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Example sentences for "spinning wheel"

  • But a little while after he heard a whirring sound, exactly like a spinning wheel.

  • And so, too, she gave the lassie the golden spinning wheel.

  • Then he led her to a chamber in his palace where there was a great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning wheel, and said: "All this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.

  • It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel.

  • The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

  • Spinning wheel, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

  • As he hesitated, he heard the noise of a spinning wheel.

  • Hence it was no wonder he should know a spinning wheel when he heard it sing--even although as the bird of paradise to other birds was the song of that wheel to the song of his mother's.

  • No sooner was he in than he saw that the great revolving wheel in the sky was the princess's spinning wheel, near the other end of the room, turning very fast.

  • Tell him that I at my spinning wheel, Will sing while it turns and hums, And think all day of his love so leal, Until with the flute he comes.

  • A spinning wheel must be worked for twelve hours per day.

  • I would ask sceptics to go to the many poor homes where the spinning wheel is again supplementing their slender resources and ask the inmates whether the spinning wheel has not brought joy to their homes.

  • Steadfast visited his hoard and took from thence enough to purchase churn, spinning wheel, and the few tools that he most needed; but it was not soon that Patience could sit down to spin.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being watched; beloved children; candied orange; ever saw; franc pieces; good mind; good play; great heart; heavily dependent; higher kind; little spirits; manuscript copy; many generations; mark upon; open circuit; silence fell; similar reason; spinning wheel; stew them; suppress insurrections; syphilitic infection; three children