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“I feel your interest, and I know you are interested in yarns from the front; and I only wish you were not so busy, and that my voice could ramble on and on, and I could tell you many more instances; but I trust that now you have made me a member of your Club there may be an opportunity of coming back to Toronto again during the next few months, perhaps not as an invited guest, but as one of your own members, and be able to spend a few more moments with you some evening as pleasantly as I have today.”
“Defendant manufactured certain yarns that were labeled as containing cashmere, but their cashmere content was allegedly below that labeled or even nonexistent.”
“Reliable information was at a premium; there was no verifying or disproving of rumors and yarns from the East.”
“So perhaps my knitter's obsession with flecked yarns is not simply an addiction, but is rooted in a deeper artistic vision: that of the greater beauty of delicately trembling variety.”
“But issues are easier to revisit and spin yarns about than not having issues.”
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“The sky will also be covered in yarns, but the sea will be beaded.”
“Some of you very pragmatic people still think that maybe I spin yarns of a fairy tale.”
“Iain Banks gets a lot of praise for his "literature" novels, but Iain M Banks still writes "yarns" - good at what they are, well-told, but somehow lesser.”
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“In brocade weaving, extra yarns are added to the cloth and passed to the front or back of the basic structure, as the design requires.”
“A fine, crisp, sheer linen made of wiry yarns, which is sometimes called altar cloth and is used for that purpose.”
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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story telling
palimpsest, manuscript, epilogue, compendium, soliloquy, monologue, proverbial, fabulist, yarns, lyricism, lore, prologue and 2 more...
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