Yankee Jim was a picturesque old man with a talent foryarns that Ananias might have envied.
He used to spin a lot o' yarns about the Siberian wolves runnin' in packs an' breakfastin' freely off travelers.
Ringing the Towncrier's bell and fishing and blueberrying and telling yarns and helping everybody bear their trouble was the least part of his doings.
The Judge always said that it was the old sailor's yarns of sea life which sent Justin into the navy "instead of the law office where he belonged.
As we towed the cutter back to the ship I could see that Dumpling was wildly excited, and wondered what yarns he would spin in the gun-room that night about his experiences under fire.
Here end the yarnsabout the beginnings and first year of the War Flight.
I only hope no one has been chattering over all the old silly yarnsabout it to her, eh?
Of course, that poor chap coming to grief here so mysteriously, might give rise to all sorts of yarns among the yokels.
So they would," said Nashby, "and for the reason that they hold it to be dead unlucky even to talk about the yarns that hang around the place.
Full ofyarns of his cruise with Captain Waldegrave of H.
Not being a proud man, he permitted me to stand drinks for him in a well-known liquor saloon in Third Street, where we had long yarns over his trading adventures in the Pacific.
I have read a good many tall yarns about sharks, but never till now could I believe in their being as numerous as a shoal of minnows.
But I may tell you we expect some tough yarns of you; our taste has been tickled by Miles, who has some miraculous--why, where is Miles?
The Bristos didn't want to hear Australian experiences, because they had already heard such as could never be surpassed, from the lips of Miles; their palate for bush yarns was destroyed.
Linen yarns are made into products of the better grade, including fine linens, cambrics, laces, etc.
Tow is a by-product in making linen and flaxyarns and fabrics.
Flax yarns are used in making rope, twine, bagging and coarse, unbleached fabrics.
Marvellous yarns were spun at all mess tables of the severity of the initiation, all of which got on the nerves of the youngsters, and the crew was in a state of semi-trepidation as the day of the crossing approached.
All through this period of rumors and yarns all Connolly could do was to nod and make a show of great nerve in not noticing the terrible pain under which he was suffering.
Originally all jute yarns for warp were wound on to flanged bobbins very similar to, but larger than, those which are at present used for the linen trade.
The usual way in machines for dressing jute yarns is to drive the beam support and the beam by means of friction plates.
Reeling is a comparatively simple operation, consisting solely of winding the yarns from the spinning or twisting bobbins on to a wide swift or reel of a suitable width and of a fixed diameter, or rather circumference.
The warp yarns are wound or beamed direct from the large cylindrical "rolls" or "spools" on to a weaver's beam.
The yarns which were made from the fibre were heavier or thicker than those in demand for the usual types of cloth, and it was desirable that other types of cloth should be introduced so that theseyarns could be utilized.
Large quantities of jute yarnsintended for export are reeled, partly because bundles form suitable bales for transport, and partly because of the varied operations and sizes of apparatus which obtain in foreign countries.
The figuring warp is composed of dyed and printed yarns mixed to form an indefinite pattern, and works in conjunction with a ground warp and weft.
More or less elaborate methods of combining yarns are occasionally adopted, but the reader is advised to consult the above-mentioned work on Cordage and similar literature for detailed information.
The warp yarns are starched, dried and beamed simultaneously on to a weaver's beam.
He laughed and talked and spun long yarns which amused his companions, although they had heard most of them twenty times before.
The two old shipmates soon recognised each other, and were well pleased with the anticipation of having long yarns together about former days.
In physical structure alpaca is somewhat akin to hair, being very glossy, but its softness and fineness enable the spinner to produce satisfactory yarns with comparative ease.
One may feel a little incredulous at some of the extraordinaryyarns which one hears occasionally from living people concerning the doings of smugglers.
And that was all that could be got out of a man who probably could have told some of the best smuggling yarns in Cornwall.
It seems doubtful, however, if Captain Buckingham would have had such a fund of rich material to draw upon for his yarns if it had not been for Sadler's genius for creating original situations.
Then he spun yarns about what him and Brown did when they was out West together.
Split a number of the outside yarns and make a nettle out of each yarn.
A nettle is made by laying up the yarns with the finger and thumb left-handed.
To finish off, tuck the ends as in a short splice, but with the lay of the rope, that is, so that the tuck will continually take place around the same strand, and taper off gradually by reducing the yarns in the strand.
The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country.
Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension.
An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted.
As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yarns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
