...Just’s chances hang on a thread ...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... It was, therefore, as much in amazement as in relief that at a few minutes after ten they saw him enter, calm, composed, and bland, and thread his way to his seat...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...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」
...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」
...But here a question arises, which, will interrupt the thread of the narration for a little time, viz...
Thomas Clarkson 「An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African」
...The river is like an entangled skein of thread, and the voyage is tedious and melancholy beyond description...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...On reaching the extremity of the valley we had to thread our way through the difficult pass...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...--Superior Manufactureof Gold Thread made at Fas, as well as Imitationsof Amber...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of 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」
...[We see that the thread by which he still draws back a lingering word ortwo from Stanley has not parted yet...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
... The next traveller that deserves notice is the unfortunate Douville, through whose tissue of imposture runs a golden thread of truth...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 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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