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  • Flax is cultivated more easily than cotton and has little need for pesticides, fertilizers, or water.

    Linen Totes from Hable Construction 2007

  • Flax is cultivated more easily than cotton and has little need for pesticides, fertilizers, or water.

    July 2007 2007

  • For instance, the oldest girl, who had soft blue eyes and flaxen curls, was called Flax Flower; the little boy, who came next, and had very red cheeks and loved to sleep late in the morning, was called Poppy Flower, and so on.

    The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • If you look about the web today, you will find a poem of mine, "Flax," at Goblin Fruit and rather the mark of either being an honorary New Yorker or just spending way too much time there--I sent something into Overheard in NY and it'll be on the site today.

    Cat at Large yuki_onna 2007

  • Seed of the Flax; so that the last Matter of the Flax which is Paper, must again be dissolved into the first Matter, which is the fat

    Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. Basilius Valentinus

  • (Article 'Flax' in Balfour, _Cyclopaedia_, 3rd ed.) 4.

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • 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 mrissa 2010

  • At the after-party I put him in his place by saying β€œIs that an erect annual plant in your codpiece, Mr. Flax, or are you just glad to see me?”

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2012

  • Daniel Flax, chief information officer of TheStreet.com Inc., said the company is purchasing smartphones and tablet computers for its workers.

    Dollars Flow Back Into Tech Spencer E. Ante 2011

  • 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.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway the_overqual 2010

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