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Sentences starting with thread

Thread for ear-rings, Sir, in the ears of a Giustiniani! [10]

Sentences ending with thread

She saw a woman, in the space of an instant, mend a broken thread. [9]
Two maids were turning up the hem and hurriedly biting off the ends of thread. [2]
Alison took up the thread. [9]
She was bending over her knitting and had broken her thread. [9]
Therefore, say to my Lords and Commons that I am more concerned for what shall chance to England when I am gone than to linger out my living thread. [11]
He held a long string in one hand, which he drew through the other band incessantly, as he spoke, just as a shoe maker performs the motion of waxing his thread. [6]
He was insignificant in size, and his rope seemed only a thread. [5]
She laid it in his hand-a long brown silken thread. [11]
The elder Bliss has heart disease badly, and thenceforth his life hangs upon a thread. [5]
Yes, the shop furnishes the thread. [4]

Sentences containing thread two or more times

A man imagines a silk thread, imagines a machine to make it, imagines a picture, then by weeks of labor embroiders it on canvas with the thread. [5]

More example sentences with the word thread in them

Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
It was closed with a silken thread, and the seal with which Epagathos had replaced the one they had broken. [10]
I saw what was the matter; he had lost the thread of his talk. [6]
The thread was twined; its parting meshes through From hand to hand her restless shuttle flew, Till the full web was wound upon the beam, Love's curious toil,--a vest without a seam! [6]
It was difficult to thread the needle. [10]
Our old acquaintance, Time, drops in, And while the running sands Their golden thread unheeded spin, He warms his frozen hands. [6]
Hand in hand, thrice beatified, Lo we thread the rhythmic, fanciful, Mystical mazes! [10]
There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. [6]
He resumed the thread of his gossip-- "Sir Hugh goeth to the coronation--and with grand hopes. [5]
How strong this thread has proved is shown by the action of those of Dutch blood in the Dominion during the present war. [9]
Hadn't skeins of thread enough to represent them all--but you get an idea--perfect trestle-work of bridges for seventy two miles: Jeff Thompson and I fixed all that, you know; he's to get the contracts and I'm to put them through on the divide. [5]
I felt every thread and knot burning into my soul, and could not cast it off nor even defend myself. [10]
She turned it thoughtfully, but the thread broke, and her hands fell into her lap. [10]
She has made those estates run like a spool of thread, and she will do the same here with Salem. [11]
And this opinion, this hint, was to Katharina like a distaff from which she spun a lengthening thread to warp to the loom and weave from it a tangible tissue. [10]
At last the thinner thread of sound is heard by itself, and its deep accompaniment rolls out its thunder no more. [6]
He forbore from thinking, now, of the looming events which might thrust them apart,--put a physical distance between them,--his anxiety was concerned with the possible snapping of the thread of sympathy which had bound them. [9]
Then taking up the thread of the, discourse when it was ended, he began himself to speak. [10]
Soon after, in the shade of the trees, she broke in upon the thread of their casual conversation. [11]
He examined all the papers in detail, and whenever there seemed anything like a hitch, either in the papers or my statement, he would go back and take up the thread and follow it patiently out to an intelligent and satisfactory result. [5]
I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be interested --and I was, too--and says: "Three hundred dollars is a power of money. [5]
He said that that little thread had silver in it, mixed with base metal, such as lead and antimony, and other rubbish, and that there was a speck or two of gold visible. [5]
From her left temple a large tress, plaited with gold thread, hung down to her waist, the sign of her royal birth. [10]
Yet, whatever thy task, thou art even as one who twists the thread and throws the shuttle, weaving the web of Life. [11]
But I will take up the thread of the story where you dropped it, and reel it out. [11]
On every hand she was engaged in a game of dissimulation, made the more dangerous by the thread of sincerity and desire running through it all. [11]
Mrs. Pomfret, when she saw the direction which he was taking, lost the thread of her conversation, and the lady who was visiting her wore a significant expression. [9]
And now the secrets of this life hanging on a thread must surely come out. [6]
I followed its receding thread out into the distance--not a horseman on it, or sign of one. [5]
But now there ran through his reading a thread of something not of himself or of it. [11]
Would she not presently disappear, leaving only in his life the scarlet thread which she had woven into it for all time? [9]
Meanwhile, as they passed up the street, the droning, vibrating voice of the bear-leader came floating along the air and through the voices of the crowd like the thread of motive in the movement of an opera. [11]
At one spot on this shore rises a vast mass of detached rock, separated at low tide from the shore by irregular bowlders and a tiny thread of water. [4]
Well, there goes old widow Hopkins--it always takes her a week to buy a spool of thread and trade a hank of yarn. [5]
Come to think of it, she too had been working in the "power-house" and had been mangled also; for she was but a thread of what she was then, but a wisp of golden straw to the sheaf of the then young golden wheat. [11]
The weak thread of his patience broke, and in a fearful passion he commanded the guards to behead me at once. [10]
It is that of a lawyer who could never make an argument without having a piece of thread to work upon with his fingers while he was pleading. [6]
He did as men have always done, and probably always will do, to the end of time--held the needle still, and tried to thrust the thread through the eye, which is the opposite of a woman's way. [5]
There was a marvellous arrangement in the walls with which Edith was never tired of playing, a circular plate covered with legends of every conceivable want, from a newspaper to a needle and thread and a Scotch whiskey highball. [9]
The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost. [5]
Then comes a long interval, and this thread marks out Johnson's life, during which the tree increased from twenty-two to twenty-nine inches in diameter. [6]
As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising. [6]
If, as the Italian physician more than hinted, his life hung by a thread, did it matter whether the barbarian came to Cairo? [11]
The shock of it snapped the filmy thread of being. [11]
Every thread of it had been delicately and firmly knitted, till it was like perfect soft blue cloth, relieved by a little red silk ribbon at the collar. [11]
Some one stole it from him one day, and he could not get on at all with his speech,--he had lost the thread of his discourse, as the story had it. [6]
What is past is done for, and when Atropos cuts our thread some one else will stand in our place and joys will begin all over again. [10]
True to the instinct which had kept him faithful to one idea for sixteen years, and in spite of the protests of Mattingley and Carterette--of the despairing Carterette who felt the last thread of her hopes snap with his going--Ranulph made ready to leave them. [11]
Did he loaf in the coffee-houses, and spin the fine thread of his adventures to the idlers and gallants who resorted to them? [4]
They were right in concealing from you by how slender a thread, spite of the power of your example in mathematics, the sword hangs above your head. [10]
It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, but went on turning uselessly in the same place. [2]
Well after that his life hung by a thread for as much as ten days, and the minute he was out of danger Emmeline and me just went to bed sick and worn out. [5]
The two regarded her with the detached air of men whose thread of thought has been broken. [9]
It is so healing to the spirit; and it bears up the thread of one's imaginings as the accompaniment bears up a song. [5]
A single indiscretion, he had declared, might swiftly and suddenly cut the thread of his existence. [10]
But one thing he did to me, one thing which broke the last thread of a tie between us. [10]
Now shall I have the demon's own time to thread it! [5]
Yours was a hand that talked as much as your lips or face, as honest and white; and the palm all pink, and strong as strong could be, and warmin' every thread in a man's body when he touched it. [11]
Abruptly, as she gazed, one of the machines halted, a weaver hurried up, searched the warp for the broken thread, tied it, and started the loom again. [9]
I have never forgotten those performances, and laugh now when I think of the knight who shouted to his servant Kasperle, "Fear my thread! [10]
The Egyptian shuddered, for this imperial nod showed him by how slender a thread his life hung. [10]
Then the white folks had to stay indoors, for every street was so packed with charging cavaliers and cavalieresses that it was next to impossible to thread one's way through the cavalcades without getting crippled. [5]
Or, a better figure, the Fates weaving the web in that mystic chamber, Number Seven, pausing now and again to smile as a new thread is put in. [9]
The gleams of festal splendor seemed interwoven with the laborious bustle on the quay like scraps of gold thread in a dull work-a-day garment. [10]
There was also"--her eyes almost closed, and the needle and thread she held lay still in her lap--"when two of your brothers were killed in the drive of the buffalo. [11]
The cruelty was evident to him as she bit in two the thread for the waistcoat she was mending, and then plied her needle again. [11]
Millions of wild ducks and sea-gulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides. [5]
She wore a dress of a filmy material, mauve, with a design in gold thread running through it. [9]
She this day displayed some strange appendage in the lobes of her ears, which on closer examination I found to be a twist of thread. [10]
We have had dark days in England, privy conspiracy and rebellion; and I have had to thread my way through dreadful courses by a thousand blind paths. [11]
The rock was clean and white, where it was broken, and across it ran a ragged thread of blue. [5]
Now the present case, as the doctor sees it, is just exactly such a collection of paltry individual facts as never was before,--a snarl and tangle of special conditions which it is his business to wind as much thread out of as he can. [6]
The globe-girdling belt called the doldrums is 20 degrees wide, and the thread called the equator lies along the middle of it. [5]
Would thread were bread, seeing one getteth a year's sufficiency for a farthing, and such a brave big needle without cost, for mere love. [5]
Then came the Blubbers and the roving frames, twisting and winding, the while maintaining the most delicate of tensions lest the rope break, running the strands together into a thread constantly growing stronger and finer, until it was ready for spinning. [9]
But this had been mere gossip, and after twenty-five years she came back to Pontiac, a half-mad creature, and took up the thread of her life alone; and Parpon and the Cure saw that she suffered nothing in the hard winters. [11]
Once she was beautiful and tall and straight as a bamboo stem, but now she is in body no more than a piece of silken thread. [11]
On the left bank of the stream an encampment of Egyptian soldiers formed a large semicircle, enclosing three large tents made of costly material striped with blue and white, and woven with gold thread. [10]
I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. [5]
The Waterbury, broken and dirty, finds its way to the trader, who gives a trifle for it; or the inside is taken out, the wheels strung on a thread and hung round the neck. [5]
But it was all pleasant to hear, even when, at times, there ran a weird, dark thread through the woof. [11]
Only a week ago the Court physician had told him that any violence or mental shock might snap the thread of existence. [11]
Time and time again the thread missed the mark, going sometimes on one side of the needle, sometimes on the other, sometimes doubling up against the shaft; but he was patient, having been through these experiences before, when he was soldiering. [5]
Publius first untied a thread, then unfolded a small piece of white linen, and came at last to an object wrapped in a bit of flimsy, cheap papyrus. [10]
He will "thread a thread through [his] poems," he tells us, "that no one thing in the universe is inferior to another thing. [6]
It was but a tangled skein of life that Motley's book showed us at twenty-five, and older men might well have doubted whether it would ever be wound off in any continuous thread. [6]
Mary, get me a silk thread, and a chunk of fire out of the kitchen. [5]
I could thread a needle nearly as well as the player did whom you saw to-day. [5]
You haven't got a needle and thread I suppose? [12]
The rod is a bamboo, weighing seven ounces, which has to be spliced with a winding of silk thread every time it is used. [4]

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