Spinner

Examples

• The mule spinner shown in Fig. 287 is a good modern example of this machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In most parts of Scotland, she is a good spinner who can earn twentypence a-week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rovings of cotton went under a bar-clasp that took the place of the spinner’s finger and thumb. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Following these important inventions came the mule spinner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Far more important historically were the experiments and ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Manchester cotton-spinner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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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