"I haven't heard any yarn about him," said the Bibliomaniac.
You don't yourself believe that last yarn about the Prohibition candidate, do you?"
After more of the same kind of talk, he began to cook up some yarn to tell the valet.
She held in her hand a distaff, wound with black and white woollen yarn, with which were sparingly intermixed strands of silk and gold.
I want you to note the contents of her beautiful home; if she likes dogs or cats or horses. You will take a camera and get half a dozen good pictures, and a page yarn for Easter Sunday.
'May I ask,' I said, beginning to think that his yarn smelt somewhat fishy, 'what house this was?' 'The place,' he replied, as cool as a cucumber, 'is called Clover Cottage.' 'What's that!' I cried--I almost jumped out of my chair.
Well, as I was about to observe--when I was interrupted--Graham started spinning a yarn about how he had forced his way into a house, in which there was a young woman all alone, by herself, and, so far as I could make out, gone on awful.