A spindling branch rubbed against the window to make the mysterious scratching sound in the night. From LearnThat.org.
Ben, whenever I try to answer this, I feel my brain spindling off into a thousand different directions at once. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Secret] Reference
The trees were twisted, spindling, and overgrown with. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER III] Reference
He had round, stooping shoulders, and long, spindling limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But twasn't good all roundabout for the prickles were spindling. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
It was one of those spindling pines that seem to pierce the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas] Reference
Peri hauled on his reins to bring his spindling to a clattering halt. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Maco's first independent decision was to organize a wild spindling hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
It presents the appearance of a very top-heavy head on a very spindling stem. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
A porch jutted out in front, spindling uprights supporting the slanting roof. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
He is the only real man in this whole spindling, self-seeking, artificial crowd!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
I need dowel rods to finish making several spindles for my drop spindling class. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Baked!] Reference
The wiry and spindling growth of grass and grain crops may indicate too much water. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
It would likely take them many days before they even glimpsed their first wild spindling. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
As it turned out I did indeed learn a lot, but it wasn`t going to be about conventional spindling. From Wordnik.com. [SkipNorth vs PluckyFluff.] Reference
So I thought it might be a good idea to go to the spindling workshop and learn to spindle properly. From Wordnik.com. [SkipNorth vs PluckyFluff.] Reference
It cannot be fought by attacking its spindling heads, each of its hissing mouths dripping with black poison. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Hopelessness] Reference
Fark is holding a competition to generate an official toon mascot for folding, spindling, mutilating and animating. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives] Reference
It somehow made one think of an enormous and misshapen insect, standing elaborately high on inadequate, spindling legs. From Wordnik.com. [Space Platform]
Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the sea and still spindling slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
Weak, spindling plants rarely produce large, vigorous shoots, the leaves of such suckers are generally small and of a yellowish color. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Standing on the spindling tower of the Matterhorn early one August morning in 1894 I saw, for the first time, the white crown of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
People in offices were accustomed to spindling papers, i.e. mashing them down on an upright needle to sequence them and hold them in place. From Wordnik.com. [Did Bill Gates Really Say That? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
A spindling, overgrown boy rose fumbling at his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
That spindling escritoire, for instance, and that mincing. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
They were so spindling and delicate that they were the death of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Mountaineers Short Stories] Reference
That fellow under the Alpine hat is equal to at least four of these spindling. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty] Reference
If the legs still were somewhat spindling their correctly creased casings hid the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
And, peering out, it had beheld a spindling child; a human atom, without strength or weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
His bamboo legs, his spindling arms, his pale face, his contracted chest, all gave the coward. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier School-boy] Reference
The French foliage is thin, spindling, sparse; the grass is thin and light in color -- in contrast. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Here and there a spindling blade had come through, and some of those seemed about to turn into grass. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference
There was a day bed -- a narrow and spindling affair for a woman of her height and comfortable plumpness. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
"Here, sir," squealed Timothy, his usual gruff voice spindling into a small cheep through his great perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
But tenderness and care brought him through, and he grew into a tall, spindling boy whose intellect far outmatched his body. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
The torso was supported by a spindling pair of legs, while the rubicund tints on the cheek-bones bore testimony to a rollicking life. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
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