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Usage examples of spool.

Kamov-26 helicopter started spinning rapidly as Manso spooled up the revs of the jet turbine engine.

Returning to the spools of microfilm and also to the hardcopy issues of the daily Register, we continued our research.

Tiny doors swung open on the underside and long spools of microlight fiber dropped down from the ring.

Machines on the surface dug what looked to Jory like simple trenches, and unwound spools of the equivalent of barbed wire, long strands of polyphase matter, each displaying a quasi intelligence on the level of that of an ant or bee, programmed to entrap or at least delay berserker landing machines when they appeared.

Jules and Yvette studied, analyzed and restudied fortyseven spools of top-secret data, then sent them-topsecretly-through channels back to the Head.

It sounded like a tornado, or the sound of some odd jet engine spooling up.

With the helo airborne, we were already at flight quarters, but now the hard rolling thunder of a Tomcat engine spooling up rattled the 03 level.

I found a spool of unexposed black and white film, loaded the camera and got to work.

I was in the mood to flick through the pages of 99 Unretouched Scandinavian Virgins Deflowered In Full Color and then toddle off to my antique spool bed.

Gears -engaged with a clatter, bearings began grinding just audibly beneath the music, and the canvas began moving slowly across the stage, feeding from the full spool toward the empty.

Instead the mild little inventor, with his spools and his pulleys, his bits of wire and his measureless reaches of string, pursued his peaceful though tortuous way, and if his abode became transformed into a magnified cobweb only himself and Celestina were inconvenienced thereby.

Computers spooled tape and illuminated buttons flashed in sequence, though what that signified Charlton had no idea.

He had an emblade which was useless as a weapon, a single spraytube of fadeaway, a sonic bomb and a spool of fineline left to him.

We repeat, however, that books, films, spools, and exhibits on such subjects as shoplifting, explosives, safe-cracking, mental-suggestion, seduction, death rays, hypnotism, aphrodisiacs, sabotage, secret jujitsu blows, and undetectable murder methods are forbidden under a law which has just been enacted.

Raised on its kickstand, the rear wheel turned freely against a simple wooden spool that in turn drove the gears that powered the drill cables.