| 单词 | thread |
| 例句 | How do we begin, I wonder, to take up the broken thread of our long-ago story? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Together, slowly, they sorted and named the threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting near the lake, watching the giant squid waving its tentacles lazily above the water, Harry lost the thread of the conversation as he looked across to the opposite bank. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z If Lincoln had been stabbed, how could he stitch the wounds without needle and thread? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out the great tilting helm silently, with its familiar panache of heron hackles and the silver thread. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And up she came, climbing foot over foot up the silk thread, and at the same time tucking the thread back cleverly into her body as she climbed past it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z A single thread of it runs down through his whiskers and Werner watches it go. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When the ant finally came out at the other end, the thread, of course, was running clear through all the twists and turns. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt around, then pulled up a tiny thread of spider silk. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The white threads of his tzitzit entwine with the tiny shoots springing up from the base of a tree. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She wound her bracelet around her wrist again, fingering the knotted red thread, the three sparkly silver beads. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I stepped aside to avoid walking into the thread with which his girl assistant manipulated the boxers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Hold it delicately. It’s not a spear. One brings the thread to it.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Yellow snippets of stitching, unpicked from around the sole, to form the delicate threads of its heart. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But after Henry died, it was as if some thread which bound us had been abruptly severed, and soon after we began to drift apart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z One of the women was embroidering a wedding sari, coiling gold thread along its borders and fastening it with the tiniest stitches imaginable. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z My skirt is ripped to my thigh, and a sleeve of my shirt hangs by a few threads. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One morning, a few weeks later, the chief warder, instead of handing us hammers for our work in the courtyard, gave us each needles and thread and a pile of worn prison jerseys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She began as a thread cutter, even though in Puerto Rico she had been a machine operator. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His tunic and toga were of black wool, embroidered with threads of gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z You do the same thing with the next one, only this time you thread it through the first link. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He tinkered with his draft for a further quarter of an hour, then threaded in new sheets and typed up a fair copy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In effect, I had witnessed a crucial event in the emergence of aids, the transformation of a thread of dirt into a ribbon of tar. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The threadmaster was sitting atop his spool of thread, swinging his tail back and forth and eating a piece of celery. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He learned that the three Fates had spun all of Admetus’ thread of life, and were on the point of cutting it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a cobweb threading his dark hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor—if you can keep it, it is yours. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But even Father could hardly order her to do push-ups if he detected a loose thread. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Though there were no gold or silver threads woven into her sari, she wore a sari of great rarity and beauty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z With the cyclotron grant hanging by a thread, he undertook to hustle them for votes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Carefully, she cut out letters spelling the Beiderman’s name from the green felt; then she threaded her needle and sewed the letters onto the rectangular red piece. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z One day, while the two of them went to buy embroidery threads, Celia decided to cook them a savory flank-steak stew. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the scissors out of the sewing basket in the kitchen and snipped the threads of the hem of my cloak. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She was bending over her old treadle Singer sewing machine, threading a bobbin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I snipped a length of quilting thread from the spool. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The party clambered on the truck—Gay drove and Mack sat beside him; they bumped around the corner of Lee Chong’s and down through the lot, threading among the pipes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Golds, light yellows deepening to vibrant orange, reds from the palest pink to the darkest crimson, greens, all shades, threaded in their intricate patterns, told the history of the world and its Rum. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Destiny is not a single path, but many, Ekon. Some are as straight as an arrow, others twist and tangle like thread. Our duty is not to question them but to follow them.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He holds up Abby’s phone, with its Rifle floral phone case—and sure enough, there’s a massive text thread of photos. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The soldiers overturned the tables and chairs, and Amah’s carefully organized box of threads and sewing tools were strewn on the floor, red silk lying on the ground like a pool of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z On the very top lay the gold threaded pouch that held the ripped page of fortune. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Suppose someone found our thread and pulled it out? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The Great Spirit lived in all things—the earth, the sky, the animals and forests—flowing through and connecting them in a divine thread. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Most importantly, Teresita gave us a short piece of silver silk thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The ruler swung his sword in the other direction, squinting through the threads of snow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The threads break away from the cell and drift into the bloodstream of the host, multiplying and taking over more cells and forming bricks and bursting the cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Caroline is just like you. She sleeps a hair thread away from waking, and she rises with the roosters.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It had begun to snow again, and despite the walkway’s canopy, the snowflakes flew in like fine silver threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I had not yet learned anything that would have helped me to thread my way through these perplexing racial relations. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the holster, and the anxiety threaded into his veins, pulsed from his chest up to his throat, and he couldn’t breathe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The thread faded, fraying away, until it was gone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Cooks dropped fish heads into woks of hissing oil, and urchins threaded their way underfoot searching for unguarded valuables. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Anya did what she could, still stunned at the threads all around. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I watched her face knot up like a thread, and then she let go. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Inside her shelter she cut a long thread of hide and twisted it into a snare. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I’m stitching the scraps back together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Strung between a window in each of two towers was a gossamer thread of china from which hung—laundry! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She responded, briefly but politely, and threaded her attention through the eye of her needle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, there: a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way down a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The snake turned and looked at them with tiny eyes like knotted black threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They were talking though, and I had lost the thread of conversation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The old city walls wove in and out of the hillside like stone thread through a green cloth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It stretched out its legs rigidly, then did a back flip, breaking the thread and landing on the desk, where it began to cartwheel in circles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The composure I had fifteen minutes ago is coming undone, thread by thread. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Davos threaded their way deftly between the jagged rocks until the cave mouth loomed up before them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By Thursday nights, the Sunday chicken that Grandma had roasted was down to a few threads in the soup we would eat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even though The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring ballets all have narrative threads, Stravinsky played against this tendency in his scores for them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Way he usually eats, I’m surprised the fish hasn’t disappeared straight from the bones, but he’s focusing on his fingers and the fish’s spine like he’s trying to thread a needle. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I yelled at her retreating back as she threaded her way through the crowd. