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Sentences ending with spun

We gave the rigid woman good-morning, but she did not heed or reply; we made some inquiries as to paths, but she ignored us; we bade her good-day, and she scowled at us: she only spun. [4]
So he went on, endless years, driving through space, some terrible intangible weight dragging at his heart, and all his body panting as it spun. [11]
Only one was in a simple garb, unlike the others, and she, notwithstanding her weed was clean and fitting, was arrayed in poor, grey home spun. [10]

Sentences containing spun two or more times

When all had spun themselves to their places, they were about five or six feet apart--and so situated, the entire circle of spinning pagans spun itself three separate times around the room. [5]

More example sentences with the word spun in them

Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
And soon we were in the heat of it,--sober minuet no longer, but romp and riot, the screams of the lasses a-mingle with our own laughter, as we spun them until they were dizzy. [9]
Amasis spun a web of lies, in which he managed to entrap, not only the whole world, but you too, my Sovereign. [10]
Not a whisper was uttered, now, but the three men stared ahead into the shadows and two of them spun the wheel back and forth with anxious watchfulness while the steamer tore along. [5]
She was deft, too, was Polly Ann, and spun from nettle bark many a cut of linen that could scarce be told from flax. [9]
They spun yarns to this unworthy devil, too. [5]
Then he took to humming a ditty the Jersey housewife used to sing as she spun, while Guida disposed of the sweet-smelling fruit. [11]
And this opinion, this hint, was to Katharina like a distaff from which she spun a lengthening thread to warp to the loom and weave from it a tangible tissue. [10]
They spun on the left foot, and kept themselves going by passing the right rapidly before it and digging it against the waxed floor. [5]
If we could suppose there was a web covering this region, spun by the most alert and busy of men to catch those less alert and more productive, here in this Chamber would sit the ingenious spiders. [4]
Gaston saw something strange in the little incident; but he presently forgot it for many a day, and then remembered it for many a day, when the wheel had spun through a wild arc. [11]
But as she spun, her wheel made the only music--for Polly Ann sang no more. [9]
The smoking shell spun like a top between him and the prostrate adjutant, near a wormwood plant between the field and the meadow. [2]
Once, when we spun around, we only missed a house about twenty feet, that had a light burning in the window; and in the same instant that house went overboard. [5]
The finest linen spun and woven in Villagarcia was used for the purpose, and the sewing was done by her own skilful hands. [10]
The room spun round me in a circle. [10]
His head spun round like a water-fly, and out of the range of Dicky's pistol he shrieked to the crowd on the shore. [11]
She did not regard me, but stood facing the wheel, with the left hand near the spindle, holding lightly between the thumb and forefinger the white roll of wool which was being spun and twisted on it. [4]
His face turned red with passion; he made one bound, hurled me across the house with a sweep of his arm, spun the wheel down, and began to pour out a stream of vituperation upon me which lasted till he was out of breath. [5]
The maids of Nazareth, as they trooped to fill Their balanced urns beside the mountain-rill, The gathered matrons, as they sat and spun, Spoke in soft words of Joseph's quiet son. [6]
Everything has spun my way at last. [11]
The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. [5]
Think what folly it is to cast them aside in favor of palpable impositions stolen from the records of forgotten charlatanism, or of fantastic speculations spun from the squinting brains of theorists as wild as the Egyptian astronomer. [6]
He had felt it for the first time when the shell spun like a top before him, and he looked at the fallow field, the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death. [2]
He was rather, in despair, beginning to wind in again the coil of disaster which had spun out through the helpless fingers of Neckar, Calonne, Brienne and the rest, and was in the end to bind his own hands for the guillotine. [11]
It was as if the flax on a distaff had been set on fire, and the flames spun out into thin threads, and the meshes knotted of the fiery yarn. [10]
Horry was describing how Richard lifted little Goble by one hand and spun all the dignity out of him, when Miss Manners broke in, being able to contain herself no longer. [9]
I steered for him a good many months--as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice: stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master. [5]
Hugo must have heard just such yarns, and spun them on the pattern. [11]
And when we got into the river and were caught and spun by the hurrying stream, I hearkened for a shot from the farther bank. [9]
Tom pulled it from the bosom of his hunting shirt to show me, and in it was a little ring of hair like unto the finest spun red-gold. [9]
The instant the current hit us it spun us around like a top, the water deluged the forecastle, and the boat careened so far over that one could hardly keep his feet. [5]
She was pale, but her lips shone moist and red like the pulp of strawberries, her eyes were as clear and blue as the sky over the Holy Land, and her hair glistened as if it had been spun of the sunbeams. [10]
Very likely her ancestors so spun and tended cattle on the plains of Thessaly. [4]
As he spun along behind Pepper on the Leith road that climbed Willow Brook on the afternoon he had made the appointment, Austen smiled to himself over his anticipations, and yet---being human-let his fancy play. [9]
My head swam; all things whirled and spun about me. [5]
You can tell a portrait from an ideal head, I suppose, and a true story from one spun out of the writer's invention. [6]

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