packthread

1 Now, if we could get rid of the bonds of self first, we could snap the other fetters like packthread.

2 Then tie them round with packthread, and put them into a stone jar till it is two-thirds full.

3 But M. Berthémie, more prudent than I, carried over his shoulder a great quantity of pieces of black bread, tied up with packthread.

4 It was not wrapped in paper; it was packed close and very skillfully bound together with cords, lengthwise and crosswise, making a network of packthread all over it.

5 The carpet and furniture are strewed with long, straggling pieces of packthread.

6 Claverton was for the moment mad, and the stout raw-hide thongs fell from him like packthread, as with one tiger bound, he sprang upon Mopela and bore him to the earth.

7 On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite. 

8 They would not trust me with a toothpick or a button or a piece of common packthread.

9 BRIDER.—To pass a packthread through poultry, game, &c., to keep together their members.

10 His shoes were newly greased, and ornamented with a pair of rusty iron buckles; the packthread at his knees had been renewed; and where he wanted buttons, he wore pins.

11 And as he spoke, he handed her the note, which was tied with a piece of packthread, and directed in strange and almost illegible characters.

12 The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle. 

13 His family had an English Bible; and to conceal it the more securely, they conceived the project of fastening it open with packthreads across the leaves, on the inside of the lid of a close-stool!

14 They were also ragged, but the rags were bound fast into the pockets with packthread; one string round the ancles, one under the knee, and another round about the waist.

15 So he can go with his Skylarks they may wear sackcloth for pinafores, and packthread for garters.

16 Hoop-coat, masks, packthread stays--these seem strange dress for growing girls.

17 Tie on with a packthread the bit that was cut out.

18 This accomplished, the tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed, so it was said the child would recover.

19 The front part of the boy only was covered: he had only the foreparts of trowsers—the rest was packthread, the bare, naked packthread.

20 Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.

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