...Just’s chances hang on a thread ...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...Tarzan explained to his companions the purpose of his mission butneither could give him any slightest thread of hope to weave into thefabric of his longing...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
...Fielding; but she had lost the thread of the story, and there was a mist between her eyes and the printed pages...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...I have observed bunches of a tape-like thread and short worms of enlarged sizes in the rhinoceros...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...We met in the road natives passing with bundles of cops, or spindles full of cotton thread, and these they were carrying to other parts to be woven into cloth...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...This seems to be of equal strength, for a firm thread of it feels like catgut in the hand, and would rather cut the fingers than break...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Superior Manufactory of Gold Thread...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
... The Dutchman, not understanding what he was saying, kept on the thread of his story, interrupting him without any compunction...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...The shuttle is of the commonconstruction, but as the thread is coarse the chamber is somewhatlarger than the European...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...The Bákele supply sheep and fowls to the Plateau, and their main industry consists in dressing plantain-fibre for thread and nets...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...Please send the thread along as a token and my wife will understand that all is right...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
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