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The stone seemed to reflect all the splendors of the world: the glittering of the sun on the sea, the flickering of fire, and the shine of silken threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But the threading had been hard for her because she had no sense of what the buildings were. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The spider leaned down and snapped a thread with its jaws. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Anya hunched over her dress that Zvezda had torn the day before, drawing a needle and thread through the cloth to repair the tear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z How thin indeed was the thread upon which doom still hung! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I tried to use some earth magic, and all I did was throw dirt in a zmeyok’s face. I can’t even see threads most of the time.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It’s a long wooden piece with a cluster of threads dangling from the end. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We made the frames with two- by-fours; then we drilled holes in the sides and threaded ropes through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Unravel the invisible threads linking us together one by one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Carefully she threads silver ribbon through the tree branches in the back, ducking her head so I can’t see her face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The branches of the oak trees and their dangling threads of moss sweep the ground, and the sweet scent of magnolia flowers fill the air. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Then the judge's small clear voice took up the thread once more. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z And Justin, taking the thread with him as a guideline, went back to search for the other six. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was like a thread of light passing from one to the other, and it was more than acquiescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The drive was a ribbon now, a thread of its former self, with gravel surface gone, and choked with grass and moss. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He filled the white-rabbit rice bowl with noodles, the long strips hanging from his chopsticks like limp threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s nothing but a thousand tiny x’s to be made up in different colors of thread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Miguel picked up the thread: “‘a book is man’s best friend.’” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging by a thread. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Their fingers flew as they chatted together, the pale fibers stretching and uncurling into threads for what would become kente cloth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is there thread anywhere, talk less of the money to buy it?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The first woman sighed and rummaged through the threads some more. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her slender fingers traced a gold thread on the skirt through its intricate leaf pattern. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She looked at Tayo and picked a thread off the bottom of her apron. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z If we were lucky they wouldn’t get the film threaded upside-down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Fadi popped in a new roll of film and threaded it into the take-up spool. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z On the outside, its walls are made of the strongest river stones, but inside, they are woven from threads of soft cloud. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Cities were shown as stars in gold or silver thread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning, but instead I said, “I.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Either across the dead seas or out of space in a rocket on a little thread of red flame. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking a piece of sinew from the ground skin, she threaded it into her needle and pierced the soft flesh. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But a thread of nervousness weaves through his laughter. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He set out on a path that threaded through knots of pines, looking into them and nodding now and again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They threaded their way through crowds of tourists. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A common thread to the talk was that he’d gotten too big for his britches—again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had left the thread, anchored by the screwdriver, to guide us out. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “That be the knowledge. I got it for the colors but never for the threads. My hands was always too coarse.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the sleeplessness starting to unravel her brain like a kitten with a blanket, pulling at important threads until it wasn’t even functional anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Dazzling tapestries woven with gold and silver threads decorated the hall. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Make way for the thread!” cried a mouse who was pushing a wooden spool of red thread through the crowd. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I'm looking at the threads in the rug. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “He’ll try to thread a needle with a horse as the flying field turns down the last bend for home, and you must salute him for his courage, if not his judgment.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She anticipated his wants, pulled out the threads on the cuffs of his shirt, and embroidered a dozen handkerchiefs with his initials for his birthday. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We didn’t have a spinning wheel, so she used a drop spindle to make thread out of the clumps of clean cotton that Grandma Charity and I pulled. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah made fast the thread and sat with idle hands, her eyes never leaving the young sailor’s face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “First time you try to shoot the sun, it’s about like trying to thread a needle when you’re running downhill.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira greeted him happily, showed him the robe and threads, and told him of her day with the old dyer. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hands she holds a spindle, and on it she spins the threads of your child’s life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Worn spots in the linen had been strengthened with 60-weight thread. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I pick at a thread on my skirt. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Without noticing, Grandma Charity and I would have combed a big pile of cotton while Grandma Sylvie was busy turning it into ball thread. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When you think about it, there is no common thread of ownership, or any other meaning, across the phrases Sophocles’ play, Sophocles’ nose, Sophocles’ toga, Sophocles’mother, Sophocles’ hometown, Sophocles’ era, and Sophocles’ death. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The brown mouth of a drain, stained black at the lower edge by a thin, dried thread of blood: of rabbit’s blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Quickly, with an occasional crackle of twigs, they threaded their way back to the clearing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes. You are mistaken. I put a new skein beside you only an hour ago. You have mislaid the thread,” he insisted. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Then at last, moving slowly, as if walking in a dream, a woman in a robe of threaded silver came gliding from the hall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Or like Amah, who seemed to weave silk threads with her voice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Cobwebs spun threads upon the ship's models, making their own ghostly rigging. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Emma didn’t mind his experiments with her flowers or his forages into her sewing box for threads to use in his experiments. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The full, bosomy elms made a tunnel of shade over the yellow and red brick fronts along Commonwealth Avenue, and a trolley car was threading itself toward Boston down its slim, silver track. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Funny to think that the course of my existence hung like a thread upon that quality of hers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Paul got the job and worked twelve-hour days threading cords into automobile tires for less than five dollars a week. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She threaded her way through the shop toward the sound of Fin’s voice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She spun a special web and instructed them to press handfuls of the silky threads into the injuries. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He touches the screen again, and the screen changes, but it remains just as confusing, a web of lines, tangled threads of numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Happily ever after,” he said again as the spool of thread came to a stop beside him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Prickles rising on the nape of my neck, I bent to scrutinize the tree trunk more closely: silvery bark, cool to the touch, ants marching out of a fissure in a glittering black thread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The thread led to a piece of cloth wrapped around one of the arms of the root—the remaining part of the boy's unraveled shirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Emerging from the woods near Hampden, into an expanse of snow-covered meadow that sparkled in the light, I saw twin threads of smoke coming from the age-blacked chimneys at either end of Commons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Chances are the thread viruses can survive for some time—if the surface is free of sunlight, which would break apart the virus’s genetic material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father finishes stitching my wound, ties off the thread, and covers the stitches with a bandage. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Behind him they walked in file, threading their way with care, for under the weedy pools were sliding and greasy stones, and footing was treacherous. