He placed the kite at one side of the Great Lawn and drew out the spindle of string to the other.
The brain develops as a sheet of cells, and the spindle of a dividing cell can be oriented parallel or perpendicular to the sheet.
Un Lun Dun has a sun like a compact disc, a moon like the spindle of a cat's eye and roving headlights with no cars.
Maybe not, but nor does he deserve to be the spindle of the movie, around whom all the plotlines are wound.
One had even sneaked out an entire manufacturing spindle of three hundred disks, and was selling them for five dollars each.
About the only thing missing is the plastic insert that used to let the 45's fit on the spindle of a turntable made for LP's.
This narcissistic despair is multiplied by Wallinger's colossal black sculpture, like a column or a spindle, of the capital letter I, which is in Freud's garden as a permanent work.
You can do this by adding a USB thumb driver or external hard drive or buying a spindle of CD-R discs or signing up to an online service where you can store things.
It is decreed, say, that when two major characters, who have prowled around each other at a distance, finally meet for a showdown, it should take place on a thin spindle of bridge, above a gulping abyss.
Geared to the spindle of the lathe, the lead screw advanced the tool at a constant rate of speed and guaranteed accurate screw threads.
Perhaps it is, in which case circularity also fits the threading of our lives round the spindle of the Fates, that gossipy trio with their flashing scissors.
