He is a worthy and substantial manufacturer, who, having accumulated a large fortune by dint of steam-engines and spinning-Jennies, has retired from business, and set up for a country gentleman.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
"A line of spinning Jennies, or a regiment of soldiers dressed exactly alike and going through precisely the same evolutions, gives us no idea of independent existence: we must see them act out of concert before we can believe them to have independent wills and properties not impressed on them from without.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
About sixteen years after my first visit to this spot, I saw it again, and it was covered with stone and brick houses; and one portion of it was occupied by a large manufactory, five or six stories high, with steam-engines, spinning-Jennies, and all the machinery for working up the wool of the country into every description of clothing.
"Roughing it in the Bush"
Susanna Moodie