Still, with a gravity that did not seem impaired by these details, he stood clutching his plate anxiously with both hands, while down upon the corn-mush descended a slender golden thread, manipulated with a fine skill to make the most of its sweetness.

A dozen times he would have left the room, but a silken thread held him back, the thought of Lou.

Still, with a gravity that did not seem impaired by these details, he stood clutching his plate anxiously with both hands, while down upon the corn-mush descended a slender golden thread, manipulated with a fine skill to make the most of its sweetness.

And the silver thread of the rivulet Tangled and knotted with fern and sedge.

He knew that their lives hung by a thread, and a thin thread at that.

The trousers, which this simple brace supported, were patched overalls, frayed to loose threads halfway down the calf where they were met by the tops of immense cowhide boots.

The Brahmin can be told by his sacred thread worn round the neck over the shoulder.

But even they can get sparks from flint, make a little thread from wool, invent looms and weave enough to get the ideas.

A voice, high-pitched, echoed to me across the water, reaching my ears a mere thread of sound, the words indistinguishable.

Presently, when my heart is less sore, I desire that we should meet in friendship, but till then I need a little solitude to mend broken threads.

Fasten it in, by means of a needle and coarse thread; tie the heart up in paper, and set it before a good fire, being very particular to keep it well basted, or it will eat dry, there being very little of its own fat.

The little Pilgrim was glad to be by the side of a woman after talking with so many men, and she put out her hand and touched the cloak that this lady wore, and which was white and of the most beautiful texture, with gold threads woven in it, or something that looked like gold.

It was a farrago of nonsense, part of his own inventing, part (as it seemed) wild and confused reminiscences of the published speeches of the man he aped, all strung together on some invisible thread of insane reasoning, delivered with a mad vehemence and intensity that shook and seemed to rend his feeble frame.

In one of the most extensive pools, too deep for these birds, a couple of men had spread a sort of net, not unlike those used on Earth, but formed of twisted metal threads with very narrow meshes, enclosing the whole pool, a space of perhaps some 400 square yards.

I thought it nice ladylike work to manage such slight threads and turn such delicate screws; but fine as are the hairs of one's head, I shall seek something finer, for I can see how clumsy they will appear when I get on the eyepiece and magnify their imperfections.

One of the tiny threads of which many parts of the body are composed.

In the afternoon a double thread was tried, and this acted successfully.

Quickly the young woman slips the beads on the silvery sinew thread, and works them into the pretty flower design.

Indeed I had not a dry thread about me.

Sene was a little dizzy that morning,the constant palpitation of the floors always made her dizzy after a wakeful night,and so her colored cotton threads danced out of place, and troubled her.

The waxed thread fills the hole better too, and what is of as much consequence as anything, it sticks so that the last stitch doesn't slacken before the next comes, but holds so tight that, although the leather is very springy, it cannot make it slip.

After all, we live a very little time, the future is not ours, we hold the present but by a brittle thread; it is the past that is in our hearts.

" "Better have a scarlet thread run through the dull gray pattern of life, even if it makes the gray all the duller," said Miss Hastings, who worked in oils.

But the general acceptation of the word shuttle, as indicating those devices that pass bodily through the loop of upper thread, is, I venture to think, sufficiently correct.

Children under eight cannot really produce fire from flints or rubbing sticks, nor can they make useable woollen threads with which to do much weaving.