flaxen locks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
My hair would have been called flaxen by a poet, and until recently had fallen almost to my waist. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
A funny kind of flaxen grey, she bundled up and tied round, without any cap or anything else on her head. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe] Reference
His hair was returning to it's normal flaxen state. From Wordnik.com. [Where's the show?] Reference
The flaxen, the auburn, the brown hair alike take black. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
She was flaxen-haired, pink-cheeked, and not too slender. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
"I was just a-going to ask where she got that fairy flaxen hair?". From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Long thin flaxen hair just like her mother's, trailed after her. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, Chapter 15] Reference
Sometimes she appeared to us as a soft flaxen-haired beauty, not unlike. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Mrs. Ashton, glancing in a mirror at her own faded flaxen hair, sighed. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
She was a tall girl, with heavy, flaxen hair and quiet, steel-gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
The man released her, and, to her surprise, gently touched her flaxen hair. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Her hair was a shaded and glossy flaxen now, and her eyes were a darker blue. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
He was a red sorrel with three white feet and legs and a flaxen mane and tail. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
"And here's yours," said Rose, as she laid it lightly upon Polly's flaxen curls. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference
Her flaxen hair shone in whatever light there was falling out of the hot summer night. From Wordnik.com. [Lynda, The First] Reference
And the child's face was very like Mrs. Ashton's, the same flaxen hair and light blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
If only she had flaxen hair like Kimberly's, he thought, then he would not hesitate a moment. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
She looks tenderly at the pale, flaxen lock of hair, which grew on little Beth's baby forehead. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Emmy was a lanky child of fourteen or so, with slack, flaxen hair and a perfectly colorless face. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
I patted their flaxen curls, lightly pinched their cheeks, and handed each of them a sweet biscuit. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Alice's attention was caught by the sight of a flaxen-haired doll lying beside Diana in the hammock. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
Vivian had a thin nose and long flaxen hair that dropped straight down to her waist. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, Chapter 15] Reference
He was a pear-shaped Texan with watery blue eyes and flaxen hair pasted across the reddish dome of his skull. From Wordnik.com. [’] Reference
The Caretaker merges her eye with the actress 'eye and draws from her bag the image of the flaxen haired man. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
So the two great heroes took the flaxen net and hastened back to the lake and began to drag for the Fire-fish. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
"Hedebo" needlework is the finest stitchery you can well imagine, wrought on home-spun linen with flaxen thread. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
It was always herds of Roofers, swaying in unison, with flaxen wigs, scarlet legs, boyish voices; and "families,". From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Frequently wash the hair with the fluid, and it will change it, we are told, in a short time to a beautiful flaxen color. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Female writers always comb out smoothly the flaxen hair of their heroes, and dress them up in the frockcoat of innocence. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Santy himself helped her to tear off the wrappings; and lo and behold! it was a great big doll with blue eyes and flaxen hair. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
On its cover is a very old photo of her only child, a flaxen-haired toddler in a striped shirt who appears to be waving goodbye. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior Returns] Reference
"He is angry," she said to her friend the Little China Doll next to her, with the two long flaxen pigtails hanging down her back. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
They did this, inquiring of every one they met whether a little blue - eyed and flaxen-haired child had been seen wandering about. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in Washington] Reference
John's was a back seat, thanks to skillful maneuvering on the opening day of school, and flaxen-haired Olga occupied the desk ahead. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
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