Flax Dressing

Word FLAX DRESSING
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The word "flax-dressing" in example sentences

His first effort, at eighteen, to better his condition, by the study of surveying at a neighboring town, resulted chiefly in throwing him into contact with bad companions; a venture in the business of flax-dressing ended in disaster; and the same ill-fortune attended the several successive attempts which he made at general farming. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

Still, even should our pseudo bride and bridegroom each indulge in a rapid day-dream, it must quickly come to an end, seeing that they have speedily to put off their fancy attire and attend that night to the flax-dressing. ❋ Various (N/A)

Irvine, hoping that in this flax-dressing center they could increase their income by dressing the flax raised on their own farm. ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)

In 1771 the family move to Lochlea, and Burns went to the neighboring town of Irvine to learn flax-dressing. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The flax-dressing experiment ended disastrously with a fire which burned the workshop, and Burns returned penniless to the farm. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

In order to put himself in a position to marry, he determined to learn the trade of flax-dressing; and though Ellison refused him, he went to the neighboring seaport of Irvine to carry out his purpose in the summer of 1781. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

With these specimens are skeins of thread, spindles, and knitting-needles; bronze sewing needles; and a hackle for flax-dressing. ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)

Irvine was at that time a centre of the flax-dressing art, and as ❋ John Campbell Shairp (1852)

Burns was robbed by his partner in trade, his flax-dressing shop was burnt to the ground by fire during the carousal of a New Year's morning, and himself, impaired in purse, in spirits, and in character, returned to Lochlea to find misfortunes thickening round his family, and his father on his death-bed. ❋ John Campbell Shairp (1852)

[This was written by Burns in his twenty-third year, when learning flax-dressing in Irvine, and is the earliest of his letters which has reached us. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

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