How To Use Packthread In A Sentence
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In lieu of buckles at his knees, he wore unequal loops of packthread; and in his grimy hands he held a knotted stick, the knob of which was carved into a rough likeness of his own vile face.
Barnaby Rudge
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
Phineas Redux
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Immediately below is Fairmilehead, a spot of roof and a smoking chimney, where two roads, no thicker than packthread, intersect beside a hanging wood.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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When my great-grandfather wished to read to his family, he reversed the lid of the close-stool upon his knees, and passed the leaves from one side to the other, which were held down on each by the packthread.
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Boil different sorts of vegetables together, including half a peck of pens, and a cabbage blanched, cut in quarters, and tied with packthread.
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread ...
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But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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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.
Barnaby Rudge
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If for dewing, tie cadi with packthread j dew dowly with white wine and cul - lis, a feggot of fweet herbs, a few cloves and diallots | when done, flcim and fift the fauce to ferve upon them.
Every Woman Her Own House-keeper; Or, The Ladies' Library: Containing the ...
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The horse sports ‘a woman's crupper of velour, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs, and [is] here and there pieced with packthread.’
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The early part of Monte Cristo, down to the finding of the treasure, is a piece of perfect story-telling; the man never breathed who shared these moving incidents without a tremor; and yet Faria is a thing of packthread and Dantes little more than a name.
Memories and Portraits
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His nerves had previously been ``made of packthread . . . proof against weather, ingratitude, meat-under-done, every weapon of fate'', according to a letter written to one of his other enthusiasms, William Wordsworth.
Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG
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I thought I saw a lucid interval in George the other night - he broke in upon my studies just at tea-time, and brought with him Dr. A, an old gentleman who ties his breeches' knees with packthread, and boasts that he has been disappointed by ministers.
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Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.
Ivanhoe
