| 单词 | skein |
| 例句 | Luzan always preferred that I speak to him in skeins such as this; he urged me to take up story-forms, even prepare something for our sessions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair looked the way I had always imagined a skein of flax spun into gold by the miller’s daughter would. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if all of a sudden Naheed was a giant in the room with an endless skein of cotton on her head and everyone was staring at her, and it. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z At once each face in the circle turned to him as if he had gathered up their gazes into a sheaf, a skein. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes. You are mistaken. I put a new skein beside you only an hour ago. You have mislaid the thread,” he insisted. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The approach of the elections was the thread that led him once more to the skein of subversion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mother seemed pleased by the skeins of new wool that she pulled from her own bag, which bristled with needles of every size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Switching locomotives nudged individual boxcars over the skein of temporary tracks to their destinations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By noon they’d be lined up in skeins outside the building, all kinds of people, people holding bags and children, people in suits, in smocks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat with her hands out like paddles while I unwound the skeins and rewound them into a ball. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Once fat Madge made him sit before her, holding a skein of yarn from which she wound a ball. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus he holds to his chest a skein of words, as though it were the source of his family ties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The wreckage of buildings strewn over the landscape and skeins of wire from the roadside poles garbled like knitting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were gray slagpools of melted glass in the ditches and the raw lightwires lay in rusting skeins for miles along the edge of the roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Heaps of skeins of beautiful threads colored like the rainbow lay beside each, and threads of gold and silver too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The vinyl seats smelled stale and moldering and were littered with bits of caramel popcorn and skeins of hair and dried-up splatters of soda. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A broken razor flinging them backward over his shoulder the same motion complete the jerked skein of blood backward not looping. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z To see the two of them together was a regular jolt: the young man’s head of yellow hair long as a dog’s tail next to her skein of black wool. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As she grabbed the purse, the skein of gold thread fell out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They crossed a river by a concrete bridge where skeins of ash and slurry moved slowly in the current. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z While they wait for the train Elizabeth takes out her knitting needles and a skein of deep red wool. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He picked up a little skein of the deep crimson. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a skein of fog, the sun gleamed as hard and silver as a freshly minted leu. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She fits the skein of wool over my two outstretched hands, starts winding. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Slughorn, however, did not seem to be listening; he was looking up at the ceiling, from which a number of brass pots hung, and also a long, silky skein of bright white hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Around them were skeins of thread, scissors, and little fabric squares poked full of needles. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread—90 cents for one measly skein—the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Her beautiful hair had dried into a skein of cobwebs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The waves brought seaweed in and draped it across the downed trees in thick oozing skeins. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After the candles were lit, Rachel and the two girls picked up skeins of yarn and began to knit as Matthew drew the great Bible toward him across the table. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In the morning your stomach feels like a skein of wet wool. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z A section where skeins of paint splash all over the surface recalls Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, or graffiti on a street wall. | Doting on Dots: Jennifer Bartlett's 'Recitative' 2011-01-13T22:24:52Z But in the second act, as the skeins of the story are gathered into patterns, it becomes clear that Mr. Beresford is better at individual scenes than at shaping them into a whole. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z Faces are criss-crossed with coloured skeins, or patterned in curves and circles until they are barely visible. Maurizio Anzeri's embroidered photographs make patterns of the past 2013-05-09T13:30:01Z The ballet slowly emerges from thin air, like strands of yarn winding into a skein. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Her hair hung like a skein of silk, immune to humidity. Actress Morena Baccarin Cooks a Brazilian Stew 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The dozen skein paintings present disheveled amalgams of hues and weaves. In Channing Hansen's knitted artworks, some of the credit goes to the sheep 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z And four hours still doesn’t cover the whole tale, which spans 25 years and was really a skein of short stories raveled around the title character, Olive. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The clatter and commotion of the birds as they begin their flight, followed by the sight of their flypast in v-shaped skeins is one of nature’s marvels, and well worth getting up for. 10 hidden beaches, bays and walks on the UK coastline 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Between enigmatic spells of gazing into the distance, they entangled themselves in restless, breathless, prodding skeins of movement, as if intent on awakening the air around them, the ground beneath them. Review: ‘Shore,’ a Dance and More Over Space and Time 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z To meet her deadline, Ms. Durant recruited a skein full of knitters to assist. A Good Yarn About Those ‘Carousel’ Costumes 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Alderman describes “a strip of striated muscle across the girls’ collarbones which they name the organ of electricity, or the skein for its twisted strands.” ‘The Power’ is our era’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Shade trees spindled past skeins of electrical wire, while the low plastic chairs of an open-air cafe sat neatly in the shade of a long, blank wall. Family, Meet My Old Love: Saigon 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The other day, a rainbow of thread skeins glowed in the sunshine pouring in through the windows. Debriefing: Because the Doorman Doesn’t Iron 2013-07-11T22:22:35Z Prince Loewenstein did business with a skein of companies in the Netherlands to reduce taxes. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, Rolling Stones Money Manager, Dies at 80 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In the long skeins of notes in a Bach partita or fugue, Mr. Teshigawara’s choreography finds an aural counterpart, nearly becoming a kind of freehand music visualization. Review: Dancing in the Liquid Realm of Dreams 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z He stretches Chandler’s limber language like a skein across the skeleton of his life, knitting in the spaces in between with his own editorial commentary. ‘The World of Raymond Chandler,’ Edited by Barry Day 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The plane cut through a skein of dark-gray cloud, through a layer of liquid light, into another cloud that started as dark as steel wool, then thickened to gray and turned slowly white. The Weight 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The dense workmanship mixed skeins of thick wool with pepper-and-salt tweed — and set that off against sheer chiffon. Special Report: Fashion: Catherine Versus Kate 2011-02-20T18:15:49Z Pull the thread too hard and both skeins unravel simultaneously.” Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world. Cranky Guy: Why I Skipped the Toronto Film Festival This Year 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z He scales a tree in England with “two skeins of ancient hawser climbing rope, two ragged harnesses, and a motley bundle of jangling carabiners — some of them clearly homemade,” he writes. Review | He has the job every kid wants: He climbs trees for a living. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Condon, in short, has impressively sorted out the skein of relationships in a production that never lacks for velocity or verve. Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z I rolled into the studio like a skein of frayed nerves and found Laurie seated serenely at the pottery wheel, cradling a mug-in-process between her hands. dIn North Carolina, the Art of Living Retreat is a balancing act of rest and activities 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z With sinewy skeins of ink, and pools and streaks of wash, Rembrandt gives a bourgeois bedroom the shadowed silence of an aisle chapel in a church. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z Along with the ethnic stereotypes that fill the movie is a skein of gender stereotypes to match. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Guitars intertwine and gather around them, in ever-thickening skeins of picking and strumming, pulling a listener into all the mesmerizing turbulence of those troubled romances. New Music: Dum Dum Girls, Peggy Sue and Helen Sung Release Albums 2014-01-27T22:37:10Z Now she sees that skein of civilisation as thin, one torn apart by the inexplicable disappearance of her son and her fellow humans' toxic reaction to it. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z And rural migrants took up bamboo poles and skeins of rope to join the so-called “stick-stick army” of porters, looking to haul bags of groceries or sacks of concrete mix along unnavigable inclines. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z Even more remarkable, and less familiar, are large drawings from 1966 notable especially for their skeins of automatist drawing in pencil, crayon and ballpoint. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z They don’t, of course, Moreover, her mistakes — her parents’ mistakes, her parents’ parents’ mistakes — are not momentary and finite, but a lineage, skeins of dysfunction running down through generations. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The skeins of white paint were read as a kind of expressive calligraphy. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z Two of the Martian Chronicles stories twist these skeins together admirably. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z This skein of dry facts and fellowship might have sustained me, at least until the electricity and phone lines went out. Why TV news is addicted to weather porn 2011-08-29T12:30:00Z “Today, as the separate skeins of my life weave themselves into its final fabric,” she writes, it is aging that she wants to address. Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around. A Novel Charts Earth’s Path From Lush Eden to Barren Hellscape 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Anderson sent models out from a forest of colored ribbons clad in sparkly bodysuits and sweaters illuminated from beneath with skeins of LED lights. Fashion Dispenses a Happy Little Pill 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Albert’s skein of ruses, as unravelled in the film, yields wildly ironic literary delights—which is why the film ought to have been, and could have been, much better than it is. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The ensemble serves as a kind of velvety pillow, atop which Mr. Shankar weaves coppery skeins for himself, as soloist. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z As we rode Granite’s lower Silverlode chair, the mountain that unscrolled beneath our skis didn’t seem like much, a skein of lazy beginner and intermediate runs. Next Stop: In British Columbia, Little Big Resort 2013-12-19T19:58:31Z But something unexpected happens: Mendel falls madly in love with Trina, further entangling this skein of classic New York neurotics. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Standing near, the washes and skeins of intense color verge on immersive. Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Chapman has unravelled the skeins of rumour, exaggeration and anecdote that have been wound so tightly around Barrett. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z Untangling the skein of regulations put in place by the Egyptian government to ensure that tomb looting never happens again. An 'Unconventional Archaeologist' in our midst 2010-07-09T22:46:00Z You do not know what exactly you are looking at, or where you are, but these whorls and skeins and ripples conjure an atmosphere, or perhaps a memory, of summer gardens, undergrowth, warm riverbanks. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Every piece of developable land is spoken for, often by high-rise apartment buildings, while unsightly high-tension wires crisscross the hilltops like skeins of yarn. Seeing Korea through his parents’ eyes Lepore has photographed skeins of spandex, cut, gathered or punctured by straps or hands. Anthony Lepore's show at Francois Ghebaly explores the workplace and spandex 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “Seventh Heaven” juxtaposes thoughts of euphoric love and disillusionment — “We shoot for the empire/Land in the dust pile” — amid shimmering keyboards, skeins of intertwined guitars and ever more buoyant choruses. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Some movie skeins, like Fast & Furious, find ways to enlarge and improve; others, like The Hangover, devolve into sour chaos. Fastest-Ever Start for Furious 6; A Sorry Morning-After for Hangover III 2013-05-27T13:34:01Z Casting Amanda Seyfried, a spectacular beauty with a wide-open, alarmed face, brilliant skin and endless skeins of blond hair, in the central role is one gamble that pays off. "Red Riding Hood": The "Showgirls" of fairy-tale movies 2011-03-10T23:01:00Z Lee’s film traces a grim continuum between stereotypes old and new, connected by knotty skeins of institutional racism. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Unravelling a rich skein of themes – justice, monarchy, prison, policing, public fears and private lunacy among them – Murphy shows how the survival of Victoria was also the survival of the British monarchy. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-19T19:00:02Z A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague. ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z You have to keep an uninterrupted skein of engagements. Farewell to Peter Lennon, whose only film was worth a dozen by a lesser man 2011-03-21T14:17:57Z The description is a skein of competing instincts. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z On the counter, the employees had laid out totes containing a skein, a gift for the sailors. On a Windjammer cruise in Maine, passengers knit a seaworthy yarn 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The movie cannibalizes the effluvia of pop culture with a gleeful skein of movie references recent and classic, including “The Shining,” “Big,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “Die Hard.” “The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z She offers skeins in a mix of oranges, purples and grays called “Bad Moon Rising,” and a mix of pinks, oranges and golds called “Walkin’ on the Sun.” Inside the workshop with yarn dyer Kate Chiocchio 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The work is shot through with beautiful skeins of motion, with group, duo and solo sections of exciting virtuosity that earn whoops of appreciation. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Long skeins of glorious dancing — of quick-stepping, rhythmically complex Philadelphia footwork delivered in a cool, quiet manner — speak of inheritance, resilience, even confidence. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet the ghosts of the past, of lost connections and missed opportunities, haunt both sections, binding the characters with a single, sorrowful skein. Review: Seeking Connection in a Busy Town in ‘Autumn, Autumn’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z People in that income bracket aren’t leveraging their credit card debt by buying skeins of yarn or sewing machines and fabric. "Making It" and the bittersweet economics of crafting culture 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Dinners included smelly fish and whole grains and Old World specialties like jellied calf’s foot and cured skeins of fish roe. Russian New Year’s Eve: Christmas, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, All Rolled Into One 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The central plot of “Parallel Mothers” is vintage Almodóvar: a skein of reversals, revelations, surprises and coincidences unraveled with style, wit and feeling. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z On the fourth floor, all the sculpture are bronze, including two enormous baskets, one occupied by a giant snake, the other filled with skeins of hair, some of them tinted red, as if bloodied. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The text is profuse, the characters spin out seemingly endless skeins of talk, and it’s slotted into the action to tell stories—stories that, for the most part, throw smoke in the other characters’ eyes. “The Hateful Eight”: Quentin Tarantino’s Playfully Adolescent Filmmaking 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z These knitters confess to squirreling away skeins of yarn as if they were disaster supplies. Knitting for the Apocalypse 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z “If fate was just a tapestry with a shifting design — some fraying skein that the gulls were tearing right this second — then Nal didn’t see why he couldn’t also find a loose thread, and pull.” ‘Vampires in the Lemon Grove’: the real lives of vampires, monsters and bullies 2013-02-28T00:07:34Z Snags appear amid skeins of carefree, virtuosic dancing: hands caught between two thighs, jiggling; exaggerated eye rolls; one dancer rattling another’s body parts like salt shakers. John Jasperse Reaches Into the Audience in ‘Within Between’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z You tug at that part, and an entire skein follows. Learn direct: can theatre directing be taught? 2011-01-11T13:42:23Z Pairs of specimens are arrayed like nearly identical siblings; thicker seaweed results in more indistinct, abstract skeins. She Needed No Camera to Make the First Book of Photographs 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In the mid-1980s Ms. Chase began producing charged, gestural abstract work in which the landscape elements and body parts of earlier paintings became enmeshed in thickets of color and skeins of calligraphic lines. Louisa Chase, Painter of Geometric Shapes and Body Parts, Dies at 65 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Sewell’s descriptions are marvelous — explaining when gaggles of geese become skeins of geese, or why swirling hawks suggest boiling water in a kettle. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In his installations, macho aggression is typically defused by little flights of visual delectation: hanging skeins of orange electrical cord, for instance, or towers of wood scraps. Art Review: ‘Jason Rhoades: Four Roads’ at Penn 2013-12-19T23:02:30Z Helpfully, the American's skeins of stuff, which sit on drifts of blackish gravel, are collectively called This Is Not a Life-Saving Device. Aquatopia: art on the ocean wave 2013-07-22T17:25:00Z Scorsese presents not merely one skein of interlocking scandals but an existential vision of society, the very immoral essence of humankind, looked in the face and wearing suits. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Its songs are taut, quick-changing suites, heading from one skein of intricately tangled guitars to the next as if all that compositional planning were just happy serendipity. Playlist : Ache and Anger, Desire and Tenacity 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z The research process is like “stringing together all these different skeins, all these different threads,” she said. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z At the Parrish, skeins of neon in lavender or sea-foam green weave among the building’s wooden rafters. Stripes and Tangles of Neon, Under the Hamptons Sun 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Next she knots these columns, evoking Pollock’s dripped skeins in three dimensions and then adding Pollock-like drips of paint and glitter, as beautifully exemplified by the 1973 “PSI.” Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z Bright, billowy skeins of yellow and orange fabric swirl around her body leaving only her face exposed. Antonia Wright pulls a disappearing act at Luis De Jesus 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish. This petite sirah packs big, bold flavors and costs just $15 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z When the cleaning was complete and the extra paint removed, the white and black underneath suddenly became visibly sharper, and fine, spiderlike skeins of paint appeared “like strands of silk,” Ms. Hickey said. Jackson Pollock’s ‘One: Number 31, 1950’ Restored by MoMA 2013-05-27T21:37:58Z But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion. Review: The Tony-nominated 'Into the Woods' revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A. 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will. What if women were more powerful than men? Toni Collette finds out. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The legal debate is just one skein in the tangle of moral, political and economic concerns that the potential seizure of Russia’s reserves poses. Support Grows to Have Russia Pay for Ukraine’s Rebuilding 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Thick skeins of wires hooked up to generators form a canopy over the neighborhood. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor. Opinion | A shakeup in Ukraine masks deeper problems 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z A skein of ropes is systematically assembled by the ensemble as scrolls are unrolled to illustrate the science of perspective. Review: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci’ is more impressively acrobatic than it is exciting 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The mass shooting in Half Moon Bay punctuated a 48-hour skein of gun violence that has devastated immigrant communities in Northern and Southern California. Farmworker Describes Coming Face to Face With Half Moon Bay Gunman 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The wood mixes with kelp skeins the size of Shaquille O’Neal’s upper arms, torn from the ocean floor to the delight of the feeding otters. Perspective | On California’s coast, humans ride out nature’s rage 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Weaving all of those artistic skeins into a seamless whole has been “a quite complex balancing act,” but a worthwhile one, Posner says. At Round House Theatre, a literally magical ‘Tempest’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Your home and family are intertwined with other skeins and strands of your lifelong set of experiences and — all of these things help to form your identity. Advice | Ask Amy: Now that I’m married, I miss living with my family 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The skeins of illogic in this matter will only create even greater knots in Goodell’s necktie. Perspective | Let Deshaun Watson’s imperfect justice be a lesson to Roger Goodell’s NFL 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z For Mr. Johnson, the war in Ukraine has utterly eclipsed a skein of political scandals at home. U.K. Takes a Hawkish Lead on Russia, but Will Europe Follow? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In return, the Taínos swam out to the boats with parrots and skeins of cotton thread, and then with food and water. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble. Poem: ‘Elective Affinities: Ghazal of the Muon’ 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z It was the latest in a skein of legal maneuvers by the prince’s lawyers to defuse Ms. Giuffre’s case. Prince Andrew’s Uncertain Legal Fate Casts Shadow on Britain’s Royals 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z In other examples, a plate of spaghetti upended on a canvas could signify the satisfying consumption of tangled linear skeins of color in a Jackson Pollock drip painting. Luciano Perna, an L.A. Conceptual artist known for spectral photos and homey sculptures, dies at 63 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Here and there were the residues of what survived: a mosque, a church, a crumbling wall — fleeting skeins of Palestinian history among the modern Israeli office blocks and parking lots. Whose Promised Land?A Journey Into a Divided Israel 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Such a layout, he knew, was unusual: In other communities where nobles had reigned, their villas were outside of town, distant from one another and from the locals; in Santar, the skeins were tightly knit. In a Fading Portuguese Village, the Gardens Bloom Again 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But their chaotic response, on the eve of the government’s plans to lift almost all virus-related restrictions, was the latest in a skein of U-turns and reversals dating to the beginning of the pandemic. Boris Johnson to Self-Isolate, Reversing Plan to Enter N.H.S. Pilot Program 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z However, selective pruning and sorting through old and new stems is like unpicking a tangled skein of yarn. The ABCs of growing clematis will help tame any complications 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z News that he had deployed Navy warships, bristling with machine guns, pushed aside a skein of reports about his ethical conduct while in office. U.K. and France Call in the Navy, Sort of, in Channel Islands Fishing Dispute 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z She posed for photos in front of skeins of colorful yarn — dark purple, magenta, turquoise, yellow — and emerged with bags in hand. 7 local craft shops that will help unleash your creativity 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z His house was another thread in the skein of complications that consumed his life, all of which were caused or made worse by a lack of money. The ‘Old American Dream,’ a Trap as the Floods Keep Coming 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z A knitter like Hicks who might need 10 to 15 skeins for a sweater is looking at a $300 investment, not including the time it takes to knit the garment. The plus-size knitters who are solving an inclusivity problem 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Numbers and names are his window into this cosmic skein, and he becomes the cartographer of this alternative universe. Review: Yearn to travel? Illusionist Scott Silven transports you on 'The Journey' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The largest city in North America, it is famous for its sprawl, smog and the snarled skeins of slow-moving cars that clog its main arteries during extended rush hours. Hardcore Cyclists Head for the Hills … Mexico City’s 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z A skein of Canada geese, migrating north for the summer, honked in the distance. A Michigan congresswoman, a guy in line in China and a global scramble to find N95 masks 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z That skein of idealism has of course been consumed by the urge to expand and monetise this wildly successful arm of the entertainment industry. Cursed Euro 2020 might just give us what we need next year | Barney Ronay 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The dyeing process is a two-person operation, Busby said, and on dyeing days, the women will typically do three sets, which equates to 70 skeins. Vicksburg women have turned dyeing fabric into works of art 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z She spun her first skein of chiengora with hair harvested from a customer’s deceased black poodle, Rose. How to keep your pet forever: Spin its fur into yarn | Produced by Advertising Publications 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z In years past, Carmody owned sheep and was afforded skeins of yarn made from their shearings to create family items. South Dakota woman knits scarves for vets, blankets for kids 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It did require two skeins of yarn, but the type I used still ended up being a bit less expensive than the cost of the other projects, so overall, this was the winner. Forget wrapped presents, try wrapping wreaths instead 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This separated him from announcers who babbled endless skeins of words, believing that they, not the cars, were the attraction. Calling Danger at the Grandview Speedway 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z We go everywhere that day with our dirty blood and hot bodies and Michelle’s pretty dark hair falling down her back in greasy skeins, and I hate who we are. My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z For example, when a tangled skein of forces — technical, scientific, economic and cultural — transformed Western societies from primarily rural to urban and agrarian to industrial, every walk of life was altered. Opinion | Populists are popular because they give easy answers to problems that don’t have them 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps the Nats’ long winning skein soon will slow to a more normal rate. Perspective | For Nationals, the state of the ace — and the bullpen — make for some frayed nerves 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The world is now a densely interconnected skein of factories and vast container ports in which production, whether of automobiles or washing machines, and especially hi-tech production, is organised across borders. The left is fighting back, even in Republican states, as it attempts to reshape capitalism | Will Hutton 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z In the rear, scores of electrical cords sprawled across the floor keep the heaters and lights humming, a tangle that recalls the jumbled skeins of paint in a Jackson Pollock drip painting. MOCA on the rebound? Three strong shows and free entry are welcome signs of change 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Koepka turned 29 earlier this month—the same age Woods was when he started on his second majors skein. The golf world belongs to Brooks Koepka, you might as well get used to it - Golf Digest 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z That’s a longer skein without a victory, but he’s being compared here to Woods and Nicklaus—an unfair comparison for any golfer 99 percent of the time. Rory McIlroy just turned 30, but let's hold off on getting too nostalgic - Golf Digest 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z It looks, in computer-generated renderings, like a multicoloured skein of yarn. The new techniques revealing the varied shapes of chromatin 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Hagfish slime is made up of microscopic pockets of mucus and tightly wound bundles of stringy fiber dubbed “skeins.” How hagfish launch slime missiles that swell 10,000 times in size 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z At the right was a skein of birds — white wings tipped with black — flying away. Perspective | On a trip to the National Gallery, looking for art that doesn’t imitate life 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the mere fact that the trail was built vindicated the decision she and her husband made 30 years ago to buy a house right next to a skein of high-voltage wires. Perspective | Montgomery County mountain bikers are charged up about a new trail 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Versace, controlled by its namesake family since the 1997 murder of its founder, Gianni Versace, offers Kors an intriguing skein of possibilities. Michael Kors Nears Versace Purchase in Challenge to European Luxury Groups 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Her laptop is next to her, and she has a crochet hook and is turning a skein of chunky gray yarn into a scarf. “A Refugee Crisis” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Researchers took a skein from a hagfish and pulled at one end of the thread, watching it unravel under a microscope. How hagfish launch slime missiles that swell 10,000 times in size 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Dancing across the top three panels is an undulating horizontal red skein. At Blum & Poe, bow down to the ecstatic painting of Mimi Lauter 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z There is a purity even in the prospect of meringue white versus Anfield red, a skein of emotional authenticity in the flags, the songs, that shared folk memory of so many other floodlit triumphs. Liverpool and Real Madrid prepare for battle of attack-minded aristocracy | Barney Ronay 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z And in the middle of it – at the heart of a skein of threads, of people, of companies – is Brexit. Cambridge Analytica has gone. But what has it left in its wake? 