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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A knotted skein of nylon straps was looped round his chest.
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But now, the old skein of mutual responsibility was unraveling.
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Goneril slunk into the kitchen and wound her body like a fat skein of wool around my feet.
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He rose, walked round the table and picked up the skein .
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Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
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Priscillian's own teaching was characterised by a marked strain of Nestorian thought, as well as by skeins of Gnostic Manichaeanism.
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The runway had upon it a light skein of mist, and he sailed through it and up into the high air.
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There was a sadness, formless as a skein , enveloping us.