Plied

Originally uploaded by cavalaxis. 50/50 baby camel/merino blend, plied from a center pull ball on my Majacraft Little Gem II. ❋ Cavalaxis (2006)

The creature's long, notched sword plied air with a swift surety that Conan took diligent care to avoid; and yet the vacancies of the shriveled leathern bindings at the strange warrior's elbows and ankles did not appear to contain any form, not even bones. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)

A standard two-seat hopper, such as plied the time lanes in untold thousands, had materialized, and instantly erupted. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

If you traveled westward till you had crossed the Roman holding called Gaul, you would come to the World Sea of which you had heard fables, and if there you took ship - but craft such as plied the rivers were not big enough - and sailed on and on, you would find the home of the wise and wealthy Mayas .... ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

A millionaire farmer was 'plied' with alcohol and sleeping tablets by his daughters before they forced him to sign a will leaving them hundreds of thousands of pounds, the High Court heard today. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his witness statement, Mr Key said that his sisters 'plied' their father with sleeping tablets and alcohol, leaving him 'confused and disinhibited' before he signed the will. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Prostitutes plied their trade free of legal or moral proscriptions. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The quartet, dressed as slaves, sang songs and told jokes in black dialect and did their best to perform the dances that Emmett had seen on the streets of Cincinnati, on Kentucky plantations, and on the steamboats that plied the Ohio River. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

"Then I bet your mother will miss you plenty while you're gone," she plied. ❋ Warren Smith (2011)

This could be just a gilded tour of gilded domes but bartender Sergei Arlof (ph), who's plied this river more times than he can count, says it also raises uncomfortable questions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even more than that, however, the key to its longevity may well lie in how it plied the metaphorical underpinnings of that question to maximum effect, with Clark's journey from farmboy to journalist to superhero -- and all the false starts encompassed therein -- playing in parallel to the same struggles all of us go through as we make that uneasy transition from adolescence to adulthood. ❋ Zaki Hasan (2011)

Two days later, as the steamer Mariposa plied her customary route between Tahiti and San Francisco, the passengers ceased playing deck quoits, abandoned their card games in the smoker, their novels and deck chairs, and crowded the rail to stare at the small boat that skimmed to them across the sea before a light following breeze. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From one of these, a scow-schooner captain who plied up and down the bay and the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, Daughtry had the promise of being engaged as cook and sailor on the schooner Howard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While this was being done, the boat plied back and forth between the two vessels, passing a heavy hawser, which was made fast to the great towing-bitts on the schooner's forecastle-head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the sun blazed crimson and gold on the western horizon and shadows lengthened, the orange tractor plied back and forth along rows of pale cornstalks. ❋ Stephanie Woodard (2011)