Old women with their distaffs rush out on a distressed Cellarer in shrill Chartism.
On festival evenings, and especially at carnival times, the lads treated their sweethearts to a late supper and a dance; and escorted them home, carrying their distaffs and spindles.
The women had distaffs and heavy spindles, by means of which they spun a kind of coarse pack-thread, which the children wound up, sitting on stools at their feet.
The Duke of Egypt pointed sadly to the two streams of boiling lead which did not cease to streak the black facade, like two long distaffs of phosphorus.
In the deserted avenue the old cherry-trees lifted their white distaffs of blossom, and in the cup of each flower the spring sun was resting.
Distaffs as well as spindles of gold and of ivory were ascribed to goddesses, and were presented to distinguished women.
Moreover, their distaffs and spindles had something peculiar, and no spinster might so finely and nimbly spin the thread.
In Upper Austria the girls must finish their spinning by Christmas; if Frau Berch finds flax still on their distaffs she will be angered and send them bad luck.
On this evening, too, girls are afraid to spin lest in the morning they should find their distaffs twisted, the threads broken, and the yarn in confusion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distaffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
