Literary notes about Yarn (AI summary)
In literature, the word yarn carries a dual significance. It often signifies a tale or an account of events—sometimes an embellished narrative meant to entertain or mislead as when characters spin a long, winding yarn ([1], [2], [3]). Simultaneously, its literal meaning as spun thread or fibrous material serves as a vivid image of fabrication and interconnectedness, evoking visions of domestic handiwork or industrial processing ([4], [5], [6]). This interplay of tangible and metaphorical threads highlights how yarn has become a flexible symbol for the intricate web of storytelling itself ([7]).
- Chapter 36 The Professor's Yarn IT was in the early days.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain - I was enough of a hunter to know a true yarn when I heard it.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Maybe you think I am just slinging you a yarn.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 323 It is good spinning from another’s yarn, 324 It is good to be a priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time,
— from A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs - Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - Foreign materials are, upon this account, sometimes allowed to be imported duty-free; spanish wool, for example, flax, and raw linen yarn.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
