Now the waking workers were swapping yarns and playing poker for pennies.

They whiled away not hours, but lives, with long gossiping, and told old stories, and swapped old yarns out of other generations.

They walked on swapping yarns about their families, sharing the confidences of their private lives.

Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping yarns'.

They did so, and remained there all day, swapping yarns, sipping beer, and lunching, going back to the hotel that night.

"I imagine, though," Flandry prompted, "from time to time when space explorers got together, as it might be in a tavern, you'd swap yarns?"

Sometimes other old fishermen and sailors were there swapping yarns.

Nix-O was a place to swap yarns.

It would be good to swap yarns with Halice now that the danger was safely past.

Where I've been riding, hands swap yarns and tobacco when they meet on the open range, but these hombres had chips on their shoulders.