1 She went and got the lump of lead and fetched it back, and brought along a hank of yarn which she wanted me to help her with.
2 So I slips to the sick-room, and if I found him awake I reckoned we could put up a yarn for the family that would wash.
3 For an hour she had watched Rhett hold the yarn Melanie was winding for knitting, had noted the blank inscrutable expression when Melanie talked at length and with pride of Ashley and his promotion.
4 And then, while some of the other prisoners gathered round he told his wild story; most of them were incredulous, but Duane knew that Jurgis could never have made up such a yarn as that.
5 Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it.
6 On the voyage, I shall endeavour,' said Mr. Micawber, 'occasionally to spin them a yarn; and the melody of my son Wilkins will, I trust, be acceptable at the galley-fire.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS 7 Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
8 By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
9 And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.
10 "Fellows used to try to frighten me with their yarns at sea," said Legree.
11 There are more yarns to be told, and other wounds to be healed, and another health to be drunk.
12 The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
13 We sat down and we drank and we yarned about old times, but the more he drank the less I liked the look on his face.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER