To the edge that sticks out I sew on the sole, drawing my threads so tight that when I pare the edges off smooth, it will look like one piece, and puzzle anybody who did not know how it was done.

Boil all these ingredients together to the consistency of paste; spread the composition thickly over the damaged part, and if the threads be not actually consumed, after it has been allowed to dry on, and the place has subsequently been washed once or twice, every trace of scorching will disappear.

Fill every shape That rises to my dream or wakes to vision; And touch the threads of every mental nerve, With all thy sacred feelings!

As the light fell over the face of one I thought I never saw anything so exquisite as to coloring: the hair was shining like threads of gold; the eyes were the azure you see in the sky; lips and cheeks were tinted; the complexion I never saw excelled for dazzling fairness,we see it in a child's face, sometimes.

As soon as anything presses against the cells they shoot out their threads.

Thus the tips of many poisoned threads enter the skin of any soft animal which is unlucky enough to touch an Anemone.

They are made quite helpless when caught by hundreds of these strange threads.

We shall find similar poison-threads in the Jelly-fish; and these, in some cases, can cause us serious illness.

They are best seen in their proper home, buoyed up by the water, and spreading out their broad coloured fronds, or long waving threads.

In the sea the Jelly-fish looks like an umbrella of bluish-white jelly, from which hang tassels and threads.

From the edge of the "umbrella" there hangs a fringe of long, delicate hairs, rather like spiders' threads.

Down each one of these threads there are minute cells, hundreds and hundreds to every thread; and in each cell there is a dart, coiled up like the spring of a watch.

As it swims along, the threads touch the tiny living things in the sea, the darts pierce them and poison them.

Remember that the threads are very long; after you have passed the main body of the animal, you may still be in danger from the trailing threads.

Remember that the threads are very long; after you have passed the main body of the animal, you may still be in danger from the trailing threads.

He uses a bunch of threads, like so many cables or tiny ropes.

It is interesting to know how these threads are made.

Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.

This liquid hardens in the water so that it can be pulled out into long, fine threads.

Our ordinary Mussels do not make very long threads, but those of some kinds are so long that they can be woven into silky purses or stockings.

The Mussel which makes such long anchor-threads might be called "the silkworm of the sea.

He would not own that he killed Miss Bamberger himself with the rusty little knife that had a few red silk threads sticking to the handle.

Long sprays of Scotch laburnum mingled their golden bells with the dark tresses of Eulalia and Rosen Blumen; a cluster of golden wheat mixed its shining threads with Flora's black curls; and a long, soft feather, like "the raven down of darkness," dusted with gold, drooped over the edge of Mrs. King's riding-cap, fastened to its band by a golden star.

Chloe added her quota of socks, often elephantine in shape, and sometimes oddly decorated with red tops and toes; but with a blessing for "the boys in blue" running through all the threads.

They consisted of two metal disks, suspended by silk threads from the ends of a fern stem.