Maruffi's body was swayed and spun as if by invisible hands; his fingers slipped; he settled downward.
Blake felt a heavy blow which drove the floss-filled pillows against his body with the force of a giant hammer, it tore them from his grip, it crushed the breath from his lungs and spun him half around.
When he had reassured them, they began to come out to the ships in their canoes, with "spun cotton and others of their little things.
They had not only plenty of spun and unspun cotton, but many cotton mantles, "so well woven that they yield in nothing (or owe nothing) to those of our country.
They brought skeins of spun cotton, and parrots, and javelins, and other little things which it would be wearisome to write down, and they gave everything for whatever was given to them.
A vagrant current that spun out from it caught a fragment of paper and whirled it to the floor.
Germyn got up to go to her, his mind returning to the world; and the overhead Eye spun relentlessly, and disappeared.
There was a storeroom under the seats of a football stadium, and Tropile's head spun on his shoulders again as he tried to count the cases of coffee and canned soups and whiskey and beans.
Glenn Tropile's head spundizzily and all the spectacles merged and danced in his mind.
But ere the black had time to poise another spear the overseer's rifle cracked again and the savage spun round and fell, and the other five at once sprang towards the short thick scrub that lined the beach at high-water mark.
For nearly two hours the boat spun southward along the line of thundering breakers on the eastern shore, till Brandon hauled to the wind and ran inside the narrow passage to Utwé Harbour.
He looked at Porter, who at that moment raised the rifle and fired, and a man who was approaching Jinaban, knife in hand, to cut his bonds, spun round and fell upon the sand with a broken back.
His speech was abruptly cut short as the box spun from under his feet.
The third had won; the dealer deftly estimated the weight of his bet, lifting it in the flat of his left hand; then spun several gold pieces toward the winner.
The combing took out the short and broken pieces which was called tow and spun into wrapping twine, small ropes and bagging.
The carded rolls were spun into yarn upon the hand wheel.
They spun garments, which they were taught to embroider with exquisite skill.
These skillful workmen gave him a head of hair which they had spun from the purest gold, and which was so wonderfully wrought that it would attach itself to the head of the wearer, and increase in length like ordinary hair.
Twyning spun around from the bookcase and came forward.
Before a sudden gust they were spun helplessly upward, sported aloft in mazy arabesques, scattered upon the breeze.
Mr. Fortune spun himself with relief to his desk and applied his lips to a flexible speaking tube.
With the same clever motion of his feet he spun his chair and his whale-like front to the table.
Otway spun around in his keen, quick way to face him.
It circled and spun away from him as from the rushing train the fields circled and spun before his vision.
There is no finer lining within, and the edges of the exterior leaves are drawn together round the nest and held there partly by roughly-spun threads of down, and partly by the ends of the stiff fibres being thrust through them.
Then the bridegroom holds the bride in his arms from behind and they stand facing the sun, while some old man ties round their feet a thread speciallyspun by a virgin.
He snatched at his mare and spun her before Jaimihr could recover, then rammed both spurs in and bore down on the Prince with half a sabre.
Alwa and four dashed through and under; the rest recovered, spun on their haunches, and followed.
To reassure himself of his superiority over everybody but his master, he spun his horse presently so that its rump struck against a tented stall, and upset tent and goods.
He said two might go, and when they had spun a coin Stannard and Jimmy took off their packs.
One felt that all went as it ought to go, and Jimmy thought about the big shining flywheel that spun with a steady throb at the Leyland cotton mill.
In 1782 the whole wool crop of the preceding three years lay unused for want of workers, and would have continued so to lie if the newly invented machinery had not come to its assistance and spun it.
The weaving of the silk so twisted andspun is carried on in Paisley and elsewhere in Scotland, and in Spitalfields, London, but also in Manchester and elsewhere.
Hitherto, so far as this had been possible, yarn had been spun and woven under one roof.
Wife and daughter spun the yarn that the father wove or that they sold, if he did not work it up himself.
Besides these, there are numerous mills for working up waste, from which a peculiar article known asspun silk is manufactured, with which the English supply even the Paris and Lyons weavers.
If we are going to meet anything we might as well meet it properly," answered Phil calmly, whereupon he kicked the ratchet loose and spun the brake wheel about.
He turned the buggy with some difficulty, for the track was narrow, and they spun off on the return journey to Cunjee, while Norah, between the two boys, was once more on the way to Billabong.
On the metalled road the rubbered tyres spun silently, and only the flying hoofs clattered and soon they had left the made road and turned on to the hard-beaten track that led to Billabong, where progress was even smoother.
It was too large; itspun round and burned his nose when he tried to drink.
Sometimes Paul came over in the evening with his violin, and even Zilla was silent as the lonely man who had lost his way and forever crept down unfamiliar roads spun out his dark soul in music.
The old man spun him a wonderful tale about fairies and goblins and witches; and I know he hadn't seen a thing except rabbits and red deer all that night.
Two shots rang out in quick succession and Harris stumbled, wheeled and pitched forward on his face as Hopalong's sombrero spun across his body.
It isspun and sold in the skein to the Chinese and other nations, who come to get it.
About their necks they wear gold necklaces, wrought like spun wax, [221] and with links in our fashion, some larger than others.
Lizzie Gordon knew all about him, andspun off information, even to his being little and having to climb a tree.
Meantime the spiteful girl hurried into the house to her parents, and said she had spun all the spools.
Who can doubt that he kept his movements short because he knew that the worst music within a reasonable compass is better than the best which is made tiresome by being spun out unduly?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
