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Example sentences for "flaxen"

Lexicographically close words:
flawed; flawes; flawless; flaws; flax; flaxseed; flay; flayed; flaying; flea
  1. The breath of the fire stirred Tennessee's flaxen hair.

  2. Some one else came out; a fair, tall girl with great braids of flaxen hair and a silver comb in the top to make her look taller still.

  3. The fair flaxen head was on the shoulder half hidden by the protecting arm.

  4. She has real flaxen hair and such a complexion!

  5. Her dull flaxen hair was in a Psyche knot, and fell in a fringe upon her brow.

  6. A tall ungraceful young woman of some six or seven-and-twenty with flaxen hair and pale blue eyes--not a beauty by any means.

  7. Fragments of that flaxen cloth have been discovered.

  8. Thro' the leaves and roses she scarce could see His head with its flaxen curls, `His rosy cheeks, and his velvet coat With its buttons of milky pearls.

  9. Sweet little Ruth, with her flaxen hair All neatly braided and tied, `Was sitting one old December day At her pretty mother's side.

  10. His beard was as white as snow, All Flaxen was his poll.

  11. She described Mrs. Morville with beautiful blue eyes and flaxen hair, looking pale and delicate, and with clinging caressing ways like a little child afraid to be left.

  12. She was pale and sickly-looking, but her eyes were of a lovely deep blue, with a very sweet expression, and a profusion of thick flaxen curls hung round her neck and shoulders.

  13. The emerald shade brought out all the values of her coloring, the faint rose of her complexion, the daffodil gold of her flaxen hair.

  14. He didn't want to be at enmity with anybody, least of all with this dainty sprite of a woman with the cornflower eyes and the flaxen hair.

  15. It made Miss Baring's fresh, clear complexion a shade too bright in the carmine, which took off the greyness of the flaxen hue and relieved the cold and steel-like gleam in her grey-blue eyes.

  16. The pretty girl, with the crown of azalea hanging awry on her flaxen tresses, and her flounce of pink tarlatan held disconsolately in her hand, looked for one dreadful instant as if she were about to burst into tears.

  17. Not at all, you will not deprive me in the least," stammered my father, blushing up to his ears, while his straight flaxen hair appeared literally to rise with embarrassment.

  18. She rose, tall, slender and frail in her crape, like a queen who mourns, with little touches of gold in her flaxen hair, where a small jet aigrette glittered like a black mirror.

  19. Netta knelt, and the garland was thrown over her flaxen curls.

  20. Do you not see the hair of the man you would accuse is black as midnight, while you affirm that of the one who fired my mansion to have been of a flaxen hue?

  21. She was a pretty child, in a white frock and blue sash, and she wore a wreath of small rosebuds on her curly, flaxen hair.

  22. Very dainty and sweet the little Queen looked, with her long flaxen curls hanging down from the extra gorgeous gilt-paper crown, that Marjorie had made specially for this occasion.

  23. His flaxen hair was parted down the middle, and he looked uncommonly simple.

  24. With her flaxen curls fallen about her head and mingling with the snow, and her little arms and neck exposed, and her pretty white frock all wet, she lay there in the deep hole.

  25. She was delicate-featured, blue-eyed, had curling flaxen hair.

  26. She could not see the sun shining on their fair flaxen heads and pretty faces.

  27. I have no doubt as delicate and plump and rosy as the white hand with its two rings, which he passes in impassioned moments through his slender flaxen hair.

  28. If, after two or three of these delightful evenings, they ceased to attend her receptions, she shook her little flaxen head, and sadly intimated that Mr. A.

  29. At the door stood three armed men; two had the long flaxen hair which proclaimed them Goths, the third was Venantius.

  30. One child on his knee and one on his shoulder pulling his hair, which was all ruffled and on end, a laugh upon his face, a dancing light in his eyes as if he felt happy and at home among all the little flaxen heads.

  31. The little girl who was a head taller than Sigmund, had quantities of flaxen hair plaited in a pigtail and tied with light blue ribbon--new; and a sweet face which was a softened girl miniature of her brother's.

  32. Peggy's flaxen hair and blue eyes had been a revelation to the young man, accustomed to dark beauties all his life, and he found "Cosine Paygi" a charming companion.

  33. She certainly was an object, poor dear child, but Rita was so absorbed in her play that she saw nothing absurd even in a tyrant scowling through flaxen eyebrows with a pair of helpless, frightened blue eyes.

  34. She is seen washing white clothes at fountains, milking cows, spinning flax with a distaff, or combing her flaxen hair.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flaxen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beige; blond; buff; canary; cream; creamy; ecru; fallow; gilded; gilt; gold; golden; lemon; primrose; sallow; sandy; straw; yellow