The beguiling aria "Come per me sereno" conveys Amina's contentment in fine-spun phrases.
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In many ways, the fine-spun combination of Andrew's score and Kelly's vision for the soundtrack is exactly what reminds you that these deep, furious feelings aren't unique or exclusive.
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Old and Decker Mills standing above the canal. Doubling Mill is also visible to the rear. After migrating from Scotland in the 1780s, the Murrays established themselves as manufacturers of textile machinery before moving into spinning fine yarn. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the main market for Murrays' fine spun yarn was the muslin-weaving industry in Scotland; along with McConnel & Kennedy, A & G Murray dominated the Scottish market.Miller and Wild (2007), p. 68–9.
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Seeking poetical inspiration, Anne spends her time alone on Victoria Island (significantly named after the queen-empress whose empire stretched around the world), Anne withdraws into her own world of fantasies amid a landscape "curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and water".Waterson, Elizabeth Magic Island, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 page 74. At the beginning of the novel, Anne and Gilbert, looking forward to a "splendid four years at Redmond" wander around to the Haunted Wood, to taste the "delicious apples" where "under tawny skin was white, white flesh, faintly veined with red; and besides their own proper apple taste, they had a certain wild, delightful tang".Waterson, Elizabeth Magic Island, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 page 70.
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The ancient wild-olive at Olympia, from which the victors' wreaths were made, had an aition, or origin myth, that was preserved in the local tradition, though the testament to it that has survived in a fragment is a late one, of the poet Phlegon of Tralles, who wrote in the second century CE. It appears that in the first five Olympiads no victor received a wreath, but before the sixth meeting for the games, the Eleans, who were hosts at that time, sent their king Iphitos to Delphi to ask of Apollo whether wreaths might be awarded. The reply came back: > Iphitos, make not the fruit of an apple the prize of thy contest;The apple > was the prize in the foot-race of Atalanta. > but on the victor's head set a fruitful wreath of wild-olive, > Even the tree now girt with the fine-spun webs of a spider.
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""In Strange Company", The Telegraph, 12 October 1895, p7 Continuing that approach, a reviewer in The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) found some worth in the book: "In Strange Company is a rattling story of adventure, in the course of which the reader is carried from the Isle of Wight to London, thence to the Argentine Republic, from there to Chili, then to Tahiti, Thursday Island; Batavia, and back to London where the tale finishes. Mr. Boothby tells his story vividly and stirringly, and if he fills it with incredible incidents he does not annoy the reader by fine-spun attempts to give an air of strict truth and literal accuracy to every turn of his narrative. Neither does he weary him with long descriptions of scenery. The beauty of the southern seas has evidently touched Mr. Boothby closely, and at times he gives a distinct impression of the islands of the Pacific in a few crisp sentences.
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