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  • These words open Watch The Throne, and give a strong hint of the kind of lyrical word-spinning -- and thematic undertones -- in store on Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative effort.

    Watch The Throne Released: Jay-Z And Kanye West Album Drops On iTunes (LIVEBLOG) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Mr. Sims seeks to discover how E.B. White, a longtime New Yorker editor, came to write the 1952 children's classic about how a word-spinning spider saves Wilbur the Pig from the butcher and teaches him the lessons of friendship.

    Some Pig, Some Book Anthony Esolen 2011

  • These words open Watch The Throne, and give a strong hint of the kind of lyrical word-spinning -- and thematic undertones -- in store on Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative effort.

    Watch The Throne Released: Jay-Z And Kanye West Album Drops On iTunes (LIVEBLOG) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Mr. Sims seeks to discover how E.B. White, a longtime New Yorker editor, came to write the 1952 children's classic about how a word-spinning spider saves Wilbur the Pig from the butcher and teaches him the lessons of friendship.

    Some Pig, Some Book Anthony Esolen 2011

  • Dave Anderson was just a regular guy who taught English for seven years at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, but stepping out of the role of your average college professor, Dave became a stay-at-home dad to his adorable twins, now age three, and while juggling dad duties, he used his word-spinning magic to create a world both fantastical and funny, about heroes who aren't exactly intimidating muscle-bound swashbucklers, but just...regular guys.

    Archive 2008-11-01 a. fortis 2008

  • Dave Anderson was just a regular guy who taught English for seven years at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, but stepping out of the role of your average college professor, Dave became a stay-at-home dad to his adorable twins, now age three, and while juggling dad duties, he used his word-spinning magic to create a world both fantastical and funny, about heroes who aren't exactly intimidating muscle-bound swashbucklers, but just...regular guys.

    The WritingYA Weblog: The WBBT, Day Four: John David Anderson a. fortis 2008

  • They still stand as the round pegs in the square (w) hole, a law unto themselves in the arbitrary scheme, the word-spinning abstraction, the breaking-up and breaking-down of their own mystique.

    FallNews - still all mud and witches 2000

  • As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century thinkers endeavored to fathom this riddle chiefly by theological word-spinning.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century thinkers endeavored to fathom this riddle chiefly by theological word-spinning.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century thinkers endeavored to fathom this riddle chiefly by theological word-spinning.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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