The officer and three or four marines continued to load and fire, until the boat was out of the harbor, when a strong breeze struck her sails and sent her spinning over the water.

Then I saw her spin and weave this flax into a magic coat.

and, ignorant how else to help herself out of her trouble, she promised the Dwarf what he desired; and he immediately set about and finished the spinning.

Up early in the morning, we beat some grass close by the stream, and roused out an enormous boar that gave us a three mile spin and a good fight, after Pat had given him first spear.

BecausebecauseI will not let her spin.

Butshe checked her spinning of romancethis youth was too genuine a cowboy, the way he rode, the way he moved, held himself, his phrases, his turn of speech!

She poked smiling through their kitchens and bedrooms, and gained more information than might have been expected concerning their spinning and weaving, cheerfully spending ten minutes in signs to obtain a single idea.

On allowing one of these animals to crawl over his hand, he found that it drew a thread with it wherever it went: he likewise, without any difficulty, wound some of this thread over his hand, finding that the spider continued spinning while the thread was winding up.

Another dance the dancers spin, A shadow-dance of mystic pain, And other partners enter in And dance within my lonely brain

They listened to the story of cotton-mills as fairy dreams, exclaiming: "How can iron spin, weave, and print?

My thread always broke, and at last I had to "fake" my spinning to a certain extent; but at least I worked my wheel right, and gave an impression that I could spin my pound of thread a day with the best.

When the yarn leaves the spinning frame, or the twisting frame, it is made up according to requirements, and the general operations which follow spinning and twisting are,reeling, cop-winding, roll or spool winding, mill warping or link warping.

A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor RICHARD says, and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women, for Tea, forsook spinning and knitting; And men, for Punch, forsook hewing and splitting.

"Some scorcher or amateur racer, probably," I said, "who takes the opportunity of getting a spin on the wood pavement when the streets are empty."

"It is an extraordinary subject, and I can only say here that the human vibration may not be insulated from the astral (as is always believed to be the case, in interferences by the Ab-human), without immediate action being taken by those Forces which govern the spinning of the outer circle.

"All right!" says Bobby, philosophically, walking away; "I am sure I do not mind, only I had a fancy for having one more spin with you.

Lanyard couldn't see the face of the built-in safe, but he could hear the spinning of the combination manipulated by Monk's long and bony fingers.

I done de cookin, mosly, an helped my mammy spin.

Isis was said to invent spinning and weaving: mankind before that time were clothed with the skins of animals.

" She answers that talk of matron dignities and household tasks wearies her: "I would renounce them all for Sappho's bay: Forego them all for room to chant out free The silent rhythms I hum within my heart, And so for ever leave my weary spinning!" Margaret J. Preston, Old Song and New.

"I can take you ladies to Yolanda if you'd like a spin in the open better than a stuffy ride in the train.

I don't think you've had very much chance of making my money spin, eh, Mrs. Tadman?" The widow cast up her hands and eyes towards the ceiling of the parlour where they were sitting.

Those who prefer a spin of a few hours on a good road in the open air to a close church and a dull sermon, surely have the right to choose, whether with trees and flowers and singing birds to worship in "That temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," or within four walls to sleep during the intonation of that melancholy service that relegates us all, without distinction of sex or color, to the ranks of "miserable sinners."

I promised Worth a little spin on the river before dinner.

It so revolutionized spinning and weaving that the resulting increased demand for cotton fiber gave rise to the plantation system of the South, which required a larger number of slaves.