Drawing In

Again Nalasu waited, until the rustlings of a fresh drawing-in of the circle could be heard, whereupon Nalasu, Jerry accompanying him, picked up all his arrows and moved soundlessly half-way around the circle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the afternoon ran on without incident until the bluish drawing-in of dusk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This disagreement in print is not especially surprising: published attacks on published works, public rebuttals and the drawing-in of others occur in all genres of eighteenth-century writing. reference Nor was this the only attack, real or imagined, which involved Watin. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He was liked and he liked being liked; he had, in fact, a habit of existence eminently unsuited to the drawing-in of horns. ❋ Unknown (2004)

All it did give me, in its majestic proportions, and its undignified death, was an interval of respite, of nerve-calming patience, a deep breath-taking perception of life passing, a drawing-in of the faith and industry that had designed and built here four hundred years earlier. ❋ Francis, Dick (1993)

The looming of warps involves the hanging of the healds vertically in a drawing-in frame. ❋ Unknown (1983)

Talking about your mother doing the drawing-in at home, they must have been real hard up to find workers if they had ... ❋ Unknown (1980)

Meggie was lying on the bed, wide-eyed and giving no indication of pain except for an occasional spasm of her hands, a drawing-in of her body. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

In sheer delight Travis kept slipping to the drawing-in room door to watch her work. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

If the Earth grew from a small nucleus to its present size by the extremely gradual drawing-in of innumerable small masses in its neighborhood, the process would always be slow; much slower at first when the small nucleus had low gravitating powers, more rapid when the body was of good size and the store of materials to draw upon plentiful, and gradually slower and slower as the supply of building materials was depleted. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

These form the simplest and most common method of drawing-in. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

Here we must specify the number of dents that contain the same number of ends, and whether the latter are single or double, also the number of shafts and the method of drawing-in. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

This division of drawing-in drafts is used extensively in silk manufacturing; for instance, in all fabrics having a ground warp and a binder warp, also in double-face goods, or where two different weaves are combined in one effect. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

Be it mentioned that the drawing-in draft and the chain draft will be added throughout this work, the former over the weave to correspond with the respective warp-threads, the latter to the right of the drawing-in draft. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

Fig. 16 is a taffeta on 4 shafts straight draw, the draft executed in the manner which we have already mentioned in explaining the drawing-in drafts. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

The drawing-in draft illustrated in Fig. 6 is a slight variation of the regular point draw; it consists, as will be seen, of a draw from back to front, and also a full one from front to back, there by causing a _double point_. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

The drawing-in drafts which we have described under the head of "Point draws," are used mostly to obtain the various pointed and zigzag effects. ❋ Arnold Wolfensberger (N/A)

Then she added quick, with a funny little drawing-in of her breath, that she should let Marie go, though, with her Aunt Hattie. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Then, with a queer, quick drawing-in of his breath, he said: ❋ Unknown (1920)

"[Pick] [yo] draws up off the flo'!" ❋ B-Man (2004)

Let's [pick up] [a draw] ❋ Theorie (2003)

1. The drawings of [Leonardo Da Vinci] are amazing. 2. He was [drawing] [a bridge]. ❋ AllyourbasearebelongtoMicrosoft (2008)

Person A: [What are you doing]? Me: I'm [drawing], [eff off]! ❋ Randompersynne (2019)

[Kain]: [Guess how much] they make a year? Tyler: Probably about 150k Kain: Damn, [you get that] on draw? ❋ Blizzardriga (2019)

The match between [the Idiots] and the [Morons] ended in [a draw]. ❋ KerriAce (2009)

[Sappnin] spa [comin down] [da port], toke some draw? ❋ Meafman (2004)

Everyone in the art class did their own drawings. [Kelly's] was amazing, but [Charles] should drop [the class]. ❋ TheAmazingPurplePants (2010)

On [three], [try and] draw. Just [try]. ❋ GoodfellaSnoop (2005)

man after we [went] [ultimate] drawing he never found his [forks] again ❋ Dick Hart (2010)