Skein
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Now that my memory goes back to the old place it would gladly linger, for every thread which I draw from the
skein
of the past brings out half a dozen others that were entangled with it.
More example sentences with word skein
September 11 th - by which I mean not just the World Trade Center massacre, but the
skein
of hateful, reactionary worldviews and organizations it revealed with unmistakable force - is a clarion call.
They lost their heads; even the old men could no longer recognize the passages, which lay like a tangled
skein
before them.
His arms were out, and he held a
skein
of worsted from hand to hand which my mother was busily rolling into a ball.
Of her lips I say nothing, for they are so fine and thin that, if lips might be reeled, one might make a
skein
of them; but being of a different colour from ordinary lips they are wonderful, for they are mottled, blue, green, and purple—let my lord the governor pardon me for painting so minutely the charms of her who some time or other will be my daughter; for I love her, and I don't find her amiss."
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