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1. The only part of Jorma that continued that thread of the conversation was his eyebrow, his voice asked, "Do you miss your beach?"
2. The documentary is still going on, though I have completely lost the thread of what they are talking about now
3. thread strained and writhed as the inner plastic of the shop-window mannequin
4. Ricci enters, sporting a fresh change of wardrobe (the guy’s really a clothes horse): This time it’s a palace casual, a brilliant blue thobe trimmed with gold thread
5. sliding down her neck feeling his life hung by a thread
6. Doc Ibora spent the better part of a two days checking out every thread of the Chief's nervous system for damage
7. They had to thread ropes around with paddlers from barge to barge to get them untangled
8. She spun webs of silver thread through the evening air, always making direct eye contact, always drawing him in towards her desperate need for love on this particular night
9. So she picked up the thread of their last conversation about it when he had told her about all they were able to learn from above with sensors and cameras
10. Most African tribes dressed their hair in plaits wrapped in thread, tight to the scalp, either in straight rows (hence the name) or intricate patterns and the ends were secured with thread and/
11. That’s such a common thread of gossip about anyone … and the source of the gossip was known to have a grudge against her
12. the single stranded cotton thread
13. to unpick the knotted thread
14. all loved and dirt and hanging thread mouth
15. whose seams trail thread on the air
16. all the way along the skin of life, the thread of wives,
17. and have wavy lines of thread
18. Berndt had been quiet for a day or so after our conversation – neither of us caring to pick up the thread of that particular subject again
19. Imada looked and pointed at Ava, made the motion of sewing with a needle and thread
20. It was very, very good, if it had been done with a needle and thread
21. interlaced with silver thread, had been tied into a
22. Ken gradually loses patience as Ted begins to lose the thread of stories but continues to take his drink on the strength of the stranger's money
23. With needle and thread, she embroidered a small image onto the widow’s brocade—an image of herself on the palace steps
24. thread, needles, and little cans
25. hanging on by a thread
26. ” he handed over the clamps he was tugging the thread with
27. thread which would lead them to the woman who bore her
28. Daedalus gave her a thread for the hero to tie to the door of the Labyrinth as he entered, and by which he could find his way out after killing the monster
29. "The fabric of the universe is woven together by the thread we call the Singularity
30. By all appearances, it seemed like Emily ignored him, standing gracefully and walking to the front of the class, through his years of training and an overly acute eye for detail, Brice detected a hair thin thread of blue leave her body and work its way toward Tetloan's sandals where it rapidly tied his laces into knots
31. Alec's patience was as precarious as a boulder dwarf dangling from a frayed thread
32. Every blue thread darted in her direction
33. She held little more than a thread, but that thread was enough to turn the cracks into a crevice
34. Her upswept hair was bound with silver thread that Nausicaa’s maids provided
35. mountains I knew that, going on the thread of
36. For just such emergencies, he always stored a good supply of canvas, strong sisal thread, and long, curving mariner’s needles
37. reach a skein of sisal thread Father kept high up on a shelf
38. She tied it back with a thread pulled from the blanket
39. putting together pieces of fabric with thread to create a
40. Now each evening, she wove woolen fabric from thread she’d spun that
41. To see thread in your dream symbolizes your life path and destiny
42. Consider also the color of the thread and look up the significance
43. Gaps in the thread
44. I then got up and went over to my trunk where I searched for and found the sewing tools and thread
45. Each one looked as though he or she were hanging from an invisible thread that suspended them from under their armpits
46. By this time I could picture that crazy scene and was laughing so hard I could barely dip the thread in and out of the yellow liquid we made from pomegranates
47. “That"s the most fantastic thing I"ve ever heard,” I said, as I reached for the last batch of thread we were to dye
48. Others dyed material or thread
49. ,” Jean began, before the former ghost cut her off with, “Seven! Seven times you have broken your oath to me! Six out of seven of those nights you broke more than your oath, you broke the thin thread of trust I laid out for you
50. constant thread of background thought that always ran through his mind as he ate the stuff,
1. Hauling her thoughts away from such matters, Kara looked around the busy high street with interest threaded with a certain amount of caution
2. He produced a threaded flange and affixed it round the hole under the floor with screws, then began twisting the pipe to mate it to the flange
3. twine he had threaded through the setting’s fixing loop
4. With the grass between his toes he made long curling casts at the edge of some lilypads, hoping to entice a lazy fish into biting the threaded bug he used
5. “Drink the rest of it now,” Carl said as he threaded his needle
6. Her golden threaded peplos extended to her ankles
7. " He handed the young badger a small piece of root threaded on a length of twisted grass
8. Finding a length of stout grass he quickly threaded it through the stone and hung it about his neck, where it burrowed itself deeply into his fur– as though it belonged there, as though it had always been there
9. Half an hour later the rope was threaded through the drain and I waited patiently for the signal
10. Marcos made his way over, trying not to jostle too many punters as he threaded his way between the tightly packed tables
11. Having made up his mind, the thief carefully threaded his way through the house to the kitchen
12. silver beads threaded onto the braids
13. feathers of his wings, which fanned out around him, also threaded with stars, like
14. The spear had threaded the gap between the snorkel and his
15. the use of nippling brass or brass threaded
16. male thread insert section into its threaded
17. existing threaded joint and cut with a 24-teeth
