11.   He spins cheerful yarns about life in Atlanta, where he once lived.

12.   Her mother liked to spin wild yarns, while Murphy liked to live them.

13.   He was also a fabulist of Marquezian proportions, spinning incredible yarns about his days as a student cannibal or a fighter with Emiliano Zapata.

14.   Heyer spins a yarn worthy of Hans Christian Andersen.

15.   Jolly notes from a steam calliope bounce through the chill night air, and a storyteller spins a yarn by the light of a roaring bonfire.

16.   Meanwhile, Bob Bianchi sits in a courtroom spinning yarns.

17.   Miller, who was born in San Antonio, spins a yarn worthy of Pecos Bill.

18.   More importantly, she found her own voice, spinning yarns of rural life that increasingly centered on struggling black survivors like herself.

19.   Oh, the farmers still talk and spin yarns, but mostly through e-mail and Internet chat sessions.

20.   Others held court in the street, spinning yarns about heroism, blood and terror.