spinning-wheel

They had determined to go through the mirror in the spinning-wheel room, the room next door to the nursery, and search the entire second floor.

The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

The message of the spinning-wheel is much wider than its circumference.

Gandhi got it right 2007

Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, no spinning-wheel, not a tool.

Les Miserables 2008

This answered my plan; and as she was about to remove her spinning-wheel, I begged she would have the goodness to remain and make my tea, adding that I liked the sound of the wheel, and desired not to disturb her housewife thrift in the least.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“I can do a jump spinning-wheel kick to your head,” I wanted to say, but did not.

My Resolution Jack Canfield 2008

When it rained, an old woman, the portress, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from cold.

Les Miserables 2008

“I can do a jump spinning-wheel kick to your head,” I wanted to say, but did not.

My Resolution Jack Canfield 2008

When Nanon came with her spinning-wheel, “You must be tired,” he said;

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

The spinning-wheel sounds louder and nearer, weaving perhaps new garments of destiny like a fate; and the Ford car is wreaked upon every road.

G.K.'s Weekly - The Horror 2007

There are, indeed, not a few sticklers for the old-fashioned ways; not a few, who stoutly condemn the modern mania for accomplishments; who would banish harp and piano, and reinstate the spinning-wheel; honor the kitchen and dairy far before the drawing-room; close their houses to the dancing-master, as to a pestilence, and think money worse than thrown away, when given for instruction in French or Italian.

Women's Sphere of Influence on Civilization (1837) 2003