1 But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
2 For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
3 The brandy was spinning in her head now and she felt giddy and a little reckless.
4 But even as she spoke it, a sudden calm fell on her spirit, her head began to stop spinning and even the giddiness of the brandy was lessened.
5 Ashley was hardly ever in her thoughts during the day but at night when she was tired from dancing or her head was spinning from too much champagne--then she thought of Ashley.
6 Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whale's head while yet under water.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 7 But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first.
8 Tom was over the stile and starting for the house; the wagon was spinning up the road for the village, and we was all bunched in the front door.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXXIII. 9 In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
10 A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.
11 The water at the back of the house could be heard, idly spinning whirpools in its creep between the rows of dry feather-headed reeds which formed a stockade along each bank.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 12 Whilst she abstractedly watched them spinning and fluctuating in the increasing moonlight she suddenly heard her name whispered by a voice over her shoulder.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 13 We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.
14 Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
15 Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went.