" This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce.

But Lachesis, her hair adorned, her tresses neatly bound, Pierian laurel on her locks, her brows with garlands crowned, Plucks me from out the snowy wool new threads as white as snow, Which handled with a happy touch change colour as they go, Not common wool, but golden wire; the Sisters wondering gaze, As age by age the pretty thread runs down the golden days.

Indeed, the task performs itself: no toil the spinners know: Down drops the soft and silken thread as round the spindles go; Fewer than these are Tithon's years, not Nestor's life so long.

Gradually, even this thread of light died out; and now, all that was left of our great and glorious sun, was a vast dead disk, rimmed with a thin circle of bronze-red light.

The bridge was described to be no wider than a silken thread; and it said, that all who were not Mahometans would slip on one side of this bridge, and drop into the tremendous gulf that had no bottom.

These thread-papers my wooden sword must be, Nothing more like one I at present see.

The first degree of consistency is called the thread, which is subdivided into the little and great thread.

The first degree of consistency is called the thread, which is subdivided into the little and great thread.

If you dip the finger into the syrup and apply it to the thumb, the tenacity of the syrup will, on separating the finger and thumb, afford a thread, which shortly breaks: this is the little thread.

If the thread, from the greater tenacity, and, consequently, greater strength of the syrup, admits of a greater extension of the finger and thumb, it is called the great thread.

If the thread, from the greater tenacity, and, consequently, greater strength of the syrup, admits of a greater extension of the finger and thumb, it is called the great thread.

Skin the oranges, remove as much of the white pith as possible without injuring the pulp of the fruit; pass a thread through the centre of each orange, dip them into the sugar, and tie them to a stick.

His wooing is plain home spun stuff; there's no outlandish thread in it, no rhetoric.

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

It needs but a slender thread of barrenness to make a mouse trail in the forest of the sod.

All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run.

Bob found Betty's sled, after some search, where they had left it between two trees, and together they began to thread the tortuous maze of the cave again, Bob going ahead and dragging the sled after him.

We shall not attempt to thread the vaulted galleries, the gloomy corridors, and all the apartments, through which the keeper's daughter led her companion.

When most unsteady upon his legs he most asserted his integrity, declaring that not a gill or a thread came into his port without paying its duty, and calling Heaven to witness that it had been his hand that had saved the life of a noble young gentleman.

A few hanks of thread will fix the rips.

It's held in place now by only two little pieces of thread that a child's finger could break.

The trapeze yonderMurdock has cut the ropes, secured the bar with thread, and the slightest touch will send a performer to the ring with broken limbs.

His eyes, cold and clear, now returned to the colored man; he groped for and took up the thread of the talk where he had left it.

"It's but a poor kindness thou dost him to put a thread-paper yoong gentleman like yon against a mon as is a mon.

" 'Petrified by the assurance with which I spoke, and glad to purchase with gold the life which hung on a thread, Martel cried out: "I seeI see it is Heaven's doing, since that which no eye witnessed, save my own, is revealed.