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Mr. FECHTER presents HAMLET as a perfect "flaxy;" partly in deference to the present popularity of the tint, and partly to show a marked contrast with his OTHELLO, which character he always makes up as a male brunette.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 Various

And the body beneath, the spindly thing she carried through the world, chalk pale mostly, and speckled hands with high veins, and cropped hair that was fine and flaxy gray, and her bluesteel eyes—many a boy and girl of old saw those peepers in their dreams.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

And the body beneath, the spindly thing she carried through the world, chalk pale mostly, and speckled hands with high veins, and cropped hair that was fine and flaxy gray, and her bluesteel eyes—many a boy and girl of old saw those peepers in their dreams.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

And the body beneath, the spindly thing she carried through the world, chalk pale mostly, and speckled hands with high veins, and cropped hair that was fine and flaxy gray, and her bluesteel eyes—many a boy and girl of old saw those peepers in their dreams.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

I will take another look but I think their unstructured flaxy thing is becoming too much a kind of uniform for liberal clergy gals, and anytime that happens PeaceBang must stand against it.

Where Do Fat Girls Shop? PeaceBang 2006

L.L. COOL.J, RAPPER: Essential fats, flaxy (ph), things like that.

CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2002 2002

It seemed to him it was all-white, flaxy sheets of linen, or sifted snow a-falling that he saw there through a rift in the mist.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

She was walking slowly, because she saw, coming toward her, a portly lady, with hair so flaxy that no gray would show in it.

Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way William Osborn Stoddard 1880

However, three children on the back seat, dressed in the same style, with the addition of long flaxy ringlets, made very passable

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784