18. brass stayed threaded into the wall bound
19. take the section of threaded brass tube and
20. install the threaded bolt pin or pins into the
21. They threaded their way through the crowd of other rain
22. The first ambulances, French bi-tone horns raucously making pam-paw, pam-paw sounds, threaded traffic of bicycles, pedicabs, and blue and yellow taxis to the carnage
23. shrugged his shoulders and threaded one of the ends of the rope
24. of these zones were threaded together with a thin and
25. I threaded my way through the trees, which became higher
26. They threaded the gap between the wagons and went to meet the Englisc
27. The barbs cut into spinal cord and bone as the wire threaded between two vertebrae
28. It was threaded into a piece of my plaid
29. She threaded the opal through where it joined the heart that held her mother’s picture
30. We threaded our way through the underground museum, looking at covered wagons and other junk from the 1800s
31. He then cut the unused socket off the extension lead, bared a long length of the phase wire, threaded it through and around the meat securely, clipped off and isolated the other two wires, plugged the cord into a switched outlet beside the door, and carried the bait outside
32. Dayne went to one side of the altar and threaded his fingers
33. Conan the Cimmerian, restless in his plate-armor, stared at the bedecked camel with no great approval, and spoke to Amalric, who rode beside him, resplendent in chain-mail threaded with gold, golden breastplate and helmet with flowing horsehair crest
34. The two men threaded their way through the maze of tables to the small booth at the rear of the cafe
35. The square head was not only a different head, it was cross threaded
36. Annie gently took his arm and threaded it through hers and guided him across the road back to her home
37. And threaded through the eye of yesterday’s needle
38. a sharp needle and threaded and stitched up the wound
39. On queue the jeeps threaded rubber and they took off in a line
40. She threaded her fingers through his black hair, holding him in place while her probing tongue tangled with his
41. A group of men and women threaded their way out in a line, dressed in smart
42. He threaded the needle between the thick posts all right, and they flew up the ramp OK, right up to the top, but just when it looked like another perfect job of parking the boat, a gust of wind hit the mainsail
43. Murray and Mr Hawk hurried from the house and drove the truck and panel van up to the front door, then they took their coats off and began lugging the heavy equipment inside to a room two doors away from the kitchen, the door was locked, using his picks again it was soon open, and there in the centre of the room was the Wilson, Murray covered the barred window with the blackout curtain using a nail gun, next he poured a liberal amount of super epoxy glue over the combination dial, he then set about anchoring the box with builders acrow screws, these extended a further three metres and when braced against the walls stopped the box from moving, next he set up the extractor hood over the area he was about to cut, he then ran the exhaust pipe to the ornate fireplace, he began then to measure the end plate of the box, using a steel scribe he marked a cross, each line fifteen centimetres long, then he laid out the components to set up the thermic lance, these were two metre long steel pipes filled with carbon, attached at one end, which was threaded, by tubing to an oxygen bottle, when you heat up one end of the tube with the oxyacetylene torch you slowly open the oxygen valve on the other end and you have a lance that will melt any metal, the noise is similar to a jet engine ten mile away and the amount of smoke it gives off is similar to the steam from a steam train, needless to say you need an industrial extractor to deal with it
44. He unscrewed the nut on the threaded post holding in the tire jack
45. The archway of braided willow was threaded with yellow-dyed linen and a lively bouquet of wildflowers
46. Hubert threaded his way through the Forest, sometimes on the pathway, sometimes through the trees
47. “Haven’t you forgotten something?” Cherry asked, as they threaded their
48. “First,” screamed the fatter witch in triumph, as the troll threaded between
49. She threaded her way through the trees
50. looked as if it were marble, but in-bedded in the marble were lines of luminescent rock, as if threaded with raw veins of molten ore, or frozen lightening
1. encouragement and had already begun threading his way
2. Dozens of people crisscrossed the room, men in sharp black suits threading their way among various tradesmen
3. “They call that threading the needle
4. set off in the direction of the bridge, threading his way
5. They could see the curving road with burned and blasted vehicles, some still smoking, mixed with maneuvering tracks threading their way west, smoke curving from barrels as they fought
6. Shawn and Whitey walked up Le Loi threading their way around the black market goods spread out nearly to the gutter on sidewalks that had been tiled in the best French fashion but were now chipped and stained
7. I’d cut holes in it, and then wind the rope up the mast, threading
8. At this moment Charly caught sight of two of her young co-workers threading through the crowd
9. It is a thankless task that of threading phrases or sentences to justify the inexplicable actions! If I did not even understand why I behaved that way; much less I could explain to a third party the cause of such behavior
10. After threading string through the tube created by the hem, he tied off the other end tightly with a shorter piece, creating a pocket
11. Across the ledge and around the crag and down the narrow trail threading the great steep they plunged at breakneck speed
12. The ceaseless caravans, threading the desert from east to west and back again, brought riches and more mingling of races
13. threading her way through the tables
14. Finally, he saw a thin stream of bubbles threading upward
15. Each of the deceased climbed on the bed beside him, threading themselves through the myriad of wires and tubes to hold him tightly
16. Carefully threading it back through the vertical holes in the grate, he twisted it sideways
17. She nods, threading her arm through his so they can lock elbows and hold hands as they step inside, into a narrow hallway that leads all the way to the back of the building
18. Threading their way through the crowd of
19. Threading With Hair Inhibitors Is A Perfect Combination!
20. Apply with a cotton swab after threading to greatly reduce eyebrow hair growth
21. Threading is an ancient method of hair removal still used in many countries in the Middle East as well as India and Pakistan
22. The procedure-- quick and neat, if not painless--is threading, a millenniums-old tradition in Asia
23. The advantage over plucking with tweezers, according to Sudhir Nakum, is that plucking pulls out one hair at a time, creating bumps in the skin, while threading pulls out rows of hair, which he says keeps the skin smooth
24. Some hair removal methods such as waxing, sugaring and threading can only remove the hairs which are currently above the skin by 1/8 or 1/4 inch
25. Murmurs of approval came quickly, threading through the group as they all waited for her response
26. I could use some mountain air,” Trina said, threading her hand around Trent’s elbow
27. My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
28. "You are certainly out of your mind," he observed, without even raising his head, lisping as deliberately as ever and threading his needle
29. Threading their way carefully through these and avoiding as much as possible the mud, pools of water, and rubbish which covered the ground, they arrived at a large gate fastened with a padlock
30. While she was threading her way back across the room Mrs
31. I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it
32. As Caris was threading her way through the winding streets, she came upon two men fighting
33. Storms reduced visibility to zero, a major problem for pilots searching for tiny islands or threading through the mountains that flanked some Hawaiian runways
34. defended himself, but glancing at his master, he saw from his face that the only thing to do was to be silent, and hurriedly threading his way in and out, dropped down on the carpet and began gathering up the whole and broken glasses and bottles
35. The strip of lit windows on the side of the boat was a ribbon threading through black water
36. impossible: it was a method of interpretation which was not tested by the necessity of forming anything which had sharper collisions than an elaborate notion of Gog and Magog: it was as free from interruption as a plan for threading the stars together
37. I lay down on the floor and tried threading myself under the gate: toes, calves, then stuck at my waist
38. He was the only man in all of Dublin I saw in the downpours and drizzles who stood by the hour alone with the drench mizzling his ears, threading his ash-red hair, plastering it over his skull, rivuleting his eyebrows, and washing over the coal-black insect lenses of the glasses on his rain-pearled nose
39. They were still in the silver tunnel, threading and weaving their way through what appeared tobe a crisscross warren of converging tunnels
40. Then Menville turned and began to walk away, threading through the gravestones, tears streaming down his cheeks
41. My ear, too, felt the flow of currents; in what dales and depths I could not tell: but there were many hills beyond Hay, and doubtless many becks threading their passes
42. Threading this chaos, I at last reached the larder; there I took possession of a cold chicken, a roll of bread, some tarts, a plate or two and a knife and fork: with this booty I made a hasty retreat
43. While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance
44. He rushes on and on, never missing his footing, never hesitating, threading his way with perfect skill between tree trunks, jumping over bush and briar and the smaller streams, wading the larger, swimming the largest of all
45. In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons, I sometimes heard a pack of hounds threading all the woods with hounding cry and yelp, unable to resist the instinct of the chase, and the note of the hunting-horn at intervals, proving that man was in the rear
46. For a long time he stood still and listened to their music, so sweet to a hunter's ear, when suddenly the fox appeared, threading the solemn aisles with an easy coursing pace, whose sound was concealed by a sympathetic rustle of the leaves, swift and still, keeping the round, leaving his pursuers far behind; and, leaping upon a rock amid the woods, he sat erect and listening, with his back to the hunter
47. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish
48. For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul
49. I would follow the flight of a bird threading its way in the pure transparent air; now it skims the water, now disappears in the azure sky, now suddenly comes to view again, a mere point in space
50. Golyadkin junior, with his characteristic insolence, pirouetting and threading his way among the clerks, and directing their attention to the petrified though genuine Mr
1. the flat was to buy threads and cottons
2. threads of her invisible web, a subtly delicious hour of play as she watched him eat,
3. Out of a chaos of nations, creeds and racial threads, the lure of the
4. I pulled together my ragged, ravenous threads of thought
5. There would be a little moment of thrill when she stretched her legs out on the threads of her invisible web, a subtly delicious hour of play as she watched him eat, and then there would be the ultimate liaison dangereux
6. In the stirring grasses thin threads cover new green shoots
7. This pill dislocates, it breaks the threads
8. out of binary switches and threads of energy?
9. They were sewn with real silver threads and were made of the most exquisite golden cloth
10. It looked like the seamstress had counted threads for each stitch
11. They were sewn with real silver threads and were made of the
12. silver threads and the diamonds, she completely revised her opinion
13. “Not only is this poorly crafted---note how the threads of the wraps bulge over the burrs left on the guide feet, and the gaps between reel seat, grip and hardware---now listen:” and he pulled on the rod to separate the two pieces which made not a sound at the parting
14. Tea is made by the female officer and the mother pulls enough threads of her life together to drink half a mug of the hot, sweet liquid and then get dressed
15. Far to the south, she could just see the last threads of the clouds disappearing towards the horizon, driven by the fresh breeze
16. A suit brush hung to one side and a repair kit with extra buttons, needles, and matching threads
17. Grief unravels the knots that hold the fabric of everyday lives together, and Billy is a loose arrangement of tangled threads and regrets
18. Belle set him to sorting yarns and threads for her blankets and rugs and stringing them on her traditional looms
19. Weaving threads of silver, gold, and colored silk into her cloth, she made pictures of flowers, birds, and animals, so real they seemed almost alive
20. Thin streams of energy leapt out before him, illuminating the room in a bluish glow as the threads traced the path of the serving girls
21. Children are present," Brice could no longer contain his anger, threads of blue light spilled from his golden sleeves
22. Crackling as they wove through the air, the threads of light closed in on the meteor, diving into its fiery tail
23. Immediately, he tugged on the blue threads, redirecting its course moments before it slammed into the earth
24. It barely stirred the threads of his black robe
25. A hundred threads of light wafted toward Whimly, moving to tear apart his puffy white flesh
26. Should anyone sense his trace, he would likely be imprisoned if not sentenced to death, but he doubted anyone present could sense such fine threads – so many, yet so thin they were almost invisible to even him
27. She’d tie long linen threads to their feet, then he could play with them
28. Silver threads glinted where it twisted at the waist
29. With a couple quick flicks of his wrists, X’ander let fly his daggers, slicing through several of the black threads
30. As it spun, I grasped threads and braided them together
31. The coat was partially opened to reveal a posh set of embroidered clothing, golden threads adorning his fine black tunic and the sides of his pants
32. The golden threads created a handsome pattern, but there were no imperial symbols slipped into the weave
33. The more threads you add the bigger the ball gets,
34. I straightened the A-lined skirt of my white chiffon dress with its V-neck lace bodice and checked that the long, wide laced elvish styled sleeves had not caught onto anything and left loose threads
35. Deep within the Darkness that was his anima, something flickered, stirring from the depths, and as the last threads of life drained from his body, Skelda discovered the way forward
36. Heat, without stirring, to 270 to 290 degrees F (132 to 143 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard but pliable threads
37. Heat to 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads
38. Stirring constantly, heat to 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads
39. For it is indeed made of the finest of threads and is held together by My strength
40. This is called "divine manipulation of the threads
41. There they sat, clustered under the embroidered canopy with fringe balls all tailored in gold, silver and purple threads
42. consciousness is never completely fragmented, and there are always threads of
43. He took a moment to get the staff to fire up their machine and put on an appliqué that said, “The Kid,” in silver threads on the back of it, in big, bold lettering a hundred centimetres high
44. Brendan and Layla stood in the center of the glittering winged oval of the Great Seal of the Empire, woven in red, gold and black threads into the deep pile of the antiseptically clean white rug
45. They had touched each other with thin threads I had strung between them
46. Four insect aliens floated there, like spiders dangling on silky threads
47. Some might refer to her as my half-sister, but she was like a full sister to me, and because of the common DNA threads of our fathers being brothers, whom I mentioned in the opening pages, scientifically she was as much as 85 or 90 percent my full sister
48. I recognize her expression as the one she wears when she threads a needle
49. The elevator doors open, and the wind hits us immediately, still warm but woven with threads of winter cold
50. He touches the screen again, and the screen changes, but it remains just as confusing, a web of lines, tangled threads of numbers