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z For all the hopes Trump will carry into his proposed summit with Kim — hopes for peace, denuclearization and even visions of eventual unification — this tangled skein of history and geography presents some formidable knots. Opinion | Korea is built to be unsolvable 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Based on the force needed to pull apart the skein, they calculated how quickly it would unravel under different scenarios. How hagfish launch slime missiles that swell 10,000 times in size 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He's the creator of HBO's "Veep" and its British forbearer, "The Thick of It," and his characters speak in skeins of expletives and scathing syllables that reduce rivals to sputtering, withered messes. Armando Iannucci's biting satire takes on history and black comedy in 'The Death of Stalin' 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z But the appearance of a blatant conflict of interest is just one of many in a country where business and political power form a tangled skein of overlapping, opaque and often lucrative transactions. In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Now, abandoned fishing boats rust and splinter on the burning salt, amid skeins of desiccated fishing nets and grubby flamingo feathers. The ecological catastrophe that turned a vast Bolivian lake into a salt desert 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The abnormal white blood cells—known as B cells—sometimes released skeins of DNA similar to NETs. White blood cells launch DNA ‘webs’ to warn of invaders 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The Power by Naomi Alderman In the near future, teenage girls begin spontaneously developing electrical powers, thanks to a small muscle called the "skein" that's found only in women. The best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels of 2017 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But tugging at that thread unravelled a vast, tangled skein of male angst. Our columnist bids farewell 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In the windswept skein of mountains in India's Western Ghats, geologists are drilling some of Asia's deepest boreholes in an audacious attempt to unlock the mysteries of earthquakes. Why is India drilling deep into an earthquake hotspot? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Soon, every sphere of my life, once neatly rolled skeins arranged in a basket, unravelled into one big tangled mess. ‘I made a statistical game out of dating’: could I crack the formula for love? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The skein of lies told by everyone from Michael Flynn to Jeff Sessions to Trump himself denying, downplaying or deflecting attention from the Russian disinformation attack resembles the behavior of a guilty party. Editorials from around New England 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It languished for years, a small link in a vast skein of asphalt and steel. Robert Moses, Andrew Cuomo and the Saga of a Bronx Expressway 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Farming and ranching groups from across the Great Plains sent skeins of fence wire and new metal posts to drive three feet into the soil. Burying Their Cattle, Ranchers Call Wildfires ‘Our Hurricane Katrina’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z European imperialists in Africa built a skein of lines, most of which fell into disrepair in the decades after their colonies achieved independence. Joyous Africans Take to Rails, With China’s Help 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He will be remembered for his eulogies, the terrible skein of laments over the bodies of American citizens murdered. Amazing Grace 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A few steps later you are out the back door and in a broad outdoor space lighted with skeins of tiny bulbs and lined with picnic tables. Everson Royce Bar is a boozy playground with bar food done right 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Seated behind a traveler, she reached for a skein of washed and disentangled wool, kicked off her sandals and pressed the machine’s pedals to twist the fibers. Indiana center shows off alpaca herd, usefulness of wool 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z His wiry constellation Star Cage of 1950 transforms Pollock’s skeins and arcs of paint into a planetary diagram. Abstract expressionism – not just macho heroes with brushes 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z She moved back and forth, silently and methodically weaving a skein of red yarn. Cultural diplomacy and Cuban art go on exhibit at the OAS 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The line of pink squares looked to me then like the knuckles on an accusatory finger, pointing through the window to the skein of clouds gathering over a dark, unruly ocean. The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The victory ended a skein of close calls for Johnson, 31, who finished T4 and T2 in the last two U.S. Johnson wins U.S. Open, despite ruling controversy - Golf Digest 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Today, the Navy remains in the grip of overlapping civilian and military investigations that are slowly unraveling long skeins of misconduct. The man who seduced the 7th Fleet 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z When released by the hagfish they quickly interact with seawater; the mucin vesicles releasing a saliva-like substance and the skeins unwinding into long threads. Slimy hagfish inspire 'super hydrogels' 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “I made one skein of yarn and it was so full of mistakes I was like, ‘this is trash,’” she said. Central Louisiana makers accept challenge for showcase 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z A skein of silk tangled into a ball has very different properties from that same skein extended; might the coiling or uncoiling of DNA change the activity of genes? The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Then I felt, as the seconds passed, that some tiny skein of aggression in its heart was starting to thrum. A Hint of Danger in the Forest 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z In Ms. Mayer’s telling, the Kochs helped bankroll — through a skein of nonprofit organizations with minimal public disclosure — decades of victories in state capitals and in Washington, often leaving no fingerprints. Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z And for all the thrilling cosmopolitanism of the Premier League it is a skein of native insularity that remains. Bonkers? Mad? Why Van Gaal and Klopp must be taken seriously | Barney Ronay 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z About a dozen hard-core members celebrated by sending each other yarn to untangle, knotting up new skeins themselves if they had to. Knitters With Hopelessly Knotted Yarn Call ‘Detanglers’ for Help 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Carol said prices for a skein of yarn will cost from $6.50 to a little more than $30, depending on thickness, quality and length. New yarn store Spun opens in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Another piece is made of twisted skeins of steel, reinforcing rods that failed to support schools in the 2008 earthquake in China, displayed beside the names of more than 5,000 school children who died. Artist Ai Weiwei vows to accept offers of Lego from around the world 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z They shine torches on skeins instead of helicopters. Fifteen-year-old wins poetry hat-trick - BBC News 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z For most of the past six years, there was no doubt that the Yankees were a better television product than the Mets, who spiraled into a skein of losing seasons. As Mets Rise, a City Starts to Change Its Pinstripes 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “It’s super hard for me to tangle the yarn and send it to somebody,” says Ms. Rothschild, whose techniques including throwing skeins in the air, weaving different yarns together and tossing yarn in the dryer. Knitters With Hopelessly Knotted Yarn Call ‘Detanglers’ for Help 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Her brother, Sammy Mack, the second overdose victim in the Sunday night skein, was found dead in his bedroom, curled in a fetal position. The heroin epidemic’s toll: One county, 70 minutes, eight overdoses 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Nature was the green fire in the eyes of the wolf, the skeins of geese across the sand county lakes, the flowering of the Arizona juniper or the bark of the young white pine. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But although it’s become so common- place, and seems so simple, it’s still an enthralling question, one that involves a whole skein of factors not easy to untangle. A Philosopher's Guide to Happiness 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The Nats’ scoreless innings streak by their starters, now at 41 1/3 innings, is the longest skein in franchise history and the most by any team in baseball since 2008. Finally lined up, this Nats rotation makes a specialty of setting ’em down 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It pained her to see the owner tossing tangled skeins in the garbage. Knitters With Hopelessly Knotted Yarn Call ‘Detanglers’ for Help 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The reform sweeps away a skein of temporary contracts, replacing them with one that affords new employees progressively greater safeguards until, after three years, they become entitled to a permanent job. Marching to a different tune 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Imagine submerged skeins of steel tubes crisscrossing the ocean or up and down the coasts hurtling shipping containers at near supersonic speeds. Hyperloop Is Real: Meet The Startups Selling Supersonic Travel 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The same applies to a skein of domestic tumults — over the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the now bolstered HealthCare.gov website. In a Partisan Atmosphere, It Can Even Be Hard to Find Numbers That Agree 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z After processing at Northern Woolen Mills, it returned about 45 pounds or 110 skeins of yarn. Little Falls couple turns farm vision into reality 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Tiger Woods was in Oakland on Sunday to watch them extend their losing streak to 11 games and 11 months, or only two months fewer than his own winless skein. Raiders lose, Cowboys win and, oh, the PGA Tour opened its season in wine country: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z "My mind is a stiff skein of voices. I will yank out the threads and find the edges ..." But the book also skilfully bucks various trends of English-language fiction. The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer – review 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Whether prepping warps, tying knots, dyeing yarn, winding skeins, drawing and painting, researching or drafting weave structures, she pays meticulous attention to detail. Weaver Christy Matson prefers when art can be made out of whole cloth 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The joint entrances of the three Braves are a validation at the Hall of the team’s skein of 14 consecutive division championships, five pennants and the 1995 World Series victory under Cox. Glavine and Maddux Lead Hall of Fame Day Dominated by Braves 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z “It is imperative to pierce the skein of impunity that surrounds Sri Lanka — an island where the war is clearly not yet over.” Sri Lanka Seeks to Fight Off War Crimes Inquiry 2014-03-26T18:29:51Z The penchant among people who work in advertising and marketing to recognize their own achievements is evidenced by a seemingly endless skein of awards they bestow at dozens of ceremonies each year. Advertising: One Singular Sensation for Award Winners 2014-03-11T23:20:30Z The Leveson Inquiry also sought to illuminate the sometimes Byzantine workings of the media and the skein of potentially corrupting relationships between its practitioners and its subjects. Rupert Murdoch's Divorce: Tabloid Boss Becomes Tabloid Prey 2013-06-14T17:35:24Z There's a skein of New Testament self-sacrifice running through many Superman stories, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if we saw an element of that here. From Batman to Iron Man: the super-rich superheroes 2013-04-19T08:00:27Z Instead, a true lawyer’s most important work was to understand the governing principles so as to “be able to apply them with consistent facility and certainty to the ever-tangled skein of human affairs.” Law school is a sham 2013-04-06T16:00:00Z What troubles us about these stories is the way that the tangled skein of human lives are reduced down to symptoms, while cause and context are forgotten or outright ignored. Psychiatry by Numbers 2013-02-08T16:45:06.270Z Thus the Armey story pulled together the skeins of the right-wing backlash narrative and tied them in a bow, a gift that even Democrats can’t miss, I hope. Conservatives’ full-on meltdown 2012-12-26T19:27:00Z Ashlyn was curled on the living-room carpet crocheting a purse from one of the skeins of yarn she keeps piled in her room. Ashlyn Blocker, the Girl Who Feels No Pain 2012-11-15T17:52:47Z Very bold, flag-like arcs of colour were used on ultra-delicate skeins of silk rib; a fitted bustier top was worn over slouchy cropped trousers. Stella McCartney operates in the loose fit at Paris fashion week 2012-10-01T15:23:24Z All of this while playing a distinctive brand of soccer known as “tiki-taka”—a mesmerizing skein of quick passes that break down opponents’ defenses with a lock picker’s patience and guile. Spain's Soccer Team, a Champion for the Facebook Age 2012-07-03T20:07:06Z Earnhardt's route to breaking the winless streak was fraught with a number of bumps and obstacles in the road, including finishing runner-up in seven different races over the four-year winless skein. Earnhardt Jr. ends his 143-race winless streak 2012-06-17T22:30:00Z Sexual Vice.