Then he examined his stepson's throat with a candle and saw the scar where it had been cut from ear to ear, and indeed the place had healed up and it was like a thread stretched out.
Al-Sufúf," either ranks of fighting-men or the rows of thread on a loom.
When a thread breaks, the individual drum stops, thus preventing waste or single.
They can be raised or lowered so as to give, within reasonable limits, any required distance between the Spindle points and Thread Guides.
It was a slender thread, but on that thread still hung her only hope.
I can make it my slave, and carry it along with me, almost in my pocket, on a mere thread of copper.
For a sudden last thought had come to her, a rotten thread of hope, on which swayed and hung her last chance of life.
A little depressed, inwardly, at this first accidental cross-thread of fate, they at once made their way up Fifth Avenue to the Church of the Transfiguration.
For the sounder had suddenly broken out into life once more, and strange and momentous things were flashing in to him over that little thread of steel.
Then suddenly into the depths of his despair swayed and stretched a single slender thread of hope.
Like a black and a scarlet thread running through the whole tapestry of his tragic story are the two parallel "motifs," the passion of the beauty which leads to destruction and the passion of the beauty which leads to life.
I am largely justified in this view of Balzac's work by his own catholic and comprehensive title--The Human Comedy--suggestive certainly of a sort of uniting thread running through the whole mass of his productions.
The screw projected at the stern, and being turned rapidly round by the steam engine, the oblique action of the thread of the screw against the water impelled the vessel forward.
It was found disadvantageous to have an entire convolution of the thread of the screw; for one part of it worked in the wake of the other, and resistance was produced by the backwater.
The thread must be kept always on one side of the needle.
Instead of placing the knot at the point where the thread leaves the ground material, it is placed at a desired distance with the thread laid in a simple stitch on the ground surface.
Work the cross-bar in the four corners in the border in outline stitch with one thread of Corticelli Filo Silk, Brown, 644.
Work the cross-bar in the four corners in border in outline stitch with onethread of Filo in Brown, 644.
Work the cross-bar in outline stitch with onethread of Corticelli Filo Silk, 692.
Care must be taken to knit the top of stockings quite loosely, allowing plenty of slack in the thread especially when changing from silk to yarn and vice versa.
Into this shade work 809, using one thread of Filo Silk, still leaving the indented effect (alternate long and short stitches) on the inside.
A double thread of Filo is best adapted to the work.
Shade into the white one threadof Corticelli Filo Silk, 644.
Work the stems in very fine stem stitch with a thread of Filo Silk, 527, split in two parts.
Work the cross-bar in outline stitch with one thread of Corticelli Filo Silk, 644.
Work the shell scallop in buttonhole stitch, long and short on the inside; work over the white with one thread of Corticelli Filo Silk, Yellow, 503, leaving on the inside a long and short effect.
For single (one thread of) Corticelli Filo Silk use a No.
The difference lies in sending the needle down a little below the point where the thread leaves the ground material at the base of the loop instead of back or within the loop.
Ole Gilbert had a piece of home-made cotton cloth, this we raveled and used for thread with which to patch my pants.
The shutter is tilted up by a pull on the thread T, thus cutting off light from the growing region; release of the thread cuts off light from the tip.
To these gay hose they add nether-socks, curiously knit with open seams down the leg, with quirks and clocks about the ankles, and sometimes interlaced with gold and silver thread as is wonderful to behold.
The shock of it snapped the filmy thread of being.
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.
Only a week ago the Court physician had told him that any violence or mental shock might snap the thread of existence.
Then four grooves are cut right across the threads on the block and similarly on the breech-piece, so that at four different places there is no thread left.
In other words, instead of the thread running round and round continuously, each turn is divided up into four sections with sections of plain unthreaded metal in between.
This worm-gear is simply a wheel with suitable teeth on its edge in conjunction with a screw so made that its thread can engage comfortably with the teeth.
If you look closely you will notice a long silk thread issuing from the head of one of these silk-spinning caterpillars.
Make a list of all the spinning insects you know, and try to explain the use of the "silk" thread in each case.
They were more surprised when they were told that each caterpillar produces a silk thread more than half a mile long.
He took another cocoon, and, having dipped it into warm water, began to wind the silken thread on to a piece of card.
Often its life dangled by a thread for lack of members, or because those members who owed subscriptions were unable or unwilling to pay them.
He is the scarlet threadrunning through its annals.
Often, however, this form of the two-act uses a thread of plot on which to string its business and true two-act points.
Merely a thread of plot holds them together and on it is strung the elemental humor of the comedy bits, which as often as not may be slap-stick.
Then began the descent of a steep rocky hill, the wall of a woody chasm, through whose gloomy depths the shrunken stream of a large Fiumara wound like a thread of silver.
The thread is spun by women with two wooden pins: the loom is worked by both sexes.
Hanging by the twined threadof one doubtful Scripture.
The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lowerthread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
At another time she protested against a discussion that interrupted the delivery of a poem: “Who then doth hold the distaff from whence the thread doth wind?
I perceived that Alumbrado viewed the Duke attentively and began to muse, although he had cut off abruptly the thread of the conversation.
I shall, therefore, continue his mournful tale, till I can connect again the thread of my narration to the remaining papers of the Duke.
And without making any one else lose the thread or grow short-breathed or accuse us passionately of reading ahead, we would, on the slightest provocation, out-Fletcher Fletcher chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy.
Plucking the feather-duster, I tied two White Millers with shoe-thread upon cod-hooks.
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