This peasant hand that spins the wool And bakes the bread, why lives it on, Poor and coarse with beauty gone,-- What use survives the beauty?
Round on the labourer spins the wheel of toil, As on its own track rolls the circling year.
Arachne so, In dusty kitchen corner, from her bowels 140 Spins the fine web, butspins with better fate, Than the poor bard: she!
Turn round and round, Without a pause, without a sound: So spins the flying world away!
He not only grows the cotton, but he spins the fiber and weaves the web.
It spinstogether the leaves at the tips of the twigs, and so forms a cocoon-like habitation.
At first it feeds on the buds, but later on the leaves; for protection during the day it spins together two of the leaves, and so forms a suitable resting place.
The caterpillar hatches from the egg in August, but it is not full grown until May or June, when it spins a fairly compact cocoon of greyish silk, which is coated with particles of decayed wood and dried fungus.
It feeds on willow and sallow, and may be found among the foliage from April to June, and especially the topmost leaves of a twig, which it spins together with silk to form a retreat during the day.
When mature it burrows into decayed bark or wood (virgin cork in confinement), and before changing to a reddish-brown chrysalis, it spins a thin covering of silk and woody particles over the mouth of the chamber.
But as the caterpillar spins its cocoon, and the silk is as good as usual, it is a malady of no great importance.
This insect spins a double cocoon, the outer one thin, and the inner one of a close texture.
And for a moment I understood the Catalan's phrase: the family was the chain on which lives were strung, and all of Maragall's lyricizing of wifehood, When the wife sits singing as she spins all the house can sleep in peace.
Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life.
The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
The creature spins this cocoon to protect its chrysalis, of course.
If successful this player then spins the trencher, calling out the name of another article of the toilet.
Peg-top One of the players, chosen by lot, spins his top.
A merry Greek, and cants in Latin comely, Spins like the parish-top.
Then a boy on the opposite side spins his top and tries to hit the button in the opposite direction.
She knows what use survives the beauty in the peasant hand that spins and bakes.
When the current acts on one pole of the magnet only, the magnet spins round the wire (Fig.
It spins with a steady motion, and because of its larger size it is very much harder to overturn than a toy top.
By means of them it spins a tough fibre by which it joins itself to any object to which it wishes to cling.
The female silkworm spins a house which, like an egg, is a little sharper at one end than at the other.
When you consider that each one of them spins between three and four hundred yards of thread you can't blame it for wanting to sleep when its work is done.
First he spins this way, then he spins that, and always he is in the extremity of heat whichever way he spins.
Will they support the revolution with advantage, if it spins out to a war?
As soon as these changes have been made, away spins the little fairy bark on her new course, but always keeping the same side, or that on which the out-rigger is placed to windward.
The long ovoids within each bar revolve round the central axis of the bar, remaining parallel with it, while each spins on its own axis; the iron cone spins round as though impaled on the axis.
The whole atom spins and quivers, and has to be steadied before exact observation is possible.
Return remaining syrup to range, continue cooking until syrup spins a thread at least five inches in length.
Two weeks after that Hal Dane was doing his own slow rolls, doing his spins and his Immelmanns.
Aviation school has caught the idea now that it's a pretty good thing to send a pupil up with an old-timer who can put a bus into spins and take it out of spins.
Deliberately Hal Dane had forced his ship into spins and stalls that many a pilot would have come out of--in a casket and with a lily in his hand.
There were planes all over the sky, outdoing themselves in loops and spins and whirls.
A Spanish proverb says that "She that gazes much spins little"--the distraction caused by externals being fatal to concentration of thought on the work.
When the bullet leaves the rifle it spins out this wire as a shot from a life-saver's mortar spins out and carries the life-line to a wrecked ship.
Although spins are made with the motor on, you are dropping like a ball being dropped out of the sky and the velocity increases with the power of the motor.
Perhaps they are fifteen or eighteen thousand feet in the air, and the hostile machine spins down for thousands of feet.
Following preliminaries of the day before, attendant spins that little roulette wheel sort of an affair.
Spins along a bit again, and pulls up at North Philadelphia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