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I held my suitcase in my right hand and was wearing brown traditional summer pants with zigzag thread patterns at the bottom and a T-shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Her long dark hair was braided with threads of gold. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The threads push through the cell wall and grow out of the cell, like grass rising from seeded loam. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow him down a long, dim hallway, away from the front, where I entered, threading our way past more rows of cots, some with men asleep on them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She had cut the last thread of propriety. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamma darted an indignant look at Papa, who appeared to be extremely invested in a loose thread on his kurta. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Far away to the left the river Entwash wound, a silver thread in a green floor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The pipes were decorated with gold, red, yellow, and green threads and beaded like holiday clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The godswife took out a silver needle and a bobbin of silk thread and began to close the flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “My cousin used to stand on her head and let out enough thread to form a balloon. Then she’d let go and be lifted into the air and carried upward on the warm wind.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Even from this distance, Catelyn could make out the shining silver thread, bright against the dark stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And even when I mess up, I just pull out the thread and start all over again until I get it right. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At either end of the shed, made by the crisscrossing of warp threads, was a narrow wooden trough. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He wore a black velvet doublet with the crowned stag of Baratheon worked upon the breast in golden thread, and a golden mantle with a cloak of black and gold squares. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They would tie the end of their thread to the grid in our laboratory and unroll it from the spool as they went. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The passionate noise of agreement from the assembly hit him like a wave and he lost his thread. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The men helped him; the women made the fur into thread and then into mittens and beautiful sweaters and scarves. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the old dyer’s threads were almost gone — and the woman herself was gone too — Kira found herself desperately hoping that she would be able to remember and to create the dyes alone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled the pendant free and Fiona threaded the silver chain through the little eye on top. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A sickle moon threaded itself into the silk. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Small threads dangled from the hem and the buttons. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The green of the jade bracelet shimmered at her, like a thread in one of Amah’s embroidery silks. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Kin’s fingers struggled in the air, and whenever he would grab hold of a thread, Sigurd would swing his sword at Kin with a snarl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Petey threaded her fingers through his and pulled him into a patch of wildflowers, more weeds than flowers, a patch that came up almost to their elbows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She felt the humming threads of life all around her, and they were different here, deep in the Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I tug the silk threads from a nearby tapestry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Despereaux smelled the sharp, clean scent of celery as the threadmaster bent his head, took hold of the thread around Despereaux's neck in his sharp teeth, and pulled on it hard. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z In a puzzled voice she said, “There is no thread here.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Lena had rich lines of multicolored rainbow thread wrapped around her wrists. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She plucked the strings of her apron, unraveling the thread. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z An impatient man on a Harley trying to work his way between traffic, like threading a needle. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The density of threads rising from the assembled army was almost overwhelming, and Anya gaped at them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z After several minutes of consulting his book, he opened his sack and handed us a red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z My head feels like a spool of thread unwinding. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They passed under where the water touched the ceiling, and then Ivan pulled threads to close the ditch of air behind them, forming an oblong bubble around them instead. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The Wood was dark and silent, the moonlight threading its way down between naked branches to shed long dark shadows along the ground. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the black snake crawl and glide until it became a thin silk thread in the distance and disappeared. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Snapping drums, a flexing of sound, and a high threading of guitar over a smoother cadence and then the man sang. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The air around his lips went from cool to hot with the threads of sounds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z No thread, no frailest hair between myself and the universal clutter! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hanging by a thread and not a pretty sight. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z With shaking hands, I threaded the needle and figured out how to stab it through the buttonhole, but it came right out the other side. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Omakayas helped her, threading the tough basswood strands through holes punched by Grandma’s awl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z For the first time a thread of doubt entered Nhamo’s mind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they cleared a place for a fire, surrounded it with stones, then gathered twigs, leaves and branches to burn, plus four slim branches on which they could thread the fish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In her right hand she held a glittering ball of thread—Ariadne’s string—but she popped it into a lion’s mouth at her waist and drew her curved swords. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And it was I who gentled thee, I was the one who drew the thread That seeled thy eyelids. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Worse, though, in either failing or succeeding, they might anger the king—and thus cause him to let the thread go. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There, both thread and fabric were a fresh and sunny yellow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Confused, I lift my arm and see it’s entangled in shimmering golden threads. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mother and Esi, a recently married friend, sat on the ground, spinning cotton threads for yarn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a waste for such a pretty girl to dress in a widow’s sari. I have a sari with real gold threads. It would make me very happy to see you wear it.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing the plain black cap and robes of his station, but they were made of the finest silk, embroidered all over with phoenixes in black thread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z What we did, after some more discussion, was to find some equipment: first, a large spool of thread in one of the cabinets where some of us had seen Julie place it one day. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A thread of unease stitched along Thomas’s skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As he scrolled through the forums, clicking on threads, a little pop-up window appeared at the top of his screen. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Stitching in golden thread covers the whole, matched by golden buttons and golden buckles on his tall boots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They measured the spokes, making certain they were of identical lengths, then wrapped a thread that turned the spokes into an eight-angled star with a perfect center. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The man fastened the clamp over the ends of the threads and pulled them out one by one. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t know if this thing was Marburg, but it sure as hell looked like a filovirus, a thread virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bias tape is threaded through the top and tied just above the bust. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She still smiled but it was tighter now, and she traced her fingers along the threaded pattern of the duvet, grizzly bears that Conor had outgrown years ago. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He peered intently as her right hand picked up the needle threaded with green. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Opening her fingers, she cleaned the thread, then rolled it along her hairline and the tops of her eyebrows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The spell whizzed right at the witch, and the thread holding one of his silver jacket buttons came undone. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z As he went by the cave-mouth he saw that the Curtain was now become a dazzling veil of silk and pearls and silver thread: melting icicles of moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I feel as though I’d eaten a spool of thread. Well, home we go!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Etienne threaded the film through the projector and plugged the machine into an electrical outlet. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The New York Times said: G. M. Pennington faced a daunting task in tying together the dozens of disparate threads in the Bloodfall series to bring things to a satisfying conclusion. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Harry had a sudden and vivid mental image of a great swollen spider, spinning a web around it, twitching a thread here and there to bring its large and juicy flies a little closer. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z History consists for the most part of a complex bundle of deeply interwoven threads, social, cultural and economic forces that are not easily unraveled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unbuckling my seat belt, I twisted between the front seats and threaded my legs through them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z No one could find string for the finish, so a second- story mother dropped down a spool of bright pink thread. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken his shirt off to bathe, and I could see draped over his left shoulder the sacred thread given to Brahman boys when they come of age. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Though the threading took skill, it did not take the physical strength demanded in the machine rooms, and the girls sat on high stools as they worked. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Over the years, over the course of her life, she would try repeatedly to untangle these threads, and find each time that they were hopelessly intertwined. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I got the needle and thread from Moms’ room and started sewing up Derek’s pants. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The light came to rest directly on Despereaux’s big ears sticking up from behind the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z With his tongue against the roof of his mouth, he made the repetitive muted clacking sound of the shuttle, and then the whisper of the threads turning into cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Frayed yellow threads of dawn were trailing through the sky when we finally reached the gate. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was of azure sarsenet, hand-embroidered in gold thread with the numerous small fleur-de-lis of ancient France. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a hole on the cover, and the back seemed to be hanging by a thread. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As the clumps of men stretched and thinned into a long, broken thread, Louie sank through the field, to twelfth. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I threaded my baton through its ring on my belt, trying to imagine a scenario in which I might have to wield it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think we’re witnessing a dance battle,” she whispers, threading her fingers through mine. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Then, abruptly, a needle of a foreign emotion slices through our raging tempest, a thread of worry from him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I know it’s a little scary,” I said, grabbing onto that loose thread of hope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Aru had worn what she thought was her prettiest outfit: a bright blue salwar kameez flecked with tiny star-shaped mirrors and embroidered with thousands of silver threads. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then why had something snapped like a broken warp thread inside Lyddie’s soul? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As they wound up the thread, it seemed to get thicher and thicker. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A phul-khana, a wedding veil of fine silk and embroidered in gold thread, disappeared overnight. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I heard a roar threaded through with scream. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The girl was immaculate—not a blue thread out of place, her chignon of long fair hair coiled in regulation neatness two inches above her uniform collar. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I pick at a loose thread on his comforter. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He held up a needle, threaded with stitching line. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at odds with his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He tugged at it with one paw “Don’t touch the thread, ” barked the second hood. “\\eah,” echoed the first hood, “don’t touch the thread. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z In her hands, she holds the rod used to measure the thread of life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He pinched the thread with his other hand and then said, “Anya! It broke!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They’re like the needle; the bass is more like the thread. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It was braided from red and gold threads, and it was quite thick. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Ferro stopped at a workbench and picked up a tap and threading tool. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her long, tapered fingers with their bright-red nails pulled the threads in and out, stitching designs so intricate and clever, they took my breath away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There followed a long moment, the only sound was that of the thread being drawn through cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thick velvet hangings admitted no thread of light, and would muffle the sound of prayer and war alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As I was picking up from the back steps, I noticed a clump of stuff: pieces of paper, cloth, thread, dust balls, Kleenex, all wadded up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “How romantic of you,” Shae said, and she might have meant for her words to sound wry, but Con heard a thread of wistfulness in her voice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Botticelli looked down at the spool of thread and smiled. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the stitches, up close, black thread surrounded by swollen purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Wisps of pale mist threaded between the trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Zahra sends him an email full of Twitter threads about him and Nora that night when he’s in bed, and he feels sick. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And it was in this way that Despereaux became the only mouse sent to the dungeon whom the rats did not reduce to a pile of bones and a piece of red thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Women and children worked in the neighboring sheds, twisting hair, weaving hair, plaiting hair with thread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The “little fancy lady kit” turned out to be a box of thread, scissors, and a tiny piece of embroidery. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z First they assume the form of elongated threads, on which the genes are aligned, like beads on a string. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And as Despereaux stood before them with the red thread around his neck and the fourteen members of the Mouse Council perched on the bricks above him, two burly mice came forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z My hands that can hold needle and thread and create something beautiful. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She’d rebraided her hair, spilled a box of thread, and after picking the spools up, had taken to pacing back and forth. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I took out needle and thread and went about mending the tears in the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A dozen lines of thought began and continued in my brain without ending; crossing, tangling, like threads on some meaningless warp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And she dropped her eyes and fell to twisting a bit of the bedding where a thread was loosened, and she waited patiently as one who scarcely expects an answer. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Sabeen picks a new pin and punches it into New York, then stretches the dangling thread far west to Arizona. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “See, you can be a pretty girl,” she said, handing me her precious pouch of needles, thimbles, and thread. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Bribed!” said Citra, holding on to a last thread of hope. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “What if he tries to take the threads that you’re holding? Can he take them even if you don’t let go?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The girl looked long and hard into the doll’s brown eyes then smiled like she saw something there ’sides a couple of buttons and some thread. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He gave it a gentle push with one paw “Red thread. Yes. Exactly Just when you think that life in the dungeon cannot get any better, a mouse arrives.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She dressed Aurelia in her most beautiful dress, the finest imported silk in bright, eye-catching colors banded with gold thread, and draped a contrasting palla around her shoulders. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z There were some common threads among the fairy tales she had read. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood for hours, winding yam, her hands clumsy, unaccustomed to the job she had to do, the thread catching, catching on the rough places on her fingers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he stepped back and turned and shouted, “Fellow mice, the thread has been tied. The thread has been knotted.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Something significant had happened last night, a thread that interwove between her, the Shetani, and that strange feeling in her feet, but she couldn’t understand the connection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Although I watched the other girls, I could not thread it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If you managed to put your point through the ring, the thread broke, and you could canter off proudly with the ring round your spear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His antlers are threaded with a few thin cobwebs, and his coat is a white so bright that it seems silver in the afternoon light. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There are still tendrils of mist threaded through the evergreens that rise along the surrounding bluffs. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I had wrapped this thread around my finger and was pulling on it as gently as I could, lest it break. