Irish yarn-spinner Conor McPherson, best known for the haunting— Top Story
Monday: As part of a week of storytelling at the Barbican, the Arts Foundation is awarding a £10k scholarship to one great yarn-spinner.— Londonist
Any other yarn-spinner would have killed the male idiot by murder, or a drop from a precipice, or— Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2.
And he, a little flattered at our keen appreciation of his talent as a yarn-spinner, would appear inclined to yield.— Far Away and Long Ago
Lucky for you, too, you yarn-spinner, that the thing did develop so, or you wouldn't be getting fame and shekels out of the results of my story.— Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1.
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