The threads which form the length of the cloth constitute the warp, while the transverse threads are the weft.

Though the intention of the following pages is biographical, the story of Lady Russell's life, after marriage, coincides so closely with her husband's public career that the thread connecting her letters together must be the political events in which he took part.

Consequently, this little thread of a tie between herself and the captain, woven merely of some hypothetical arithmetic, was but a cobweb of a thread.

unstable; And we are all too prone to clutch them fast, Though false, aye, falser than the veriest fable, To which a "thread of gossamer is cable" They cannotcannot last!

The sacred thread is a fine silk cord, fastened over the left shoulder, hanging down under the right arm like a sash.

For the child hath wandered far, the golden thread spun in a mother's heart is an unbroken thread that will draw him home!

The first thread that shearer spun was for a wick to be used in a candle, the only means of light.

"Why!" thought he "cloth is made of thread: so this thread must be cloth!