...We met in the road natives passing with bundles of cops, or spindles full of cotton thread, and these they were carrying to other parts to be woven into cloth...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... 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」
... The eggs are little spindles, white and gleaming like ivory, about two-thirds of a millimeter in length...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... The best corners were kept for hemp, which furnished the distaffs and spindles of the house with the material for linen and was looked upon as grandmother's private crop...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Some are fashioned like bells, like extinguishers, like cups; some are drawn out into spindles, hollowed into funnels, rounded into hemispheres...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...They carried to the top ofCarnmoor a wheel and nine spindles of oakwood...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...These spindles, said the damosel, were when sinful Evecame to gather fruit, for which Adam and she were put out of paradise, she tookwith her the bough on which the apple hung on...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...And when these three spindles were shapen she madethem to be fastened upon the selar of the bed...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...Now saith the history that a great while the three fellows beheld the bed andthe three spindles...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...And Percivale took it, and found therein awrit and so he read it, and devised the manner of the spindles and of the ship,whence it came, and by whom it was made...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...These spindles, said the damosel, were when sinful Eve came to gather fruit, for which Adam and she were put out of paradise, she took with her the bough on which the apple hung on...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...And when these three spindles were shapen she made them to be fastened upon the selar of the bed...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...Now saith the history that a great while the three fellows beheld the bed and the three spindles...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...And Percivale took it, and found therein a writ and so he read it, and devised the manner of the spindles and of the ship, whence it came, and by whom it was made...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...With them were three strange spindles, one ofwhich was white as snow, one red as blood, and oneas green as emerald...
Charles Morris 「Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15)」
...This was the story that the fair damsel, Percivale'ssister, told to the knights, as they stoodcuriously surveying the bed and the spindles...
Charles Morris 「Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15)」
...This instance alone is sufficient to recommend theseChains to all Ships whatever, and that of the Dutchman ought to Cautionpeople from having Iron Spindles at their Mast heads...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...He has erected a gigantic cotton-mill at Wuchang withthirty-five thousand spindles, covering six acres and lit with theelectric light, and with a reservoir of three acres and a half...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
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