197 collocations for spun

The cream wouldn't whip, but remained exasperatingly fluid; the sugar refused to "spin a thread," and obstinately crystallised itself into a hard crust; the almonds persisted in becoming a lumpy mass, instead of a smooth paste; and the gelatine, as Patty despairingly remarked, "acted like all possessed!"

We'll spin Crewe a yarn that we are depending on it as a clue.

He dressed in haste, ran out, and found that the thread had got entangled amongst the bushes on its way to the wheel, and had stuck fast; whereupon the wheel had broken it to get loose, and had been spinning round and round all night for nothing, like the useless thing it was before.

While we talked of this "war to end war," the diplomatists of the Powers allied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, were answering aggression by schemes of aggression, were seeing in the treacherous violence of Germany only the justification for countervailing evil acts.

Down the street of the village, which was very straggling, with nearly as many little gardens as houses in it, there was a house occupied by several poor people, in one end of which, consisting just of a room and a closet, an old woman lived who got her money by spinning flax into yarn for making linen.

Many spiders spin webs to capture their prey.

In the garret I saw the spindles for spinning cotton and wool, and the hand looms for weaving the homespun.

Over the room where we sat, a girl was spinning wool with a great wheel, and singing an Erse song: 'I'll warrant you, (said Dr. Johnson.)

They chatted, they told stories, they found fault, they speculated, they spun out the time.

Finally we spun a dollar to decide upon which of us lay the brutal duty of turning away the stranger within our gates.

Suppose I should spin 'em all my li'l tale of griefwhat then, Mr. Pooley?" "StillI wouldn't know the name McFluke," maintained Mr. Pooley.

The author has spun a somewhat improbable story as the thread for his reflections on Art and his reminiscences of artists and travel.

There was no special reason beyond the heat and worry to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o'clock and the machines spun their fly-wheels two and three times to see that all was in order, before I said the word that would set them off, I could have shrieked aloud.

Even now I always spin out a ball of string behind me when I am going far into the catacomb.

How to spin beautiful concrete pottery and garden ornaments with simple equipment; the Hollywood Cementcraft System; Instruction.

They knit from about 60 to 100 pairs of stockings and socks every month, and they spin a little.

RUMPELSTILTSKIN There was once a poor Miller who had a beautiful daughter, and one day, having to go to speak with the King, he said, in order to make himself appear of consequence, that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold.

They may be recognized by the way in which they spin out their thoughts to the greatest possible length; then, too, by the very nature of their thoughts, which are only half-true, perverse, forced, vacillating; again, by the aversion they generally show to saying anything straight out, so that they may seem other than they are.

"Fare thee well, good fool," said he, "I leave thee to thy dreams; God send they be ever fair" "Gold!" cried the jester, spinning the coin upon his thumb, "ha, now do I dream indeed; may thy waking be ever as joyous.

On the outskirts of one town, half a dozen little children stopped spinning tops in the road to demand tribute from the train.

The throstles referred to are the common throstles spinning 34's twist for power loom weaving, and the spindles make 4000 turns per minute.

That is Lucrezia Borgian, spun gold, and ought to take the world in its toils.

Mother cooked, washed, ironed and spun four cuts a day.

He cannot indeed write a sentence, but perhaps he may be able to spin a line.

They this year succeeded admirably in spinning twenty-four pounds of raw silk, the want of a chimney and proper basins, which had impeded them before, in their rude building, having been remedied.

197 collocations for  spun