In the next few minutes Skag missed nothing, though his surface faculties were merely winding spools, compared to the activity of a great machine within.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
I am tired;" but she put away with her usual neatness her work, and her spools of thread, her thimble and her scissors.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Hradzka glanced back over his shoulder at the cases of books, record-spools, tri-dimensional pictures, and scale-models.
"Flight From Tomorrow"
Henry Beam Piper