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Example sentences for "packthread"

Lexicographically close words:
packman; packmen; packs; packsaddle; packt; pacos; pacquet; pacquets; pact; pacta
  1. Butter and sprinkle your fat with salt; lay a sheet of paper over it; roll a thin sheet of paste and again another sheet of paper over the paste, and with a packthread tie and spit it.

  2. Tie it neatly up with packthread across and across, put the top undermost, and place it in an earthen pan.

  3. Put in a glass of red wine, give it a boil, and take it up; lay it in a dish, and strain the gravy over it, untying the packthread first.

  4. With regard to the cost of cartridges in France, it appears, that a pound of packthread costs twelve sous, and workmen receive from fifteen to twenty sous per thousand for their labour.

  5. I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.

  6. The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.

  7. When "Miss Custis" was but four years old George Washington ordered for her from England packthread stays, stiffened coats, a large number of gloves and masks.

  8. The packthread stays and stiffened coats of "little Miss Custis" were made still more unyielding by metal and wood busks; the latter made of close-grained heavy wood.

  9. The hives are fastened to each other by laths placed on a thin packcloth, which is drawn up on each side and tied with packthread several times round their tops.

  10. The one who returned is described as an "explorer of uncommon courage," who managed to get back by the help of a clue of packthread which he took with him, and was thus able to retrace his steps.

  11. Then he made his way back to daylight by the aid of the clue of packthread as quickly as possible, and we are told that no one has ventured down there since.

  12. Cover the backs of the rabbits with the sliced pork, binding it in place with packthread wound around and around the bodies.

  13. Transfer to a hot flat dish; clip the packthread and gently withdraw it, not to injure the shape of the rolled meat.

  14. Fill them with the above mixture, and secure the ends by tying them with packthread or fine twine.

  15. Fill your mangoes with this mixture, putting a small clove of garlic into each, and replacing the pieces at the openings; tie them with a packthread crossing backwards and forwards round the mango.

  16. Cover the fat with sheets of paper two double, buttered, and tied on with packthread that has been soaked to keep it from burning.

  17. One begged Mary to let her plat some packthread for the soles; another helped Peggy and Anne to baste in the linings; and all who could get employment were pleased, for the idle ones were shoved out of the way.

  18. Maurice saw that, if the captain took one more step forward, he must pull the string, so that it would throw down the jar, round the bottom of which the packthread was entangled.

  19. Maurice, who was kneeling on the floor, picking up his seeds, saw that the captain's foot was entangled in some packthread which hung down from the shelf on which the china jar stood.

  20. Her brother advised her to try platted packthread instead of hemp for the soles; and she found that this looked more neat than the hemp soles, and was likely to last longer.

  21. She platted the packthread together in strands of about half an inch thick, and these were served firmly together at the bottom of the shoe.

  22. The man stood still, looked, and saw how the packthread had caught in his shoe buckle, and how it was near dragging down his beautiful china jar.

  23. She platted the packthread together in strands of about half an inch thick, and these were sewed firmly together at the bottom of the shoe.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packthread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.