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But now that it was deprived of the late owner’s dedicated attention, the first threads of decay’s cobweb were being spun. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head, opened the package to free the curved needle and silk thread. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The magic feeling of their initial escape from Martha’s Vineyard threaded itself through the days. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I raise my hand to give Cal a high five, but instead, he threads his fingers through mine for just a second. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He leaned his head against the spool of thread, and he smelled celery there and he thought of Hovis and how Hovis seemed to believe in him and his quest. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “They should have given you your mother’s name,” she said, taking the pouch of needles, thread, and thimbles from me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The light from the thread spread down to the needle and over her arm, covering her entirely. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Candice pulled at the fraying threads of one of the couch cushions. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Matthias continued ducking and weaving, conscious that his life hung by a thread. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Slowly, it disappeared from view with the thread scratching the darkening sky with a faint red line. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “See,” she said, pointing at the shed, “a warp thread’s snapped. If we don’t catch that, we’re in trouble.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z What she wanted was to be lost to the unfolding of an irresistible idea, to see the black thread spooling out from the end of her scratchy silver nib and coiling into words. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I threaded my way through the Outside Cats milling on the back porch and headed for the laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “So you will have blue threads,” her father went on, “while you wait for your plants to come to life.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She took her time with every bone, every strap of muscle and thread of sinew her fingers could find, mapping the landscape of him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In the falling dusk they scrambled out of the pit and slowly threaded their way through the dead land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the further side was a steep brown bank, threaded by a winding path; and behind that the tall mountains climbed, shoulder above shoulder, and peak beyond peak, into the fading sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If they’ve got an inch or two to work with, the hairdresser will wrap sprigs of it in black thread so it stands up in little spikes, like Mama Boanda Number Two’s. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t do anything obvious, but perhaps he could find a loose thread, or a long splinter from the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I went over and over my life to this point, complicating the threads with my fingers, knotting everything. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the minute I pulled out the piece of marked silk thread, the lechuzas launched themselves off the roof and flew into the barn, wailing and screeching. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “You use the threads to remind us of how they looked.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Julie had her nose pressed tightly to the window, for she could see the long threads that spoke of a clearing. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread—90 cents for one measly skein—the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The last thread that joined them to the world was broken on the sixth month of pregnancy when they received a letter that obviously was not from the wise Catalonian. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Lovely,” said the princess as she took the thread from Mig. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He wore a black velvet coat with hammers embroidered on the sleeves in silver thread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Shuttles holding the weft thread hurtled themselves like beasts of prey through the tall forests of warp threads, and beaters slammed the threads tightly into place. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There were dozens of them, ranging from very small, no bigger than a spool of thread, up to some so heavy we could hardly move them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s customers often had to spend half an hour unsnarling the rust-red yarn from the mud-brown, or trying to fish out the end of a thread from a tangled wad. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I washed my bleeding shoulder in the creek, tucked the torn threads of my sweater back into the hole they had come out of, and set out for my tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In it are two colors of thread, red and yellow, and a pair of scissors. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Once I was dressed in my new maintenance-tech threads, I carefully removed the flash drive from its expansion slot and pocketed it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They called their servants to bring more threads and silks, and the woman in blue requested a new needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She stood a moment, clutching the spool of thread and muttering to herself. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Stitch marks and stray threads pocked the inside where she had sewn in our valuables. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “You haven’t given me enough gold thread to finish the sari,” she complained to Mr. Das. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He had grabbed at the ghost of a necklace, the ghost of some trinket or thread. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Arm threaded the razor wire into a long curved needle like the ones furniture makers used to sew upholstery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Jenna yanked the thread so hard it came off and made a tiny hole in the hem of her shirt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “That smile and that wave was part of his bluff. They’re all alike, those fellows. He hasn’t a thread of a case to bring now. Baker’s evidence would squash it.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers’ tunics were unbuttoned and their belts were threaded through their epaulets. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were full of holes that’d been stitched up with rough thread, all up and down their sides. And with a pinky missing on each hand. They were seven then.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z In truth, I dreaded going far from the road lest I lose the muddy thread that connected me to the only life I knew. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then he set about pulling the small black threads from his skin, pressing down with the flat of his thumb. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He threaded his way out between the stopped cars and leaned engagingly on the sill of our open window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I tore out the knee of my pants and had to make do with the wrong color thread for mending. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Modeled after one made by the famous German painter Albrecht Dürer, and depicted in Vincent's art manuals, it’s an open rectangle made of wood, strung with horizontal and vertical threads to make a grid. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the 588th, people embroidered their foot cloths with flowers—using blue thread pulled out of their regulation men’s underwear again! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I start another subject thread on the wall: Guys to Stay Away Front. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Between them I put ten olivella shells, which were no longer than the tip of my little finger, and threaded them all together with sinew. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I had carried some old firecracker fuse with me and carefully threaded it up into the nozzle until I could feel it stick in the zincoshine compound. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I blew my nose, threaded the tubes around my ears, and put the nubbins back in. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As the Singer moved toward the stage, the folds of the robe glistened in the torchlight; the colors of the threaded scenes glowed in their subtlety. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the threadmaster’s breath in his ear as he worked at tightening the thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It was about the shape of a corncob, only a little larger and hollowed out so that it could carry a bobbin or quill of weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The refutation of the supposed antipathy between garlic and magnets was like a loose thread on a sweater: pull on it and the whole thing would unravel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He dug into the dirt again, pulling up another sapling, gathering another thread of magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I strip a tough vine of its leaves, thread it through the hollow center, and tie the spile securely to my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Paler than even the white jade tofu she had eaten for dinner, the paper seemed to have a light of its own, dimming the gold threads of the pouch that held it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The spiders started spitting out strands of metal thread, trying to tie us down. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Fernanda was present several times and did not see her, in spite of the fact that she was so real, so human, and on one occasion asked of Amaranta the favor of threading a needle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She held the new gold threads to the window and examined the subtle shifts in hue, choosing just the right ones for the repair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were filled with rolled white threads in many different widths and textures. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tied one end of the rope to the boat, threading it through a gap between some boards near the top. