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  • Lining each of the palms was a mirror—made of spun-glass threading.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Most individuals are affected early in childhood and the hair takes on a spun-glass appearance with the hair becoming dry, curly, glossy, lighter in color, and progressively uncombable.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Snow lashed his spun-glass angel hair around like a white Persian cat-o-nine-tails and ended the song with long, wailing banshee of a guitar chord.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Snow lashed his spun-glass angel hair around like a white Persian cat-o-nine-tails and ended the song with long, wailing banshee of a guitar chord.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Snow lashed his spun-glass angel hair around like a white Persian cat-o-nine-tails and ended the song with long, wailing banshee of a guitar chord.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • She brought in her collection of spun-glass ornaments and showed some slides of the glassblowers at work.

    Semiprecious D. Anne Love 2006

  • The observation has obvious relevance to that particular drama, which famously features, as one of its symbols, a collection of delicate spun-glass animals owned by one of its soon-to-be emotionally broken characters.

    Victims on Broadway Mendelsohn, Daniel 2005

  • He gave another stupendous heave and Neville's robes tore all along the left seam - the small spun-glass ball dropped from his pocket and, before either of them could catch it, one of Neville's floundering feet kicked it: it flew some ten feet to their right and smashed on the step beneath them.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • The Death Eaters wanted this dusty spun-glass sphere.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • Some of the decorations that Daddy had bought years ago: a bird with a wonderful spun-glass tail, baubles that looked as though they were covered in frost, others with dimpled sides sparkling with colour.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

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