Sentence examples for spinning flax from inspiring English sources
"I want every woman spinning flax for sails!" he yells.
Prof. Suhr is convinced that the Aphrodite was originally carved in the attitude of a woman spinning flax or wool but without implements.
"Useful" is Roberts' favourite adjective to describe the site, and in the course of our conversation at the company's bright north London office (where the most obvious decoration is a giant poster of fairytale goblin Rumpelstiltskin spinning flax into gold), she uses it several times.
Let's make some bets: What will take longer, Ser Jorah curing his own greyscale and returning to support Dany as she takes over the Seven Kingdoms, or Euron Greyjoy's remaining Ironborn spinning flax into sails, planting trees, cutting them down, and hammering together a bunch of boats?
With his wife Lila, he was a generous donor of Old Master paintings and drawings, making possible the acquisition of Caravaggio's "Denial of Saint Peter" and giving a number of outstanding works in recent years, including Michiel Sweerts' "Man Holding a Jug," Ingres' "The Virgin Adoring the Host," and Bonvin's "A Woman Spinning Flax".
The Leffertses, the house's 18th-century owners, spun flax, their main cash crop, into linen.
The Lefferts, the house's 18th-century owners, spun flax into linen, their main cash crop.
Yves's wife, Adelada, spins flax and wool, and sings as she works: "Yes, I love my old man Yves / Yes, indeed, it's true.
The real threat, he said, comes from the "crazy ones" who really believe they've found ways to spin flax into gold.
I'm pleased Fragoso has spun her flax into gold, but the cynic in me can't help but feel it was, in part, published to capitalise on the inevitable controversy, thereby continuing the cycle of exploitation.