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And so he began, immediately and without despair, the hard work of maneuvering the spool of thread down the narrow dungeon steps. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z My sewing machine was on the floor nearby, and an open box full of all my other supplies—many spools of thread, pins and a pincushion, envelopes of needles—sat beside it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And as the male lion finished, he lifted his paw, to reveal a flattened line of red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The last sound she heard was Fenoglio's pen scribbling over the paper, writing word after word as fast as a weaver's shuttle turning black threads into colorfully patterned cloth.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The fourteen mice sat around a piece of wood balanced on spools of thread and listened in horror while Despereaux's father related the story of what Furlough had seen. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z In order to heal a family, the next generation, or society, she argues, “It’s vital to make the connecting thread between the past and the present.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He threaded his fingers through his bangs and tugged. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Since it had been a year since that meeting with Coach Mustilli, I was now holding on to my confidence by a thread. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then she leaned her stick against the fireplace wall, sat down, and picked up the needle that was waiting, threaded with green, attached to the fabric. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The threads unraveled and sank to the bottom of the tub. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Behind him, I see Nicasia thread her arm through Locke’s and whisper something to him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Saliva curled around the edges of his mouth and spittle threads hung down and glistened like spider threads in the sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Moushumi blushes, glances at the price tag dangling from a thread on one side of her face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was an existence that hung by a thread. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Now she draws with a needle and thread, little knotted rosebuds, tulips made of silk thread. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And there was Despereaux Tilling, covered in flour, looking back at them, the telltale red thread still around his neck like a thin trail of blood. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He had taped the clear tube of a ballpoint pen to the threaded end of the needle, and on top of that he had fixed a tennis ball. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Her hair is loose—long chestnut curls that fly behind her like a capelet, a few strands braided with gleaming silver thread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She pulled herself away from Kaede, feeling the link between them stretching like a gossamer thread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone’s gown was of bright silk or brocade, and many were embroidered with gold and silver threads and lined in fur, or stitched with sequins and pearls. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Her cheeks were threaded with a web of fine veins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Swinging her spinnerets into position, she attached her thread and then dropped down. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Looking now at the magnificent robe, she knew that her sparse collection, a few leftover colored threads that her mother had allowed her to use for her own, was not adequate at all. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya still didn’t have the ability to see the threads that were the key to performing magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He went back to work, and I watched the ground, rather than the phone, as near-invisible thread pulled the hole’s edges together tight with a puff of smoke. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Blue thread, in curling waves, marching across the top of the apron. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She snuggled closer and threaded her fingers through Jen’s, holding fast. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “But I had stored a few things in the clearing so they missed the burning. My basket of threads, and some scraps of cloth. And look at this, Matt.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I finished up the last of my thread. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “What have we here?” said the one-eared rat to the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It felt like a long while before Faith reached over and threaded her fingers through mine. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He drooled with delight at Shirley’s foolish struggle to thread him into the chair. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He threaded one of his long legs through the opening, then hefted himself into the room. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She was losing the joy she had once felt when the bright-colored threads took shape in her hands, when the patterns came to her and were her own. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Corporal Whitcomb continued, biting the chaplain’s black thread apart contemptuously with a loud snap and buttoning on his shirt. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The grain was not enough to live on, and there were other things to buy, soap and milk and thread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Nailer could tell she wasn’t impressed, but even he was glad they had Tool with them, someone to protect them as they threaded between tightly packed shacks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Yishan grunted with satisfaction and began to pull, the noose tightening around the moon until the delicate thread looked like a thin scratch of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Dobrynya artfully yanked a magic thread with only his thumb, and a ball of water intercepted the axe, knocking it off its path. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z To Taran’s ear, the melody had its own words, weaving a supple thread among the rising notes. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was from her stained hands that the colored threads used for rare ornamentation were produced. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Showed Helena how to sing while she threaded string around her fingers, making patterns that matched the song. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Other studies suggest that threads in the eye can indicate personality tendencies, and that maybe eyes are a kind of window to the soul after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s time to go back to the sixteenth century and pick up the threads of the developments in astronomy and the mechanical sciences which followed on from the work of Copernicus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z When she opened her mouth, she spat out several teeth, which fell to the floor, and a thread of bloody saliva trickled down her chin and neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In a fury he hewed at them with his sword, but the thread that he struck did not break. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I started as a thread cutter, and now I’m a sewing machine operator.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Dustfinger pretended to be preoccupied with pulling a loose thread from his coat sleeve. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She could remember what had gone on just before the period of unconsciousness, could pick up a conversation, the threads of it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the buttons were coming loose, and when she unbuttoned the first one, it hung down on a single thread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Those ugly memories wove through his thoughts during the first months like bad threads through a carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He did the second suture; she tied it off and cut the thread. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There’s just this thread of anticipation that I can’t seem to quell. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And without waiting for an answer, she quickly produced a length of silk thread and attached the end of it to the peach stem. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the thread with both hands and opened my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Though she was barely an inch over five feet tall, her arms were massive with thick, knotted biceps and her forearms were threaded with protruding veins and hard sinew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was as if heavy clothes, embroidered with glowing threads of gold and red, had been tossed down by a giant or a god, and were just floating there, on top of the water.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He saw as if his eyes were still open wide the bones, the tufts of hair, the knots of thread, the despair. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The crystal beads looked like paste now, and where Ana had torn the bodice, ordinary threads hung loose. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Liam let his head slide down to rest against his other arm, threading his fingers through mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When Theseus lifted himself up from that terrific struggle, the ball of thread lay where he had dropped it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After Nailer and Nita were nearly thrown down into the train gap, they rode with their arms threaded through the ladders. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, as if it were no big deal, she grabbed the jacket, put the button in her mouth, and used her teeth to nibble through the thread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At the forward hatch he quickly unhooked the caught thread and dropped the hatch cover in place—it had to be fastened tightly from the inside— and stood to move back to the stem. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenna wrapped an unraveling thread from her T-shirt around her index finger. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He didn’t move like he was pulling threads—the most he had done was whip his tail around a bit—and she wondered how he was creating the column. