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Officials said the skein was too small to cause a problem.

It was because, he realized, his skein had not yet run its course.

"I see a great skein of lines coming together," she said.

The whole skein of thought was tangled worse than ever.

Whatever happens is tangled up in the skein of life and art.

The skeins of it were rich in color and texture.

He rose, walked round the table and picked up the skein.

The most common size, however, produces a two yard skein.

In 1977 the skein of any agreement on wages policy began to come apart.

"I need you here to help me ball a skein of yarn."

What path to take across the impossible skein of vines.

But the same data also suggest a different skein.

Tomorrow he would take his skein further a field.

If the group of geese is flying, it becomes a skein.

And once they had him again at the Yard, the skein would begin to unravel.

The skeins are placed on a reel in a frame with many others.

You try and stretch a skein across a skeleton that does not fit.

"It is a tangled skein we work from," she said.

A gentle hand drew the tangled skein of hair away from her face.

The song that starts Skein is not identified in the text.

He fumbled for a moment, then found the tangled skein of hair.

The smoke straightened into a long skein under the lamp.

And no other junior has had such a lengthy skein of bad luck at the National.

"Why do I always have to hold the skein?"

Skein just might turn out to be my fiftieth book to see print.