Subsequent changes in the threads conclude the division (for a description of which consult the account above).
Immediately before a cell divides the nucleus is resolved into chromatin fibres or threads and an achromatin matrix.
A woman strong with purpose, though burdened with life's care, The silvered tints of starlight matched threads in gold-brown hair.
Unnumbered are the pearls and fair, If burdens of the weary share; And deeply wrought with threads of gold, If smiles of peace suppress our woe.
I look back with mourning, and see that I have accomplished scarcely anything of all I intended to do; that I have lost the threads of this and the threads of that, and also the habit of subtle concentration.
Her eyes were as black as night, her hair like threads of fine silk, her neck like alabaster, and her lips and her cheeks as soft and as red as rose-leaves.
Each of the seven-and-forty was beautiful beyond what the young man could have believed possible, and each was clad in a garment of silk as white as snow, embroidered with threads of silver and studded with glistening diamonds.
Her cheeks were like milk and rose-leaves, and her hair like fine threads of gold.
One of the principal uses of the silk threads is to form nets to catch small insects.
Turning the end of the body upwards they force out a few threads, which, caught by the breeze, are blown away, and so a number of long threads are rapidly drawn out, sufficiently long at last to carry the spider itself with them.
But if the web be examined with a strong magnifying glass, there will be found, among the network, a number of threads bearing little drops of a sticky substance (fig.
These are made by special glands, and differ from the ordinary threads in that they do not dry on being exposed to the air.
The spinning glands of the spider are placed at the tail end of the body, but the threadsspun therefrom, though strong, are of little use for commercial purposes.
The thread that's rolled the reel around, That baby's hands can break, When with it other threads are bound, The strongest rope doth make.
This was to prevent them from being caught in the sticky web, and all the time he was striking deft and rapid blows at the threads that held his friend fast.
The floating threads formed by broods of small spiders are sometimes very numerous, and cover everything: they are especially noticeable in hedges, and are one of the causes of what is called in the country 'Gossamer.
While thethreads are separated take the other heddle and darn it in and out above the first heddle, taking up the lower threads and bringing the heddle over the upper ones as in Fig.
To take the work from the loom, cut the threads between the pins at the top of the loom, and with quick but gentle jerks pull it off the lower row of pins.
The Heddles are for lifting the threads of the warp so that the shuttle may be passed through.
The threads which extend up and down, or from the top to the bottom of the loom, are called the warp.
The tiny maid seems almost to be stepping lightly forward and backward as she spins out long threads of the soft, warm yarn, singing softly all the while a little old-fashioned song.
This will lift the lower threads of the warp above the others and make them the upper ones.
With the notched heddle on edge push the shuttle through the shed--that is, between the upper and lower threads of the warp.
Turn the heddle on edge, the notches up, and slip the threadsof the warp into the notches, one thread in each notch.
Turn here and do not take up the last thread of the warp; pass the shuttle under three threads, turn on the next thread, and bring it back under four threads (C, Fig.
Wait until the paste is quite dry and the paper firmly attached to the shells, then hang the eggs by their threads in a door-way so that they will be just one foot higher than you can reach.
To obtain a true understanding of John Brown, the man, the student of his life must take up the threads of history that lead to the character making incident of May 24th.
Later he gathered up the threads of Brown's life and has woven them, conscientiously, into the web of history.
The heights of Mérix were bathed in the rosy hues of morning; in the sky appeared the first golden threads of the sun; in the plain the slight fragrance of the dew, perfumed breezes, and the warbling of the birds.
My lightning arrows shall Be drawn, and hunger sharp Shall cut the threads of life, And evil birds of prey And fiercest beasts shall lie in wait for thee.
In weaving the woman sits upon the floor and keeps the warp threads stretched by a rope that passes round her back from each extremity of the yarn beam.
By pulling the comb back to the finished part of the fabric, the warp threads are reversed and the last weft thread is securely held in place.
The weaver then inserts the batten between the warp threads at the point where they alternately pass up and down through the previously mentioned loops on the distal side of the comb, and between it and the rod that holds the loops.
The warp threads pass serially around these two pieces of bamboo and between the slits of a primitive comb situated within arm reach of the posterior bamboo internode.
The bow is made of bamboo bent into the form of a defensive bow, to the ends of which are attached several threads of abaká fiber that serve as the bowstring.
The spiders were soon impatient at being pulled back and forth by the distracted movements of the dancers, for the ends of the threads were still in them.
She rounds the headland's bristling pines; She threads the isle-set bay; No spur of breeze can speed her on, Nor ebb of tide delay.
Of threads of palm was the carpet spun Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one!
The dews that washed the dust and soil From off the wings of pleasure, The sky, that flecked the ground of toil With golden threads of leisure.
The bird that trod the mellow layers Of the young earth is sought in vain; The cloud is gone that wove the sandstone, From God's design, with threads of rain!
Spare me, dread angel of reproof, And let the sunshine weave to-day Its gold-threads in the warp and woof Of life so poor and gray.
The wind-harp chooses not the tone That through its trembling threads is blown; The patient organ cannot guess What hand its passive keys shall press.
The threads our hands in blindness spin No self-determined plan weaves in; The shuttle of the unseen powers Works out a pattern not as ours.
From age to age descends unchecked The sad bequest of sire to son, The body's taint, the mind's defect; Through every web of life the dark threads run.
These insects like the perfect quiet that reigns about the instruments of the philosopher, and with heroic perseverance persist in spinning their fine threads among his machines.
The stem, or penduncle, by which the ball is held in the fall and winter, breaks up into a dozen or more threads or strands, that are stronger than those of hemp.
It chooses the longer threads for the outside and finishes the inner side by a closely woven tapestry of silk.
The two are then bound together by a fewthreads of silk from the caterpillar's own body.
How graceful are the spirals that smoothly rise from its oval rim and, gemmed with little stars, wind off into the darkness until they have become as delicate as threads of gossamer!
Many other star rows in the group suggest by their arrangement that they, too, were once strung upon similar threads which have now disappeared, leaving the stars spaced along their ancient tracks.
But closer inspection shows that they are, to a large extent, woven out of innumerable threads of filmy texture, and there are many indications of spiral tendencies.
Threads in single, Threads in double; How they mingle!
It hung upon the manes of the cattle, and decorated, wherever seen, the humble grass, which appeared bending, like threads of crystal.
He looked long and cautiously for supple yellow arms or tiny whip-like threads which might coil suddenly round his legs and drag him to hideous death.
It was a hideous idea, born of over-strain and overmuch groping after non-existent threads in a blind alley.
The first openly help to untangle the situation; the second seem to delay the straightening out of the threads or even to make the tangle worse.
If we now treat a fewthreads of the weft in the same manner, a similar change of color takes place.
Her relief was almost too great, and it was a few minutes before she could collect her thoughts and gather up the scattered threads of her former ambition.
Well, it fitted in with the rest of his dreary destiny; her ultimate fate, which could not be far off, weaved only some darker threads into the grey web of life.
Propeller in which blades are at an angle to the line of axis, similar to the threads of a screw.
I have to pull the threads out and then take up two threads and leave three.
Anna and I were cutting them out and basting them ready for sewing, and grandmother told us to save all the basting threads when we were through with them and tie them and wind them on a spool for use another time.
Your assistant will now bring the sides of the wound together as accurately as possible, and retain them there till you have tied the corresponding ends of the threads in a double knot.
And overhead save for a few sharpshooters upon the roof spaces and for a few bands and threads of vapour that multiplied and darkened towards the evening, the day was a clear serenity.
