...They did thiswhile every second the boat under them was spinning in the air ordiving ten feet into the hollow of the waves, and trying to smashitself and every other boat into driftwood...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
... Accordingly, she was withdrawn from the field, and was set to spinning and weaving...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... "to be influenced by that absurdly impossible yarn whichJulius was spinning to-day?"...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
... The reel was a contrivance consisting of a sort of wheel, turned on an axis, used to transfer the yarn from the spools or spindles of the spinning wheels into cuts or hunks...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...She set down the light,mended the fire with another log, peepedinto the pan of broth simmering on thehob, and then sat to her spinning wheelonce more...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...“So you were spinning,” he said...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...The stories are deliberately told, alittle too much so, perhaps, for sustainedinterest, though it is to be rememberedthat an old sailor cannot behurried while he is spinning a yarn...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...The Microgaster larvae on coming forth from the caterpillarhave the habit of spinning tiny cocoons withinwhich they change to pupae...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Day after day by the hearth among the spinning maids, night after night alone on her bed, she wondered and trembled...
Edith Wharton 「Kerfol」
...Filator: the silk spinning structure ofcaterpillars...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
...The Spider turns round, clutches the line which she hasjust obtained and climbs up by this road, still spinning...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...They sometimes move in to ride the bow wave of a vessel,turning on their sides, sometimes spinning completelyaround on their longitudinal axis when doing so...
Stephen Leatherwood 「Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic」
...When first placed in its new home the Tegenariabegan spinning tunnels of white silky webin various directions across the box...
Elizabeth Brightwen 「Wild Nature Won By Kindness」
便利!手書き漢字入力検索