Spinners

Examples

• In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• None but spinners were allowed within the circle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The influence of all the Lancashire cotton-spinners was aligned against his claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This old dried-up reservoir is occupied by a few ghostly silk-spinners now, and one of them showed me a cross cut high up in one of the pillars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Realizing the hostility to any improvement on the part of the cotton-spinners, he gave out that he was engaged in building a machine to solve the world-old problem of perpetual motion. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He traveled much through South Lancashire and Cheshire, and there he came in daily contact with the cotton-spinners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the spinners did not take kindly to this improvement. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The employer of the spinners would require an additional five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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