Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Spinner

One who spins yarn or thread from wool or cotton.

"It seemed as if, first in her own fire within the house, and then in the fiery haze without, she tried to discover what kind of woof Old Time, that greatest and longest-established Spinner of all, would weave from the threads he had already spun into a woman. But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854).

1 comment:

  1. The spinner of yarns
    Held us rapt in woolly tales,
    While the logs crackled.

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