—As to sexual vice, the skein is indeed a tangled one. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The collapse of unions was no doubt important from any viewpoint, but here one has a skein of contending causal forces. What?s driving inequality? 2012-04-23T09:58:00Z Into the second of these the girl gently bends her head to look, eagerly watched by her lover, as she twists a long skein of wavy golden hair. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Conor with unalter'd mien, In a clear sweet voice serene, Took in hand the tangled skein, And began to make it plain. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Some had spun six, and many not less than five skeins apiece. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z "Soft thy skin as silken skein, Soft as woman's hair thy mane, Tender are thine eyes and true; All thy hoofs like ivory shine, Polished bright; O, life of mine, Leap, and rescue Kurroglou!" In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z What that lie was is immaterial to the skein and texture of this story. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The tangled skein is at last to be unravelled, the mysterious problem of mortal life will have its solution at the judgement-seat of Jesus Christ. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z In Beijing, the municipal government is seeking to place cameras in all entertainment venues, adding to the skein of 300,000 cameras that were installed here for the 2008 Olympics. Bain Capital Tied to Surveillance Push in China 2012-03-16T02:23:08Z All the tangled skeins of life are the work of your dainty fingers. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z It was composed of two bands, or skeins of silk twisted together and tinctured of the principal metal and colour of the arms. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Mrs. Walton entered into their plans for the fair enthusiastically, as she helped wind a skein of Iceland wool for Katie's crocheting. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Attached to the arrow was a skein of silk; and on the arrow itself were words written. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The situation is dark," she said; "the skein is tangled. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z I wonder now at my struggles in former years; am happier since the tangled skein is partially straightened. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z The leaves are composed of strong fibres, which are capable of being manufactured into a ship’s cable or a skein of lace thread, a sail for a man-of-war or the finest cambric handkerchiefs. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Through all our troubles, the tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z And I, just back from abroad with all the skeins of old friendship at a loose end, walk into your circle and quietly appropriate you for a fortnight—while your other friends go a-begging.” The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z Verily the future was growing strangely dark, the skein of the race more tangled hourly. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z I walked straight out of that library, feeling quite certain that I held the right end of the skein. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z Kant unwinds the silkworm's web, but Fichte tangles the skein of silk,—at least so it seems to me. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z THE SCOTSMAN.—"The unravelling of the many tangled skeins is a process that firmly holds the attention of the reader." Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z Hank, hangk, n. two or more skeins of thread tied together: a string, clasp, or other means of fastening. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z It will be delivered with a tall skein of cotton candy. | South Norwalk: Red Lulu Cocina in South Norwalk ? Review 2012-01-07T00:31:23Z Waking life implies a fixation of attention on one thread of thought running through a tangled skein. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Wilbur F. Buckelew, Shreveport, La.—The object of this invention is to strengthen the wooden axles of wagons, and to fasten the skeins so that they will not become loose. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z The woman did not like to tell him about the pies, so she said: "My daughter spun five skeins to‑day, My daughter spun five skeins to‑day." The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z He still lives; if that may be called living in which all memory of the past is extinguished, and the present is a mere tangled skein of day-dreams. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Perhaps he does not take the trouble to think how many such skeins would be required to produce a pair of silk stockings. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Show him how Christianity untangles the skeins of business, is the master-key to all true politics, the foundation of law, the compass of commerce, the force of civilization. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z This rod is bent so as to conform to the tapering portion of the axle upon which the skein is placed. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z You may try three times each night, when I bring back the skeins. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z It is not the purpose of this work to add another thread to the already tangled skein of scientific theory. The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena 2011-12-21T03:00:36.570Z The whole tangled skein of Italian politics, in that involved and stormy period, is unravelled with a patience and an insight that are above praise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Look at my length," cried Hamadryad, drawing his yellow and black mottled body through many intricate knots like a skein of colored silk; "think you I was born this way just as I am? The Sa'-Zada Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:18.457Z The rod not only serves to retain the skeins securely in their places, but it also acts as a stay or truss rod for the axle, greatly strengthening it. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z Every night the little black thing brought five skeins, but she could not guess his name. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z The only bright thing in that countenance was the blond hair streaming over the pillows like a skein of curly silk; the flame of the candle shone on it strangely. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Then, as a skein, unconscious of danger, approaches, he suddenly shows himself; the birds, panic-struck, huddle together before they alter their line of flight, and the sportsman fires into the midst of them. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Curious, also, is the belief that trolls like to turn into skeins of yarn when disturbed, and then roll swiftly away. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z The substance which is thus formed has at first the appearance of bubbles on water, afterward increasing in size, it looks like skeins of wool. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z That night the little black thing brought the last five skeins of flax. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Upon the work-table lay a housewife and thimble, and scissors and skeins of worsted and thread, and little scraps of linen and cloth for patches. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Totally undisturbed by this sudden entanglement in a supposedly clear skein, Agrippa waved his hand and smiled. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Northern trees are so clean-limbed and so regular about shedding their leaves when they fade, that these patient hosts, loaded down with the pendent skeins of the tillandsia, seem to be imposed upon. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z And Vondel, inspired logician of the true, unravelling the tangled skein of his country's destiny, also uncoiled the golden thread of our great fate. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But the last month of the year she must spin five skeins each day. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Then she produced from her pocket a skein of thread and two large needles, and handing one to Alice, she proceeded to thread her own. Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z She flung down the skein of wool she was winding and sprang up. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z I'm sure if I can nab either end of the skein it will carry conviction. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z A tangled skein indeed," he mused, "which will take some unravelling. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The girl could have a good time for eleven months, anyway, and there would surely be some way to get the skeins spun. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Arise, you humbled ones, jealous too long; Take off her Greekish marks of my poor service, Make ready her precious body to be tangled In clotted skeins of her affiliate province. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Chicago was considered relatively clean, and however deserved of this virtuous reputation, by the late 1920s its claims of rectitude were supported by a long skein of mediocre seasons. At the University of Chicago, Football and Higher Education Mix 2011-09-17T00:30:39Z The skein of thy life is interwoven with those who are great. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z So look to it, my lord Cardinal; the tangle in the skein was made by your hand. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z "Now, my dear, sit down and spin five skeins before night, or off goes your head." The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z There was a skein of wool yarn on the table. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z "Then you may hold a skein of silk for me to wind." Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z I believe it will all come right by-and-by, like the gigantic unravelling of a gigantic skein.... The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Since then he had sat here quietly buried in thoughts, calmly looking forward to the interview, which was destined finally to unravel the tangled skein of his own diplomacy. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z That night he came back with five skeins of spun flax, but she could not guess his name. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Once, when running with skeins of thread for the princess, she met Pan Yan coming out of the bedchamber of the prince. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z His skein was snapped last time out when runner-up in the July 4 Mr. Prospector S. at the same venue. Brisnet.com: Sean Avery scores 17-1 upset in Vanderbilt 2011-08-08T00:00:52Z With skeins of running, liquid fire she wove over the sky a shimmering panorama of blazing beauty. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z "Yet the skein is still entangled, my lord." The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z “I once heard of a paper of needles, and a skein of silk, worth more than ten dollars.” The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z We well knew that the skeins of wild geese which at this time nightly cross the sky, calling as they fly, would soon have robbed us of our little flock. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Maryino is a cityscape of concrete apartment blocks, tangled skeins of traffic-clogged thoroughfares and, these days, an ever growing array of food chain outlets. Russia Becomes a Magnet for American Fast-Food Chains 2011-08-03T18:01:12Z All in the sunshine, gay as a garden, Lie the skeins for weaving, the blue and gold and red. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z For when the thread is discovered and placed in the hand, it is an easy matter to reach the skein. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z Accordingly the end of a walking-stick was inserted among the green threads, and a skein of them drawn up, dank, dripping, and clinging together in a pasty-looking mass. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z Delicate trails of pale skeins coursed in and out, as if someone had harnessed the webs of a colony of spiders. The French connection 2011-08-01T00:31:14Z With due respect, sir, it's no use asking men of my profession to disentangle a skein of fine thread and refuse to let 'em handle the skein. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Then he added a pinch of a colorless powder, and dipped a skein of silk into the bowl. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z "I am afraid the water is too clear, sir, for an indifferent angler; and it might spoil this skein if I left it partly wound," he answered lamely. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Perhaps it is scarcely possible to separate now all the tangled skeins in the mixed conception of Artemis, or to lay the finger on the germinal conception of her nature. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z To encourage manufacture in early Virginia, prizes in tobacco were given for every pound of flax raised, for every skein of yarn, and for every yard of linen produced. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z "And now for the tangled skein," he said with attempted lightness, while his eyes lit whimsically. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Now if thee will hold the skeins I will wind the yarn of to-day’s spinning ready for knitting.” Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Presently he allowed several loops of thread to slip from the skein he held, and she looked up with a trace of indignation. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The untangling of one snarl in the skein of affairs generally leads to the untangling of many others. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z In the morning, when we came down, my honored Mother gave Basia a skein of tangled silk to wind. The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel 2011-07-10T02:00:25.767Z Cut a skein of cotton in pieces of 3 inches. Knitting, Crochet, and Netting, with Twelve Illustrations 2011-07-10T02:00:18.617Z So saying she uprose from the wheel and took a snowy skein from the reel on the table, and adjusted it upon her mother’s outstretched hands. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z A more melancholy and affecting history than his is not readily to be conceived; and amid the ravelled skein of his ideas, the memory of his grievous wrongs stands clear and imperishable. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Life has woven them into subsequent history, drawing from a skein as tangled as was the skein of thirteen years ago. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Mesh No. 16, 3 skeins of 2nd size purse silk, 70 stitches. Knitting, Crochet, and Netting, with Twelve Illustrations 2011-07-10T02:00:18.617Z “Just as soon as I finish this skein, mother.” Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z The moon has tangled the dull night In her silver skein and set alight Each dew-damp branch with milky flame. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z A rowel is to be made in the dewlap by taking a skein of hemp, tow, or twisted packthread, a foot long, and as thick as a man's thumb. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z So I resolved to wind on my little thread of life day by day, and undo one little knot after another, until now, indeed, the skein has disentangled itself. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The blind swinging open concealed her from any person within; and the position she maintained, while sorting the shades from some skeins of worsted that she held, was that of careless rest. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z Is he choked by a skein of thread? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Ah, gentle! ’tis as weak as spider’s skein; Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Hitherto I had been tearing at it madly and making it worse; now I had got the end of the skein—"osseous matter"—and would soon unravel it. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z "Wind, dear child, wind on, inch by inch, undo each knot one by one, and the skein will soon disentangle itself." Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z How strange it seemed to know of this tangled skein of circumstance, the right thread of which I could not grasp! A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z It remains for the trail-makers to unravel the tangled skein and reduce it to something very remotely resembling a straight line. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z All night long Dolly had been dreaming of her home, unwinding the skeins of the past one by one. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Round his neck were hung several skeins of thread, and on his knees lay a tattered coat. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The fate gave her a skein of silk, and said, "Take care of it, it will be of use to you." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z "Daisy," said Kate, "come and help me to wind this skein." Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z He was skilfully unwinding a skein of spun yarn which he held over his two bare feet, while at the same time he rolled the ball deftly with his stubby, jointless fingers. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z They always conversed with their customers while they measured a yard of silk or sold a skein of thread across their counters. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It is what Rereworth thinks; consoling himself for the loss of those pleasant hours when he disentangled skeins of silk. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z After she had returned home, Caterina said to her mistress, "My fate has made me a present of a skein of silk; what ought I to do with it?" Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z As soon as the skein was wound, I returned to my place by Cornelius; for two hours I persisted in staying there, vainly striving to win a caress, a word, a look. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z She failed to unravel even a little strand of the tangled skein. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z Through this seething, tangled skein, his thoughts seeped for an instant and fled backward. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Young Joseph had to help to wind skeins of wool or cotton. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:41.313Z "Caterina," said her mistress, "your skein of silk is of that colour; take it to the king and he will make you a fine present." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z I could not grasp the skein of them, and I seemed to be plucking helplessly after a dozen elusive phantom-like ideas. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z It is a tangled skein, this life of ours," Stanief said at last, "and not wholly of our spinning. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z That is for your consideration, Sir; you entangled the skein, you must try if you cannot undo it. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z He sat straight up with his pipe in his mouth, and a skein of knitting cotton over his hands, his wife stood in front of him, and wound it into a ball. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:41.313Z "Royal Majesty," she said, "I have brought a skein of silk of the colour you could not find." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The Illustrated London News says:—"From the beginning Mr. Pemberton weaves his romance with such skill that the tangled skein remains for long unravelled ... marked by exceptional power, and holds the attention firmly." First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z As he followed the crooked, twisting passages, Theseus unwound his white skein and left the thread behind him. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Well," muttered he, "I couldn't ask a prettier skein to unravel. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z As he went down the veranda steps he met Milord returning, still dragging the skein of silk. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z On one side the king placed the skein of silk, and on the other a gold piece. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z He sprang to his feet, throwing the golden skein—it was only yarn after all, a coarse yellow yarn—upon the floor. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z At the same time, Woods' winless skein has increased betting on other players. Monday Qualifier: Gary Woodland Makes Vertical Leap 2011-03-21T04:00:00Z No. 16 pins, eight skeins of silk, and four bunches of beads, including those required for the fringe, will be wanted. The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet 2011-03-17T02:00:11.807Z At the same moment, through the narrow opening of the door, out darted a little white dog, dragging after him a large and much entangled skein of bright-colored silk. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z It developed into a skein of small companies that grew into bigger ones. E. B. Leisenring Jr., Coal Executive, Dies at 85 2011-03-12T23:19:13Z She lightly slipped the skeins over the wrists that had known sterner shackles. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Mistress Betty here shall prove it, for I will hold those tangled skeins for her, and she will find that I am patience itself.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z The yellow hemp is unwound, She sees herself a girl, As blonde as the skeins that whirl, She is dancing round and round. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z It had become a side issue, a thread in the tangled skein he had pledged himself to unravel. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z It was like a skein so tangled there was no loose thread to start with. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z Then, conscious of a good day's work accomplished, he went home, to gather up the tangled skeins of the complicated task in hand. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z And so they set themselves, with here a turn and there a backward twist, to that old task of unravelling the snarled skein. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z One day he was assisting the young lady in disentangling a skein of silk; suddenly he said: "Grace, cannot you help me tie a knot that will never untie?" Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z To use a lady’s simile, a skein of thread is a simple thing to unwind when fresh from the weaver’s hands; but, when once entangled, it requires time and patience to unravel it. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z When you came first, did you not walk the Town, In a long Cloak half compass? an old Hat, Lin'd with Vellure, and on it for a band, A skein of crimson Cruil? Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z I felt a little glow of excitement, for here was a clue which might lead me out of the labyrinth—a loose end, which, grasped firmly, might serve to unravel this tangled skein. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z “Stay, Master Singleton, you are dropping the skein—and you promised to be so patient.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z And it was not until long after, when the skeins of the various lives with which her own had become entangled, began to unravel themselves, that she understood what was now perfectly inexplicable to her. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z But the position was extremely difficult, and the skein of life very tangled. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Would she apply the skeins of yarn internationally? Pilgrim Trails A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook 2011-02-02T03:00:24.703Z The next chance to snap the skein is Wednesday against Indiana. James, Heat add to Cleveland's woes, 117-90 2011-02-01T03:03:10Z I hope you will have that skein wound by the time I find the blue one.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z She found one skein that would do, and only one, and she bought it. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z Put the thread up in skeins, and— Then, then, then, Put the thread up in skeins, and— Then, then, yes. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z A skein of silk thread lay on the pavement. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Then it is all the more necessary that I should hear it, as it is possible my poor head may help unravel the skein. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z The Lady Clara de Mowbray, in her own proper person, has of late been but little seen in the twisted and ravelled skein of this history. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z He credits a skein of new Afghan and U.S. security installations and added boots on the ground with extending security, calling them first steps toward establishing the government's credibility. The Taliban Recede in Kandahar: The Coalition's Advance or Winter's? 2010-12-27T09:05:00Z When night comes she returns with four skeins of thread spun and a load of small wood. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z He credits a skein of new Afghan and U.S. security installations and added boots on the ground with extending security, calling them a first step toward establishing the government's credibility. The Taliban Recede in Kandahar: The Coalition's Advance or Winter's? 2010-12-27T09:00:00Z A player shoots until he misses; the skein of successful shots is called a break. Alex Higgins, Bombastic Snooker Champ, Dies at 61 2010-07-31T21:49:00Z The expression was coined by no less a person than Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the intricate skeins of mutual interest, cultural heritage and sometimes gloopy sentiment that bind Washington and London. Special Relationship? Why Britain's Affair With the U.S. Is Over 2010-03-29T16:50:00Z The dogs jump over and in between one another incessantly, and no sooner has one carefully cleared the hauling-ropes than they are twisted into a veritable skein again. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 His brain gathered up the skeins of the case as he hurried along. Whispering Wires Now and then, across the dripping fields, fraying skeins of mist wandered, to lie curdled in the flooded hollows where, here and there, cattle stood lowing at intervals in a mournful key. The Valiants of Virginia Two needles No. 14, 4 skeins of colored German lambs’-wool and 4 of white. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book I went out last night111 and bought a skein of silk, a skein of thread, two buttons and a tin pan for the stove. The Home Life of Poe This coil or skein of ribbon subsequently divides, forming a nuclear spindle, while the chromatin substance collects together in the equatorial plane as in B, Fig. The Mechanism of Life She laid her knitting down on the table and picked up a skein of white wool that lay near. The Gay Adventure A Romance Yes, sir; let contemporaneous man seek to untangle your skein and you flatter him. A Yankee from the West A Novel Five needles No. 17, and 2 skeins of German lambs’-wool of different colors, are required. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book There was one unescapable knot, no matter how she untangled the skein. Cinderella Jane They will take sixteen skeins of white wool and eight of claret—No. 13 needles. My Knitting Book The man who writes the history of woman's love will find himself employed in drawing out a tangled skein. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Illustrated London News.—"From the beginning Mr. Pemberton weaves his romance with such skill that the tangled skein remains for long unravelled ... marked by exceptional power, and holds the attention firmly." A Traitor's Wooing Four needles, No. 13, and German lambs’-wool are required; the wool should be knitted in shades of either half or a whole skein of wool. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book Behold, the knotted skein Which has so often troubled me, at last Untangles of itself. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Four skeins of fine purse-silk, and four needles, No. 23, will be required. My Knitting Book On his mother's side the skein of Lafcadio's lineage is still more full of knots and entanglements than on his father's. Lafcadio Hearn The history of these notable treasures is a knotty skein to disentangle. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Four skeins of colored lambs’-wool and 6 of white; a steel pin No. 14, a flat wooden mesh ½ an inch wide, and a foundation of 120 stitches, are required. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book Dizzy, intoxicated with love and ambition, I crossed the room to where she sat reeling off a skein of blue silk with hands that were whiter than alabaster. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life No. 20 needles, eight skeins of netting silk, and four bunches of beads, including those for the fringe, will be required. My Knitting Book The figures were horses and men all matted and woven together with skeins of scarlet thread. From Bull Run to Appomattox "Oh, yes," Joyce said; "and Piers will be so pleased to hold the skeins for you, mother." Under the Mendips A Tale Two needles No. 10 and 3 skeins of coarse fleecy. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book The needle was hanging from it by a thread, and a skein of green worsted hung over the top, Paula glanced at it inquiringly. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Three skeins of coarse netting silk are required. My Knitting Book Two stiff wooden arms were inserted in the two skeins, and a specially strong bowstring joined the tips of these arms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The little toddler may now make himself useful by holding the skein. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation Indeed, the chances are that Rutledge is about the only man who could have unravelled so tangled a skein. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Up above the mountain tops, long skeins of great birds, all following one another slowly and majestically in an endless maze of evolutions, were silhouetted black against the flaming heavens. Tales of South Africa When is a skein of thread like the root of an oak? The Handbook of Conundrums The skeins that supplied the motive force of all these engines were made of the sinews of animals, twisted raw hide, horsehair rope, and, in at least one celebrated case, of women’s hair. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Sometimes I dye one end of a skein, and leave the other untouched; that gives quite a good effect. Lady Cassandra She came to meet them with a skein of silk around her neck. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The table was already covered with the velvet cloth in question which reached down to the ground; on it were lying skeins of silk, fringes and gold thread. Peasant Tales of Russia At last he held a thread in this extraordinary tangled skein. The Heart of a Woman In each a thick skein of cord or sinews was fastened to the top and bottom sills and tightly twisted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" At this juncture, however, old Mause steps forward and unravels the tangled skein. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series I cut a slice out of him; it was like a skein of wire, so tough and unfishlike. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa In coming home, his satchel sometimes contained a few skeins of silk, some herb tea, leeches in a phial, patent medicine, or some other purchase he had been commissioned to make. Black Forest Village Stories After it they set their wheels whirling, and all day long they spun busily till many skeins of shining silk were ready to be woven into elfin cloth. Lulu's Library, Volume II If, therefore, as we have said, Annesley Beecher's explanation of these tangled skeins was none of the clearest, there was nothing daunting to himself in that difficulty. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day To secure the legs, when they can be felt, Blaine recommends a skein of worsted. The Dog One skein, two skeins, three skeins, and still the spool was full. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales It was not kept in a drawing-room alcove to prove its long ancestry, but steadily, busily hummed all day long as the soft rolls of wool changed into skeins and balls of yarn or thread. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 The combining result was a tangled skein of sound which could be unravelled only as it had been put together, by rule. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Pages could be written of the tangled skeins, the complex situations, the confusion and congestion that were all brought about by extra mileage of an ocean voyage. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war And begin at the beginning, that's the only way to straighten a tangled skein.” Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion An anecdote, as far as regards the skein of silk, somewhat more housewifely than queenly. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries It redounds, they opine, to the honour of their great-mindedness to be thought capable of living, for an hour or two, by themselves, at a considerable distance from knots or skeins of their fellow-creatures. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) She had long since abandoned the effort to disentangle the skein of that day’s events. The Silent Barrier Process of dyeing yarn or raffia Clear days are best for dyeing Before dyeing yarn or raffia, bind the skeins loosely in several places to prevent tangling. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home "Well?" said Miss Emily, winding very swiftly on a skein of black silk, and giving a little twitch, every now and then, to a knot to make it subservient. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine They had found her, before dinner, with her feet entangled in a skein of worsted. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur With that matchless gift which old Yankee housewives call faculty, Mary kept together all the ends of her ravelled skein of life, and began to make them wind smoothly. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings On the contrary, it adds another tangle in the skein which children at school must untangle. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Must read till their brows are sweating, And must try to disentangle Knotty twisted skeins forever. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Lys. Just as a woman, with nimble dexterity, thus with her hands disentangles a skein. Pot-Boilers But there was still another parcel, a white one, the prettiest of all, for it held skeins of all the soft shades of embroidery silk you ever saw in a white silk case. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted From the aperture a coil and grid dangled half out in the midst of a tangled skein of wires. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Indeed, I couldn't let go the skein of the story for fear that I might fall off somewhere into a gloomy chasm and be devoured by chromatic wolves. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It did nothing of the sort; it merely wove fresh perplexities into the tangled skein of her thoughts. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman And so the tangled skein straightened itself out, and the little household at No. 2 Heather Road went on very happily. A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends The skein was a very tangled one, but gradually I drew out the threads. The Count's Chauffeur She took the silks, And drew out shade for shade, In sep'rate skeins, Each hue with care she laid; Then smiling kindly, Left the little maid. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 That alone is to me a mystic thread in the skein of my complex life, a thread which may not be severed without peril. An Ocean Tramp Don’t you fret; Ruthie, I’m hog tied by the silken skein of love. In the Heart of a Fool Her caprices fell from her, and she was the shrewd woman of the world, a deft creature of courts, a cunning weaver of the delicate skeins of intrigue and politics. The Missourian "Why will Mrs. Petre tell lies, Senos?" demanded Edwards who, with Frémy, was listening with the greatest interest and putting the threads of the tangled skein together in their proper sequence. The Sign of Silence That morning the smoke rolled from her funnels in a twisted skein. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards "No living writer can surpass Mr. Crawford in the construction of a complicated plot and the skilful unravelling of the tangled skein." The Romance of a Plain Man Rightly elucidated, the philosophical historian will find in it an invaluable clue to the unravelment of the tangled skein of human endeavor. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion And while these strands were being knit into the skein Martinez was producing another. In the Shadow of the Hills A skein of coarse thread hung about her neck, and a steel thimble was upon her long, slender finger, where it had worn a ring about the nail with incessant use. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals In the evening it was a pleasure to hold a skein of yarn for her to wind. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance They make lots for the soldiers, out of skeins of long yarn; mamma says you are a famous fellow for spinning splendid yarns yourself. The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series But the prettiest thing of all was the head half fallen from the pillow and half smothered in the tangled skeins of hair. In a Little Town The axles were of wood, with the old-time linchpins and steel skeins, which called for the use of tar and the tar bucket instead of axle grease. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Your reputation, both as a scientist and as an unraveller of tangled skeins, is too good for me to boggle about your methods. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Pine Apple Purse.—The material is purse twist, and you will require two colors; one skein of green, and one and a half of orange. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet The influence of the Queen upon Charles is the last strand in this tangled skein of human destiny brought out by Browning in the scene. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning No silken skein, no spinning-wheel, No bobbin and no winding reel. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Mrs. Gordon had resumed her knitting, while Sue and Ned, after disputing some time whose turn it was to hold the yarn, were busily employed in winding a skein of worsted into birds-nest balls. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 When dry, cut the skein across where it is tied double, and with a bodkin and string, or with a long hair-pin, draw the crewel into its case. Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly You must have a No. 12 mesh, and five skeins of silk. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Pall Mall Gazette: As tangled a skein as ever the brain of Gaboriau evolved. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real There was a skein of blue silk swinging over the edge of the table. The Flying Mercury Dr. H. pointed silently to a skein of silk of a corresponding set which he had retained, and which he took care Madame Zancig could not see. Telepathy Genuine and Fraudulent As for Alice, she felt herself more and more involved in the tangled skein of his mysterious life. They of the High Trails A Seam Purse, with Beads.—You will need four skeins of fine silk, and a mesh, No. 8. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Silk is wound off into skeins by a mill turned by the artificial falls of the aqueduct. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Cotton may be mercerized either in the yarn, warp, skein, or in the piece, the first being more effective. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Dr. H., principal surgeon of a well-known hospital, handed to Mr. Zancig a set of skeins of silk of different colours. Telepathy Genuine and Fraudulent Tobacco, skeins of cotton, brass buttons, cakes, crackers, cents, sticks of candy, bits of ribbon, were received by the Indians without a word or nod of acknowledgment. The Cabin on the Prairie You must have two skeins of second sized silk, and a No. 10 mesh. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet "But I haven't even a skein of embroidery silk!" sighed Gipsy afterwards to them in private. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life But she had picked up another thread of this tangled skein, and that made her exult with a new hope. Counsel for the Defense If he differs at all from others, it is in this, that he desires no costly thread of gold, no bright-hued skein that he may weave his texture of life. Beside Still Waters Still the rose and still the rapture Woven through the tangled skein, And the joys we still shall capture At the turning of the lane. Oklahoma Sunshine Plain Netted Gentleman’s Purse.—Of coarse netting silk, you will require five skeins, and a mesh, No. 13. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Primrose Henry put on her camlet cloak and took several skeins of yarn to one of the old ladies in the almshouses, to knit some stockings for some other poor. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia How refreshing, on the other hand, to follow the clear unfolding of the silken threads of thought that lie side by side, single and in knots and skeins, but never tangled. The History of Dartmouth College He said he had never known anything so wonderful as the deft manner in which these people worked out the little skeins from an intricate mass of tangled webs. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China But the words, the atmosphere of the letter made Faith breathe easier,—it was like the wand of the Fairy Order, smoothing out the little tangled skeins of silk. Say and Seal, Volume II Then might be perceived the zealots, proud in their Talmudical lore, holding the skein of white silk in their hands, and announcing the approach of the sabbath by their observation of its shifting tints. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture He held the skein; of course the thread Got tangled, snarled and twisted; "Have Patience!" cried the artless maid, To him who her assisted. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition It was unaccountable—but there!—he could not try to unravel that skein now. Somehow Good He had sworn to himself that he would not tell Elizabeth he loved her, until he had succeeded in unravelling the tangled skein of the terrible Dollon affair. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas In a quarter of an hour in came our supper,—black bread, fried eggs, and a skein of wine. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Christina had not heard of Gavin's sudden call, and while he was driving away in the wind and rain, she was sitting by the fire winding a skein of yarn which Wallace Sutherland was holding. In Orchard Glen "Here is a reel that will neither tangle nor break your skeins, will you use it?" Moods It left behind it a track of skeins and volumes, which had trickled from the fugitive, but were recovered by a domestic, and pronounced dry. Somehow Good It was a part of himself, woven unchangeably into his life in a glowing skein, the brilliant colors of which could never fade. The New Tenant Poor little silken skein, so dear to you. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 "Christina, my dear," Mrs. Sutherland said, "will you be so good as to fetch me another skein of this sweater-coat yarn from the storeroom?" In Orchard Glen He was mischievously occupied in knotting the skein of thread which his grandmother was using. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story But one bright golden thread ran clear through all the tangled skeins—he would leave Rosey happy at last, for all the bitterness her cup of life had held before. Somehow Good Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble, Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou; Braved in my own house by a skein of thread! Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare The surgeon held up a skein of yarn. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army These records—in skeins of many-coloured thread—were inspected at headquarters and carefully preserved, the whole collection constituting what might be call the national archives. The Red True Story Book Trailing out across it, skeins and wisps of birds moved up from the south. Hawtrey's Deputy Hermione passed, nor ever knew how, by taking this way from the house of a friend, she coloured the skein of life for three mortals—for herself, her husband, and Democrates. A Victor of Salamis Their heads were shaved every Saturday, and their long tails freshly plaited up with skeins of black or red strong silk, made on purpose. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Her life, she feels, is but a tangled skein. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds The magician's wand, with which we strike the sunbeam and sort the tangled skein into perfect order, is the simple instrument known as the glass prism. The Story of the Heavens |
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