What is "spinstress"

Usage examples of "spinstress".

But, in this particular case, the vanity of the spinstress has naught to say to the matter: the strong silk zigzag is added to impart greater firmness to the web.

There is nothing missing, nothing except the essential thing, the eggs, for which the spinstress has gone to such expense in the matter of silks.

At last, it breaks and vanishes in the distance, carrying the spinstress hanging to it.

Once this or the other course is taken, the spinstress does not change it, even after incidents that sometimes occur to disturb the progress of the work.

The spinstress is busy upon her great spiral at the very moment when the village big-wigs arrive with trumpet and drum and small boys carrying torches.

Can the Labyrinth Spider, that other spinstress of accomplished merit, be ignorant of the precepts of beauty when the time comes for her to weave a tent for her offspring?

It is a case of the resistance of Gordian knots, which not even the very spinstress who fastened them is capable of untying.

There was Miss Bangs, an antique spinstress, who taught in the public schools of New York City and soon would have her pension, and thereafter, it was thought, would retire forever, four seasons of the year, to the elegant seclusion of Mrs.

This slenderness on the part of the spinstresses must not prejudice us against their work: there is no parity between their skill and their years.

If I can neither go nor send to these two, I will get all the spinstresses in France to spin it, rather than that I should remain longer in your hands.