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The thing I remember most is the friction of the thread as it tunneled through my skin. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Unlike my embroidery, which came from my head and heart, the threading of tiny glass beads grew tiresome. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the stitches, up close, black thread surrounded by swollen purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Annoyed, she walked down the hallway to the main office and threaded her way between desks to the back of the room. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then she pulled the thread away from her skin, rip-ping the hairs out neatly, her eyes watering from the needles of pain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They tugged at the loose threads in his sweater. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I pull open the back seat door, hurl in the car seat, pluck Hector into it, and thread the seat belt through it as quick as I can. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z A thread of silver in a tapestry of night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Granny’s shop had once been a tidy place, where each ball of yarn and spool of thread had its spot in the cubbyholes that lined the walls. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He followed it back through the glinting threads of the old Librarian’s life. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her collar, he can see, is separating from the rest of the coat; threads are giving way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, her fingers stroked the smooth threads of a crimson butterfly Pinmei hadn’t noticed before. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, seeing him again, she felt something within her bending toward him as though drawn on threads pulled taut by his hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From the overarching metal frame crowning each machine, wooden harnesses, carrying hundreds of warp threads drawn from a massive beam at the back of each loom, clanked up and down. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He crawled down into the maintenance compartment, threading through the gears. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, as she was about to thread her needle, she paused. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She was standing in the middle of a verdant field, one blossom threaded through her fingers, another threaded in her long, coiling hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His voice sounds small, threaded into a wire, barely recognizable through the holes of the receiver. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was fiddling with a loose thread on her uniform, wrapping it around and around her finger. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They were all standing there with confused looks on their faces when I appeared in front of them, resplendent in my new threads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Silkworm and Miss Spider, after they had both been taught to make nylon thread instead of silk, set up a factory together and made ropes for tightrope walkers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I’m chanting to myself, “Magic thread, magic thread,” and I’m staring at Mom so hard that my eyes are almost aching. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z There in the corner, worked in faded thread, initials had magically appeared on the fraying hem: M-T-L- Suddenly, Mrs. Weidenbach appeared, gripping the preacher’s stovepipe hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I picked at a loose thread on his bedspread. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But this was no longer a faint thread in the air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Countless red threads covered the ground like intricate lace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t talk much, but the old silent thread of twinship seemed in place again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hordes of people passed by, threading through one another with desperate faces. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Ropes have been tied to the crate gates, threaded through the fence to our side of the enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m in aqua robes threaded with gold, stepping through trapezoidal doors into the sun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Redemption hovered on the outskirts of the picture they made, uncertainty threading through his body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And Hamlet, as if he followed me, picked up the thread of my thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At Christmas time, Jerusalem and Bethlehem felt crisp and cool, flickering with candles in windows, buttery yellow streetlights, and music floating from shops—thin threads of light and sound. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A silver string had been threaded through it so it hung like a huge bead on a necklace. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z While her mother slept restlessly, Kira sorted the dyed threads in her basket and began to weave them into the cloth scrap with a bone needle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now my English teacher was insisting that I explore the two worlds, that of the books I read and that of my writing, and examine them for common threads. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Gisa is going to save us one day, with nothing more than needle and thread. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z With a small knife, the old woman cut a sleeve of the boy's shirt and pulled a delicate red thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “You dressed like me! You took them away! You left me crying! You lost the thread!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I’d reached the end of my thread so took a few locking stitches. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “What do you think you’re going to wear?” she asks, threading her hands through her hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “It’s not even about Hudson, really,” he says, threading our fingers. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The tree right next to her window was a wilderness of shining threads, as if every branch, every twig, was spun from ice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A spider can produce several kinds of thread. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They had to thread cautiously between sinking ships and patches of drifting wildfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, on February 4, a black Ford threaded through the Imadas’ fields, making for the house of cedar slats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Once he was free, everything would hang by a thread. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "We have reached the end of our thread and I will now leave." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Nok silently threaded the gap between the crowd and lunged at him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The water hums, whispers, and spins white threads before pooling at the bottom. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounds like Miss Hilly’s barely hanging on by a thread. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Instead of white floors, this level had a black stone floor with threads of red glinting in it. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When I nod, she pulls me closer, threading her fingers through my hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z A column of water shot out of the stream, and Ivan yanked his magic threads with the magic metal on the ends of his staff. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She is a vague figure, oftenest depicted at her spinning-wheel, where the threads she spins are of gold, but what she spins them for is a secret. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan reached up and grabbed its threads, bringing it to a halt in the air before it hit any of them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He put his right shoulder against the spool of thread and pushed it forward again. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He ran the knot down the thread and pulled it taut and cut off the silk with the scissors from the kit and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He hid behind the spool of thread as Cook took the candle from the stove and held it up high. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Iron rod threaded through three rusted loops, old mortise lock with a rusty cam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes she did not know that she had lost it, until she tried to take a stitch and found that she held only a long piece of thread. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside lay two bedrolls, a pipe and tobacco pouch, and a shirt dropped in the middle of mending, the needle still threaded and stuck in the fabric. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As they slowly got the hang of it, their bodies began to move together, threading the board down the familiar path as one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A mouse with red thread, ” boomed the voice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Instead, she snipped the loose threads from the bloomers and folded them with the other clothes she had made for Muff’s baby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Some rugs from Isfahan even have silk and gold thread in the paisley designs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Beyond, villages appeared, with dwellings of all kinds; curving stitches of smoke from fires were threaded with dull purplish grays. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child, Hideo didn’t have the silver streak in his hair or the few silver threads sprinkled throughout his dark lashes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I managed to thread the needle between Rutherford and Trouvelot nicely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Around a peeled twig Ten Snow had wound a long length of the finest sinew thread to use in beading. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A tiny thread of fear began to wind through me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z ‘Are you the new serving maid? Have you brought me my thread?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z All the while, his bones would lie at the bottom of the pit, with Gulliver’s little bones next to him, so small that they’d look like thread. