2379 examples of spin in sentences

The old Doctor had hired several of these damsels to assist in getting in his olive crop, with the customary additional compact to spin some of the unwrought flax of the household when bad weather prevented their out-of-door work, as well as regularly in the evening between early dusk and bed-time.

There was an Old Man of the West, Who never could get any rest; So they set him to spin on his nose and his chin, Which cured that Old Man of the West.

It was so dreadful that she could only scream, and spin round and round like a top.

Beauchene, who was accompanying them as far as the gate, bareheaded and ever sturdy and victorious, gayly exclaimed to his wife: "Give the youngster a good spin on his legs!

"It won't take me long to spin my yarn; for things are pretty taut and ship-shape aboard our craft.

The idle and burdensome poor are also sent here; and by this means the whole neighborhood is relieved from poor-rates, except for the support of a few individuals who spin, &c., in the poor-house.

Through the winter and on rainy days in summer, the women of the field had to card the wool and spin it into yarn.

And we show them by our manner that we're mighty pleased they came, For there's something real about it, and the yarns we love to spin, And the time flies, Oh, so swiftly when a few good friends drop in.

But now the rain is over, let the pressers spin the screw, Let the teamsters back the waggons in again,

Right opposite stands Tactus, strongly mann'd With three thousand bristled urchens for his pikemen, Four hundred tortoises for elephants; Besides a monstrous troop of ugly spiders, Within an ambushment he hath commanded Of their own guts to spin a cordage fine, Whereof t'have fram'd a net (O wondrous work!)

The propellers commenced to spin, and down the slight slope they ran with constantly increasing speed.

"But why couldn't you take the spin in his company, Tom?

In this country the men card and spin, and not the women; and the old men are very comely.

Nor words, as voyd of Reason, as of Rithme, Only cesura'd to spin out the time.

Peter Siner looked out at the interminable spin of the landscape with a certain wistfulness.

His head seemed to spin around and around.

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.

"How prettily that little thing turns round!" said the princess, and took the spindle and began to spin.

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.

Spin, weave and wear.

Irmengarde Eberle (A); 3Jun69; R462118. Spin, weave and wear; the story of cloth, by Phyllis Ann Carter, pseud.

Spin a silver dollar; the story of a desert trading-post.

And by the way my thoughts are going, for all I know I may be booked to spin on through eternity.

I just drank in all the fragrance of joy in the eager comradeship and sweet friendliness of the small Mikados and Mikadoesses with a keen delight that made the hours spin like minutes.

During the second month she still stayed in her hammock, but her rule of abstinence was less rigid, and she was allowed to spin.

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