drawing-in

Again Nalasu waited, until the rustlings of a fresh drawing-in of the circle could be heard, whereupon Nalasu, Jerry accompanying him, picked up all his arrows and moved soundlessly half-way around the circle.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

But the afternoon ran on without incident until the bluish drawing-in of dusk.

'The Little Stranger' 2009

This disagreement in print is not especially surprising: published attacks on published works, public rebuttals and the drawing-in of others occur in all genres of eighteenth-century writing. reference Nor was this the only attack, real or imagined, which involved Watin.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

He was liked and he liked being liked; he had, in fact, a habit of existence eminently unsuited to the drawing-in of horns.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

All it did give me, in its majestic proportions, and its undignified death, was an interval of respite, of nerve-calming patience, a deep breath-taking perception of life passing, a drawing-in of the faith and industry that had designed and built here four hundred years earlier.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

The looming of warps involves the hanging of the healds vertically in a drawing-in frame.

Chapter 6 1983

Talking about your mother doing the drawing-in at home, they must have been real hard up to find workers if they had ...

Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980

Meggie was lying on the bed, wide-eyed and giving no indication of pain except for an occasional spasm of her hands, a drawing-in of her body.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

If the Earth grew from a small nucleus to its present size by the extremely gradual drawing-in of innumerable small masses in its neighborhood, the process would always be slow; much slower at first when the small nucleus had low gravitating powers, more rapid when the body was of good size and the store of materials to draw upon plentiful, and gradually slower and slower as the supply of building materials was depleted.

Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

These form the simplest and most common method of drawing-in.

Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics Arnold Wolfensberger