The use of wool, cotton, silk, flax, or some other plant or animal fibre yarn or thread to produce textiles of various sorts by criss-crossing the yarns together in at least two directions.
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I recommend that those prone to dry skin take 1 tablespoon of flaxseed or hempseed oil each day.
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Her favorite anti-stress and nourishing concoction is a smoothie with ingredients such as low-fat milk or yogurt, bananas, blueberries, flax, oatmeal, almonds, and a little bit of unsweetened cocoa.
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Polyunsaturated oils, such as flax, corn, hemp, safflower, sesame and sunflower, have at least two gaps.
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Less conspicuous species are woolly plantain, wild four-o'clock, yellow stargrass, and false toadflax.
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Two teaspoons of flax seed simmered in one quart water makes a good fiber solution (2 oz per day in juice).
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She was walking slowly, because she saw, coming toward her, a portly lady, with hair so flaxy that no gray would show in it.
Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way
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Samantha sat in her cabin, rinsing the rough soap out of her flaxen hair.
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A collection of native grasses, flaxes, hebes, Marlborough rock daisies and lancewoods was grown on in a spare vegetable plot.
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In a few cases which have come under my observation, I have found this and the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) convenient and useful prescriptions in this disease; the latter, with tartar emetic solution, to promote expectoration; and the former, with flaxseed tea, as a stimulant diaphoretic, combining them with spirits of turpentine when it has assumed the typhoid form.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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A small crowd of neighbours and passers-by gathered at the Flaxley Road junction to watch the drama unfold.
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In that white dress, with that flaxen hair and those blue eyes, she looks as if she's descended straight from heaven.
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In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of Jupiter Ammon, such as those which Cleombrotus, a most studious philosopher, saw, and partly of Carpasian flax (Ozell's correction.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
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When After it has been sufficiently broken, the small shivers must be swingled out, as we swingle Flax.
John Adams diary 9, includes notes and draft essay, 1 - 11 February 1763, [June - July 1763]
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It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made; the wool was shorn from the sheep, which were so scarce that they were never killed for their flesh, except by the wolves, which were very fond of mutton, but had no use for wool.
Stories Of Ohio
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Though almost all research on lignans has centered on flaxseed lignans, there are concerns regarding the content of cyanogenic glycosides in flaxseeds and the potential for oxidation of ground flaxseed powder and flaxseed oil.
Forever Young
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To her, prudence was the true method of making your fortune; good management consisted in filling your granaries with wheat, rye, and flax, and waiting for a rise at the risk of being called a monopolist, and clinging to those grain-sacks obstinately.
Beatrix
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Ivy climbed over the stones and other plants - toadflax, herb robert, wild strawberries, primroses - grew in a splendid profusion.
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Toast whole wheat bread, slather with almond butter or peanut butter, and then sprinkle flaxseeds on top.
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Vegetable fibers are composed chiefly of cellulose and may be classed as short fibers, e.g., cotton and kapok; or long fibers, including flax, hemp, Manila hemp, istle, ramie, sisal hemp, and Spanish moss.
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~ Flaxseed Halts Prostate Cancer Growth New Study Shows -- "A new US study suggests that flaxseed, which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids and lignans, can stop prostate cancer tumours from growing.
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Models will show off a range of garments made from hemp, nettle, flax, kapok, peat, bamboo, cellulose fibres and a new polymer made from starch called PLA, plus animal fibres including wool, angora, alpaca, mohair and llama.
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Prior to that, cushions were stuffed with flax, cotton or other padded materials and the result was fairly deadening.
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If linen was wanted, the flax was sown and weeded, pulled and retted, then broken and swingled, for all of which processes nearly a year was required before the flax was ready for the spinners, bleaching on the grass, and making and wearing.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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Flax seeds, flaxseed flour and flaxseed meal are also good dietary sources of phytoestrogens.
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Lying on the top of the salt-box was a bunch of fairy flax, and sewed in the folds of her own scapular was the dust of what had once been a four-leaved shamrock, an invaluable specific for seein the good people, if they happened to come within the bounds of vision.
The Lianhan Shee
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There are several kinds of dodders: some live entirely on flax, some on nettles, but those that stick to clover and furze-bushes are the most common in this country.
Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
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With her flaxen hair and happy smile, she was a diminutive replica of her mother: her life predicted in that rosy face.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The farmer passed handfuls of flax through a tool called a flax brake to break up the hard inner core.
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Perhaps he imagines that the flax is first bundled and then beaten (swingled), though that would go against the flailing process which is normally done on a threshing floor.
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Handmade utensils have been produced since the beginning of the nineteenth century; the primary textiles are wool and flax.
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Ms. Moskowitz has published recipes in which, in lieu of eggs, flax seeds are ground into meal, then blended with water to form what she calls "flax goop.
Is That Cupcake Vegan or Just Butter- and Egg-Free?
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Since then we have planted cabbage trees, flaxes, saltmarsh ribbonwoods, kowhais, ngaios, mahoes, matais, podocarps, kahikateas, manukas, wineberries, toitois and olearias in their thousands.
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Coming up beside her, he looked with interest at her own small paper factory: a dozen big, fired-clay basins, each filled with scraps of used paper, worn-out scraps of silk and cotton, flax fibers, the soft pith of cattail reeds, and anything else she could get her hands on that might be useful, torn to shreds or ground small in a quern.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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A multi-vitamin, fish oil, flaxseed oil, calcium, B-vitamins, magnesium, glucosamine and vitamin E.
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The word "flax" is derived from _filare_, to spin, or, _filum_, a thread; and the botanical title, _linum_, is got from the Celtic _lin_ also signifying thread.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax.
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It is woven into muslins, dimities, cloths, calicoes, &c.; and is also joined with silks and flax, in the composition of other stuffs, and in working with the needle.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
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His sickly white skin busied itself with actively resisting the urge to create melanin, so as to not contrast with his tightly cropped flaxen hair.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Other things about your characters that rarely matter
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Sometimes a little brewer’s yeast, wheat germ, nonfat dry milk or flaxseed is added to the mixture.
Feeding the Mascotas
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The gelding shook his thick, flaxen mane and nickered at his master.
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If moisturising is continuous over the hygroscope moisture content then flax can mould even during a couple of days.
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Here I might refer to the observations concerning the invisible dimorphous state of the flowers of the normal toad-flax.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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To prevent any such accident, the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle.
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But then he moved, and the candle caught the sheen of flaxen hair.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Some accounts of the battle say that the English archers had kept their flax bowstrings dry by putting them under their helmets as it had been raining the day before.
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Women prepared and preserved food, made medicines, and used spinning wheels, looms, and needles to turn wool and flax into clothing.
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Blend on high for several minutes, until the mixture is "gloppy" like slightly beaten egg whites, with little brown flecks of flax skin throughout.
Notes from the Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table
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The young and tender nettle is an excellent pot-herb and the stalks are good as flax for making cloth.
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Flax mills were built on the north-west side of the Takaka Hill, producing fibre used for rope, sacks, upholstery stuffing and linen.
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The captain and his crew on the brig Elizabeth exchanged a cargo of flax for transport to Akaroa.
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Raw flax and wool was spun into yarn, this was then dyed or bleached, woven into cloth and then cut and sewn into the garments their families needed.
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In a blender, combine the water and flaxseeds at high speed until the mixture is "gloppy" like egg whites and you can only see flecks of flaxseed.
CHAI BROWNIES WITH GINGER GELATO
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flaxen locks
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I take two tablespoons of flaxseed oil every day for the essential fatty acids.
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By guarding against these effects with flax oil your skin has a much better chance of surviving its annual ritualistic bake.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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The evidence for some kind of massive programmed rearrangement upon environmental induction in flax is unequivocal," he writes, "but inheritance of acquired changes has been an anathema to evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin's time.
2008 February - Telic Thoughts
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She doesn't seem interested in the flax kete I have made for her.
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Once pregnancy has progressed into the second trimester and once children reach puberty, the dangers of food poisoning and foodborne illnesses may again outweigh the mutagenic risks associated with phytochemicals (Flaxman and Sherman in press).
Archive 2005-06-01
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The scutched flax is drawn through iron combs which still further open the fiber.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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The first, wheel-engraving, was often centred on ancient forms, typically featuring Homeric themes from Flaxman applied to amphora and oinochee shaped decanters, ewers and vases.
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And did you know, for example, that the Parkland Walk contains such uncommon plants as ‘toadflax, black spleenwort and common broomrape’?
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Mesa of caesious polish floor tile, flaxen marble, the teak picture frame of ancient sweet patina adds refined flavor.
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The hand-painted, hand-dyed silk-velvet pillow is filled with chamomile, lavender, rosemary and flaxseed.
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As well as yielding such a nutritious oil, flax is a major force in the textile industry.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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Kiekie has climbing stems and long narrow flax-like leaves.
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The first process to which the freshly pulled flax is submitted is that of "rippling" or the removal of the seed capsules.
Textiles and Clothing
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There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
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Below in the barn black Cæsar sat quietly hatchelling flax, sometimes gurgling and giggling to himself with an overflow of that interior jollity with which he seemed to be always full.
Oldtown Fireside Stories
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Besides the painted cup there are classed in this group the mullen, the common toad-flax, the foxglove, the gerardias, and the calceolarias.
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The dictionary says a scutcher is someone who separates the valuable fibers of, flax for example, from the woody parts by beating.
Give the Woman in the Bed More Porter
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L.L. COOL.J, RAPPER: Essential fats, flaxy (ph), things like that.
CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2002
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As well as yielding such a nutritious oil, flax is a major force in the textile industry.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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Growing right next door to the museum is all the food and materials for feasts, gifts and domestic appliances, such as raupo, ferns, lancewood, flaxes (harakeke) and horopito.
NZ On Screen
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Flax-haired broomstick Hoccleve wrongly thought Geoffrey to be as moral a man as poor fretful Gower, and enshrined every half-baked piece of verse Geoffrey wrote in a hog's turd of unmeasured praise, whether it was a good Christly work or something that sank into sin.
A Complaint to His Purse
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Marie was blessed with a mane of flaxen hair which normally she wore plaited and doubly looped by ribbons at her neck.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Screens made from bamboo and birch branches as well as plantings (golden currant, white abutilon, and New Zealand flax) create privacy.
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Moments earlier he was presented with a traditional, ceremonial coat, a korowai made of flax and kiwi feathers.
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Environmentally friendly alternatives include sheep's wool, flax, loose-fill cellulose, wooden fibreboard, cork, hemp and recycled paper.
Times, Sunday Times
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But after she concocted a homemade granola cereal using soybeans and a grain called flaxseed, her menopausal symptoms went away.
CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2001
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Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short – legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.
Bleak House
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The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas, and prairie smoke.
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Other Cretan agricultural products are carob beans, fava, mountain tea, broad beans, oregano and flax.
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Stir in half the whole wheat flour, oil, sunflower seeds, flaxseed, salt and ginger.
