...His unconquerable pride revolted at the idea that a man had held suspended at the end of his finger the thread of his royal life... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... 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」
...He hassat spinning his web like a great spider and for every thread there has been anocean of blood spilled...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...One thread of hair that conjured up a million thoughts...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... 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」
...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」
...Although my clothes were of the strongest and coarsest Arab cotton cloth, which seldom tore, but simply lost a thread when caught in a thorn, I was nearly naked...
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」
... "Poor Saat," said my wife, "his life hangs upon a thread...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of 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」
...--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」
...It ismore than probable that the Fasees learned theart of manufacturing gold thread from theEgyptians: it is much superior to that which isimported into Barbary from Marseilles...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...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]」
... 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」
...The Bákele supply sheep and fowls to the Plateau, and their main industry consists in dressing plantain-fibre for thread and nets...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...The mill-pond, too, had its charms; and with my pinhook, and thread line, I could get nibbles, if I could catch no fish...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
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