Theirs were the lower walks--to spin the linen and to make the bread and carry on the housework.
His carriage came to the door, and he drove off with Mr. Valentine as fast as his horses could spin him along the hilly, wretched roads.
It was decided then to take a spin in the car and the four friends were soon in their accustomed places on the red leather seats.
That afternoon, after school, when the four friends assembled in the carriage shed for their usual spin home in Billie's motor car, they found a note stuck conspicuously between the cushion and the back of the seat.
I am sorry you won't have some tea and cake, but I suppose you are all off for a spin this afternoon.
When the morning alarm goes off you have only to spin the disk and dress in comfort beside the radiator.
Try to roll an apple around a pumpkin and meanwhile spinthe pumpkin.
On rising you fold away your bed and spin the circle for your tub.
It is their place of shelter and their watch-tower; their nightly resort, where they smoke the pipe of peace and good fellowship, and spin yarns, or take such repose as the nature of their calling will admit of.
The fibers are laid parallel in order to spin a smooth compact yarn, or they are crossed and intermingled to produce a soft bulky yarn.
The people around Pittsfield soon realized that the mechanically carded wool was not only much easier to spin but enabled them to produce twice as much yarn from the same amount of wool.
You'll come down low then, so as you can examine the villages as you spin along.
If you professedly use a borrowed coin, you must adroitly change it for your own, under pretence of showing how to spin it, or the like.
If you spin the cent upon a very sharp steel needle, you will find that the needle will at length work its way completely through the coin.
You borrow a quarter, and spin it, or invite some other person to spin it, on the table (which must be without a cloth).
You allow it to spin itself out, and immediately announce, without seeing it, whether it has fallen head or tail upward.
We will hold that spin until balance is complete, when the spin will slowly be raised to two revolutions per minute, giving .
With that the Amerind sprang catlike to a hand-hold on the edge of the central tunnel and vanished back towards the engineering station, from which he would control the test-spin of the big wheel.
Mike attached his safety line to a guideline leading to the south polar lock and kicked off, satisfied that the lab was ready for the job of turning on the spin with which he would begin his three months tour of duty aboard.
But the computer had already taken over, and was controlling the flow of water to the hydrostatic balance tank system, rapidly orienting the axis of spin against the true axis of the wheel.
Spin deceleration will take effect in three minutes; and we are counting on my mark towards deceleration.
The fields generated in these coils are strong enough to process all the protons so that their axis of spin is brought into alignment.
The vats of plankton and algae concentrates were not so important as to orientation, but should be fed into their rim-river homes as soon as possible, although this could not be done until the rim spinwas well under control.
When the proper balance of plankton and algae was achieved, the air jets that gave the ship its spin would also purify the ship's air, giving it back in a natural manner the oxygen it was now fed from tanks.
On the zero signal Mike in the engineer's quarters would change the now idly-bubbling air jets in the rim-rivers over to the fully-directional drive jets necessary to spin the fluid in counter-rotation through the rim tanks.
The barometric displays held constant, with only fractional deviations that might have been imposed by the spin of the big wheel, or error in the instruments themselves.
Are her dominions in the world so narrow that she can find no place to spin cotton in but Yorkshire?
Indeed, the true use of gold in this world is only as a very pretty and very ductile clay, which you can spread as flat as you like, spin as fine as you like, and which will neither crack, nor tarnish.
I showed him how to plant and harvest corn, how to gather fibre, spin yarn and to weave it into cloth.
I used to make my top spin round with a cord; I wonder if I can use the cord here.
With slight inward trepidations I took it up for a spin after lunch.
The Scorpius could not maneuver while in a gravity spin and O’Brine wanted to be free to take action if necessary.
If the asteroid failed to stop its spin completely, they could always set off a small charge or two.
By using groups or combinations of steam tubes, the control officer could move the ship in any direction or set it rolling, spin it end over end or whirl it in an eccentric pattern.
XI Ay, like the circles which the sun doth spin Of gossamer, we end as we begin; Our feet are on the heads of those that pass, But ever their Graves around our Cradles grin.
He will spin out his patience to the utmost length, because he knows we are such bunglers at doing (Jer 9:24).
In a letter to Henry Reveley he pictures God as delighted with his creation of the earth, and seeing it spin round the sun; and imagines him taking out "patents to supply all the suns in space with the same manufacture.
That would be to spin out my narrative unnecessarily.
Several of us men took a spin this afternoon so that the women could have a little chat together.
Dinner won't be ready fer an hour, so we'll take a spin around fer awhile.
Like them, she would spin until all around her were giddy, while her own brain, instead of being disturbed, was excited to great action.
As Nig was no longer about to molest them, they grew very fearless, and used to spin up and down the garden path to and from their source of supplies in a way quite unusual with these timid creatures.
Satisfied that the coast was clear, he would spin along the top of the ground to the tree that bore the nuts, shoot up it as before, seize the fruit, and then back again to his retreat.
They abound in and on the water, they swarm in the grass and herbage, which everywhere glistens with the silvery veil they spinover it.
Looking like one insect, they spin rapidly round for a few moments, then up springs the wasp--victorious.
Our common long-legged spiders (Pholcus) when approached draw their feet together in the middle of the web, and spin the body round with such velocity as to resemble a whirligig.
So spiders do not spin or mend their webs when it is likely to rain, and if you see them with plenty of work on hand, you may take it as a sign of fine weather.
Kids that are brought up in the Belt are forced to exercise in a room with a one-gee spin on it at least an hour a day.
And an adult with any sense takes a spin now and then, too.
Preston advised her to write a novel, but she knew she had neither the patience to spin a long story through many chapters to its end, nor the gift of character portrayal.
Thou wert fashioned with a tail to wear behind, and I to spin a tale to leave but not to wear.
I tell thee, Telka, we then put us to hearth, and spin ye shall.
Do spin thy tale, but do ye first to leave me fetch the wee-squeals.
We then shall spin a tale by turn; and Telka, lass, I plucked a sweet bloom for thee to wear.
