"A tale once spun has a life of its own."

The drama unfolding on the witness stand in Houston includes all the elements of tragedy, with tales spun of spousal lies, family betrayals and shattered friendships.

She was inclined to dismiss her story as a tale spun to placate the fleet's crew and buy herself the time required to make her escape.

He's a writer, spins a good tale.

The Justice Society, considered the comics' first superhero team, was founded in 1940, and its tales spin out closer to real time, with heroes who age, retire, even die.

Gorgeous old tales spun through her memory.

"What people perceive that summer to be is for me a tale of fiction spun way out of control," she said.

No spoken tale spins well without a listener - in this case, an extremely patient police sergeant who has come to Catherine's home to investigate a murder.

The book's focus is on the various ways violent experiences can be articulated: violent threats, acts, memories, suggestions, relationships, games, and other situations dominate the tales spun in Toy Guns.

And that it was not just merely a fantastical tale of imaginary wonders spun to amuse a small boy?