...I will put a thread to the reed; tie the answer to it, and if thouhast no one to write for thee in Arabic, tell it to me by signs, for LelaMarien will make me understand thee...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
... Lacour was about to take up the thread of his discourse about his glorious forefather in the convention when something interfered...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...“Pray heaven that the thread may not snap,” he repeated, with hisenigmatic smile...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...His face was aquiline and swarthy, his eyes full and dark, his mouth firm and his clubbed hair was of a lustrous black with here and there a thread of silver showing...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...“Yes,” said he, taking up again the thread of his thoughts, which had been broken by the whimsical conversation in which we have just permitted our readers to participate...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...A restless cat can no more remain the same place than a silk thread wafted idly to and fro with every breath of air...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... Afterwards we go and thread blue beads, and make a string for our neck; and we go and stand before the glass...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...The old black hat had a piece of unhemmed muslin twisted round it, and on his elbow was a large patch so fixed on with yellow thread that her heart ached...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...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」
...It was in the old time, and men have got now thread on spools fromthe white man, for the white man is a great spider; but this is howthe black man learnt to make cloth...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...As an especial mark of favour the prince introduced him to his fifty wives, who were found industriously employed in preparing cotton, making thread, and weaving it into cloth...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...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]」
...On examining them, we found that they were made from the fibre of the pine apple plant and that of other trees twisted into thick thread...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...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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