1.   An elderly man or woman, mind still sharp, spins tales of a time so different than now.

2.   Andric, whose prose is both eloquent and vernacular, spins out tales like a busy weaver.

3.   As the hairdressers snipped and trimmed, they spun tales, life stories that inevitably came to irony and the ugliness of drug addiction.

4.   Auriemma, who sometimes spins tales, said he had hoped Georgia would catch up so his team would remember to play defense.

5.   Baseball is its own storyteller, spinning delicious tales as it unfolds, revealing plot twists not even the authors knew were coming.

6.   Adventurous trekkers, who travel right out there on the edge, spin true tales that not only transport readers to unfamiliar places.

7.   Crazy women spin fantastical tales or blurt out cryptic non sequiturs.

8.   Edmund Morris knew he would be laughed out of town if he tried to spin tales of cherry trees, so he makes a more post-modern attempt at spinning.

9.   He has heard members spin dark tales of conspiracies by federal government agencies, and he has found evidence that a peculiar religious rhetoric gets used to justify bigotry.

10.   He spun tales of strange creatures like the alleged ice worm, said to be an edible invertebrate that burrows tunnels in glaciers and ice fields.