There is no doubting that this is classic King at his yarn-spinning best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

Big Fish, the yarn of the boy who learns yarn-spinning ain't so bad, was a disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference

All the same, it's hard not to warm tothe fluency and copiousness of Mitchell's yarn-spinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers] Reference

So at last they returned to their own tent, to the yarn-spinning threshers and the silent old cowpuncher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

It could also be the product of a runaway imagination, or yarn-spinning for the sake of a little attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottom Line: How Crazy Is It?] Reference

In the past I'd simply have cranked these out, counting on my natural yarn-spinning instincts to carry the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

But Mr. BRIDGES 'dialogue is nearly always bright, and his knowledge of the machinery of yarn-spinning excellent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference

Considering that a résumé is usually a single sheet of paper, there are surprisingly many opportunities for yarn-spinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Common Resume Lies] Reference

The Eternal Night is quite taken with the galactic yarn-spinning of Mike Resnick's Starship: Pirate: Resnick does have a very definite style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

I bet if you were in one of those tall tale contests you would have a hard time with the yarn-spinning because your true stories are so extreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I don’t use spell-checkers « knitnut.net] Reference

AfterTai and Rosita married, they bought some yarn-spinning machines that Rosita realised would give them far more creative potential with colour and pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missoni: a family always in fashion] Reference

Judges would suspend business till "that Lincoln fellow got through with his yarn-spinning" or underhandedly would direct the usher to get the rich bit Lincoln told, and repeat it at the recess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

He has written a visceral chronicle of the murderous modern era and animated it with a zest for yarn-spinning that derives from the oral traditions of the Middle Ages, if not the ancient Greeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going to Sea Once More] Reference

Tensaro wanted to hear what Shaun would tell; they had become friendly in the past few days, and besides, a real yarn-spinning with a bardic accompaniment was an art practiced in just four ships, which did not include Eagle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

And then you have long-term contracts on yarn-spinning capacity, correct?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

Good-natured with feasting, and roused by the babel around him, he began yarn-spinning at the first hint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference

In late 2007, for instance, Stowe's yarn-spinning plant in Belmont closed, displacing nearly 140 workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference

Both revealed the yarn-spinning skill she inherited from her father and the love of words bequeathed by her mom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

It's the perfect gift for your yarn-spinning know-it-all grandpa, except now he'll actually get his facts straight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference

"I'm afraid I'm a poor hand at yarn-spinning, doctor," said Weymouth, turning his blue, twinkling eyes in my direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil Doctor] Reference

And this delightful yarn-spinning was also dropped as he became more and more absorbed in his mathematical and other studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

What's the relative capacity you have versus your expected ramp in finishing capacity in the fiscal '11 on the yarn-spinning side?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

"You are kind to be interested, and I am unfortunate in never seeing you save under circumstances unfavourable for yarn-spinning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference

Sibert reports on the daily life of her family, including bread-making, yarn-spinning, and an "apple butter boiling" in her neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augusta County: Mary Anna Sibert to David H. Evans, September 12, 1867] Reference

The cool nights following the hot days were favorable to little gossiping seances like the yarn-spinning watches of sailors on pleasant nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 2] Reference

"Won't you let Mr. Ford see your life-book, Captain Jim?" asked Anne, when Captain Jim finally declared that yarn-spinning must end for the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference

There was a great deal of yarn-spinning, some capital singing, and a great deal of wine-drinking, too, on the part of one or two of the guests, notwithstanding which latter drawback we spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference

Judges would suspend business till “that Lincoln fellow got through with his yarn-spinning” or underhandedly would direct the usher to get the rich bit Lincoln told, and repeat it at the recess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book]

No tarring, greasing, oiling, painting, scraping or scrubbing but what is positively necessary, and no yarn-spinning but that of telling travellers 'tales, which seamen aptly describe as spinning yarns.    From Wordnik.com.  [We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys] Reference

Lanxi Sunrise has one yarn-spinning factory and two fabric weaving factories in its 28,000 square meters of building area with a staff of 1,500 and 310 sets of world-class, advanced production machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Linen Textile Industry, Ltd. Appoints Jodie Zheng Wehner as Chief Financial... -- LANXI COUNTY, China, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ --] Reference

State of Play State of Play was co-written by Michael Clayton (2007) scribe Tony Gilroy, so you'd be forgiven for thinking that his new project would continue in the vein of taut bureaucratic yarn-spinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories] Reference

Sam Rogers told me the story that follows, as we sat in the coils of the foremain and topsail braces -- easy chairs aboard ship -- and, sheltered from the blast of wind and spume by the high-weather rail, killed time in the night-watch by yarn-spinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

Such stories of marital bliss might become irritating — or at least easy to dismiss as writerly yarn-spinning — if Mr. Trillin didn’t seem to miss his wife so much all these years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calvin Trillin Loves His Wife] Reference

A fine example of yarn-spinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herzog and the Monsters] Reference

"I suppose the gist of all your yarn-spinning is, that you have found a stranger prowling about the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference

I the possessor of a title and fortune -- I no longer a rattan-using, call-blowing, grog-drinking, pipe-smoking, yarn-spinning boatswain, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference