reeled

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Sincerely, Not Interested in Being Reeled Back In I think you already answered your question: You want nothing more to do with Carrie.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2011

Time's beating wing subsided, and the winds Caught up their breathing, and the world's great pulse Stayed in mid-throb, and the wild train of life Reeled by, and left us stranded on a hush.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

Reeled silk comes direct from the cocoon, leaving the filatures on spools, as you saw when you were here before.

From The Story of Silk by Price, Hattie Longstreet

Hawking ruin, wood-slope, and vine Reeled silver-laced under my vision, And into me passed, with the green-eyed wine Knocking hard at my head for admission.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George

Reeled into a skein, the wool is now all but ready for the fingers of the knitter; it has but to be wound in a ball.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.