Spun

Examples

• He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They spun on the left foot, and kept themselves going by passing the right rapidly before it and digging it against the waxed floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Percolators of this type are made by the manufacturer from sheet copper spun in perfect shape, and also aluminum spun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Simultaneously the little boat spun around and shot out toward the Gulf Stream like an agitated and very erratic rocket, flinging great sheets of spray high into the air as it sped. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Prior to the invention of the _spinning-jenny_, the loose fibre was spun into yarns and thread by hand on the old-fashioned spinning wheel, each thread requiring the attention of one person. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• American hemp was used, this softer fiber being spun by hand long after Manila hemp was spun by machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You would have a very mean opinion of a Manchester man if he spun cotton for no other purpose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The big fellow spun around like a top, his knees gave beneath him and he crumpled to the ground at my feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I am not immortal; and the thread of my history might be spun out to the limits of my existence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My thread is spun out--thy task is yet to begin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One is that they may be spun out almost interminably, even, possibly, to the end of the life of the patent; the other is that the judge who decides the case does not see the witnesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Matting is woven; wire, cane, straw, spun glass; in fact, everything that can be woven by hand into useful articles now finds its especially constructed machine for weaving it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The glen and sky spun round: the hills heaved! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It had a precision of action that resulted in a much greater regularity in the spun thread than by the earlier process. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then the car was resting on the differential again, and the wheels spun freely in the holes they had dug. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The wheels spun round throwing brush and mud. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• By both these methods only a single thread at a time was spun. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The enormously increased quantity of cotton spun by Arkwright’s machinery made a demand for increased facilities for weaving it into cloth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Vandura silk was spun from an aqueous solution of gelatine by forcing it through a fine capillary tube, but it attained little or no practical value. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And that I thus became immeshed in the web he had spun for my reception? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• May the evil demon Zernebock tear me limb from limb, if I leave my own cell ere I have spun out the hemp on my distaff! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His idea was that cotton could be spun by rollers, and he said that this thought occurred to him as he happened to watch a red-hot iron bar lengthened out by passing between two rollers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The wheels spun and we pushed and pushed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Waltzers spun around precariously for a matter of fifteen seconds and then went scurrying down to the rail as if they meant to go overboard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Most of them spun around forty times in a minute, and one artist averaged about sixty-one times a minute, and kept it up during the whole twenty-five. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Throwing off the belt and disconnecting the wires, he spun the armature around by hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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