Many of the Indians are using dyed yarns to weave them, but yours is the genuine article, made from white goat's wool, long and soft, and dyed only in the native reds and blacks.

The handkerchiefs were used to relieve the pressure in places, and rope-yarns from the ratlin stuff furnished the means of securing everything in its place.

We have yarns by the hour together, but if he's billeted in the Hare and Hounds, or any other public-house, for that matter, I don't know what he'll do.

He was with a rather gay crowd of boys at the time, and several had told "shady" yarns, and then they had called for one from Frank.

Ye think they'll take yer yarns when they find ye went in the Kut Sang, as the whole Sailors' Home knows?

People who read all these yarns of mine, and who have known the war in later days, will say, "Ah, how very different it was then to now."

They cheered us with the usual exaggerated and harrowing yarns common to such people, and passed on.

She'd spen' hours lookin' over the side in a calmwe had no enginean' she'd listen to all the yarns.

She loved to 'ear my yarns of the sea.

To me, with "Two Years Before the Mast" and Clark Russell's galley yarns churning in my mind, it was sweeter far than ever siren voiced to lure her victims to their death, and rough and tarry as was the shanty-man, Caruso had never seemed to me such a glorious figure.

One of the chief amusements of the evening was the spinning of long yarns about the incidents of the late voyage, by men who could spin them well.

I told her long yarns of how I had spent my time at the Beechams; of the deafening duets Harold and I had played on the piano; and how he would persist in dancing with me, and he being so tall and broad, and I so small, it was like being stretched on a hay-rack, and very fatiguing.

*** A shortage of paper yarns is reported from Germany.

BRAY, HELEN A. Textile fibers, yarns and fabrics.

Thirteen ghostly yarns.

U.S. Mr. Lincoln's funnybone; wherein the White House joker retells his best yarns & fables.

" Williams, the great authority on Fijians, says that "Commodore Wilkes's account of Fijian marriages seems to be compounded of Oriental notions and Ovalan yarns" (147).

Yvard had been beforehand with me: and I had to under-run about a hundred of his lying yarns before I could even enter the end of an idea of my own" "You speak Italian, sir, like a Neapolitan born; and I depended on your doing everything as it should have been.

A group of Syrians by the window broke into an unexpected altercation, which had to be quelled by a court officer, and when quiet was restored the jury seemed but slightly attentive to the precisely similar yarns of Nicola Abbu, Menheem Shikrie, Fajal Mokarzel and David Elias, especially as the minutes of the Grand Jury showed that they had sworn to three entirely different sets of facts regarding the cause of Babu's death.

It has all the elements of revenge, of coercion, and of trapping, of wily give-and-take, and of simple and logical gambling uncertainty, which characterize the most popular of the Arabian Nights yarns and which have made those tales remain as Syrian classics for more than ten centuries.

In their extremity of want, they took up part of the floor of the cabin, and patched up a sort of tray with rope-yarns, to paddle on shore to get a little water to preserve their lives.

Cotton manufactures, L.17,567,310 Yarns, 7,101,308

Linen yarns, entered for 15,534,391 ...

DEWSBURY (73), a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 8 m. SW. of Leeds; engaged in the manufacture of woollens, blankets, carpets, and yarns.

It is built specially for winding heavy or thick yarns into rolls of 15 in.