List of synonyms from "sitting duck" to synonyms from "skeletal"
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Definition of the day : « skein »
- noun tangle
- She will remember now that a skein of hemp thread is not the thing to line her nest with.
- Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
- There was a skein of blue silk swinging over the edge of the table.
- Extract from : « The Flying Mercury » by Eleanor M. Ingram
- In the evening it was a pleasure to hold a skein of yarn for her to wind.
- Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin
- That doesn't matter a bit, you must wait till the skein is unwound.
- Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai
- It was this time a skein of silk that the little lady wanted to have unwound.
- Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai
- She parted with caressing fingers the skein of tow on the frowsled head.
- Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
- Shall we think that our prayers can avert a doom woven with the skein of events?
- Extract from : « Eugene Aram, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Uncle Nicholas,” said Amber, “you promised to buy me a skein of blue silk.
- Extract from : « Newton Forster » by Captain Frederick Marryat
- In a little while Alice asked her to hold a skein of cotton for her while she wound it.
- Extract from : « The Wide, Wide World » by Susan Warner
- The negotiation with the French Government was but one of the threads in the skein.
- Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing