skein

The skein of life is drawn together to a point at the two ends and spread out in the middle.

To secure the legs, when they can be felt, Blaine recommends a skein of worsted.

Then he added a pinch of a colorless powder, and dipped a skein of silk into the bowl.

No errand was half as welcome as one to Uncle Josh, when they might take an egg and get a skein of cotton.

And trying to untangle the skein, I was a good deal startled to feel a touch on my arm as I reached the sidewalk.

Over the roofs of Kensington a haze was beginning to make itself visible, as impalpable as a skein of smoke; yet there it was.

The negotiation with the French Government was but one of the threads in the skein.

That alone is to me a mystic thread in the skein of my complex life, a thread which may not be severed without peril.

She was cloaked by a skein of ravelled fluff beneath us and we caught the chant before she rose into the sunlight.

I am almost minded to make you hold this skein of yarn, as a penance, while I wind it.