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She stitches flowers made of fire, each one a beautiful flame of thread against oily black silk. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “I might be able to . . .” Then she deftly threaded a needle. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Elizabeth frowns down at her spool of green thread. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So neatly and finely made were the threads that he had to turn it a dozen times before the two parts fell open. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I, too, suffer unwanted dreams,” I murmur, feeling a thread of sympathy draw me to the suffering girl. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She has to open her mind, she says, so that when the clues start coming, she can see the thread that joins them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It was closed, but I could still feel the thread of stories inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He threaded the pen back through her fingers, gently. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed the black bands on my sleeves, the tiny embroidered peonies growing from curlicues of gold thread. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She was able to close her eyes and simply feel the needle move through the fabric, pulled by the urgent, vibrating threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of her cold eyes and perpetual scowl, her unwillingness to see me as anything more than a pair of hands, fingers holding a needle and thread. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One fragile musical thread did survive the collapse of Greco-Roman civilisation, given impetus by what seemed at first to be insignificant events in a troublesome frontier territory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ivan’s mother reached one hand out and pulled an invisible thread of magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I curtsied slightly, conscious of the few threads barely holding me together. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She spins the red thread for the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Its spine hung only by a couple of threads. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She uses a dry, tough thread for foundation lines, and she uses a sticky thread for snare lines—the ones that catch and hold insects. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Dimple picked awkwardly at a loose thread on her sleeve. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His neck was thick, powerful, and cruelly muscled; his arms were long, athletic to the point of being simian, threaded with veins, and covered with reddish hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Voldemort were both being raised into the air, their wands still connected by that thread of shimmering golden light. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her eyes were downcast, and her hair, woven in gold thread, covered her breasts, but her round hip and thigh were naked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Gunters had filled countless message board threads arguing about the meaning of the painting, about what the black dragon signified or whether it signified anything at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He stood up then, silently; and crouched low, he threaded his way through the brush toward the road. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words were a thread of condensation, fading quickly against the glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “If only someone could practice stealing threads from you, Ivan. So if the Nightingale tried to steal yours, you’d know how to stop it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Harry lost the thread of his thoughts for a moment and Hedwig did nothing to help him retrieve it, but continued to sit with her head under her wing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The frayed threads, like delicate hairs of a newborn child, caught the dim light from the doorway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She had six copper pennies, five rocks, the geography book, and two spools of black thread—heavyweight No. 30. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the cars crawling up Chicken Street, threading through the horde of hawkers and pedestrians, honking at children and donkeys who wouldn’t move. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Basmu serpent thrashed desperately as more and more golden threads wove over its body, locking it down segment by segment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But now that I had found the thread of reality, how could I hold on? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that everyone knows about Mother’s cancer, it is as if she’s let go of the few threads that kept her upright. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She rocked quietly for a few minutes, picking a thread on her knitted shawl. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks out at the water to where they’re building the Bay Bridge—two toothpicks held together by a thread of steel. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They made braided bracelets for me with embroidery thread and beads, but I wouldn’t take them unless they made some for Cassie, too. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Charlotte decided to use her dry thread for writing the new message. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Around eleven-thirty, Charley Bloom threaded his way through the members of the Senile Brigade still trading gun stories on the porch and entered the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like some fairytale tailor, he threaded the end through the maze, dipping and doodling through openings the way he squiggled a football through a defense. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to take metal threads away from my da sometimes, as a joke.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Our neighbor, Mrs. Feringeld, bought one and framed it in the pieces from an old thread box, then hung it over her table. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Like the miller’s daughter—the one who sat at night in a straw-filled room, thrilled with the secret power Rumpelstiltskin had given her: to see golden thread stream from her very own shuttle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Each doll was about as big as my thumbnail, with cardboard limbs wrapped in colorful thread made to look like clothes. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I spent a few minutes scanning the most recent message threads, taking in the latest gunter news and rumors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I put it on and it feels like a cool thread, tying me forever to Mama Ya-Ya. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z So, of course I click on the thread to see what Isabella is sad about. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z With a piece of thread he hung it up inside the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Their report was only off by a hair; the Kongo people made remarkable textiles by beating the fibrous bark of certain trees, or weaving thread from the raffia palm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And with that, the bronze threads wrapped around Minos’s face, making him a bronze mummy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He gnawed off a length of thread and used it to tie the needle around Despereaux’s waist. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Your maa is angry with me over the earrings and would never give me cloth for the quilt or money to buy thread.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He picked out a thread that looked thin but strong. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pulled at threads invisible to Anya, and the smell coming out of the pot changed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Trying to extinguish the spark of the rest—the merely incorrigible, those holding on to civilization by a thread—itself feels like a monstrosity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing so near that she could see the fine thread detail on his jacket, and smelled not perfume, but horses and iron. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It took every effort to ignore it, to focus instead on the elusive thread of energy that had come so easily to her when she had seen that purple flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There was a loose thread; she longed to pluck it out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Making the best of things, he took apart a walking stick made of whalebone discs threaded on a metal rod, and used those as poker chips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I had hoped the dead woman on the side of the road might have something—thread, tea, even a clean handkerchief. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She tore a fiber from the skin, threaded her needle, and began to stitch the mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days ago, climbing on a spire of rock, she had spied water to the south, a slender thread that glittered briefly as the sun was going down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Several days before, the worm had done a curious thing: it had wrapped itself up in a blanket of threads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I made it as soft and silky as I possibly could. I spun it with gossamer. That’s a much better quality thread than the one I use for my own web.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that carried information in a coded and compressed form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now she was going to meet the fingers that knotted the thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She drew out pins and thread and with little tucks here and there stuffed in the loose materials, then filled the toes of the shoes with tissue paper, until everything fit. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to grab those threads of fear over the army, fray them away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He tipped out the plastic jar of hardware and sorted out a bolt to thread into the fitting of the junction and then tightened it down. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Leo slipped the firewood into the pouch and pulled it closed with a tie of bronze thread. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The constellations glittered in the black sky, a star streaking across it like a shimmering loose thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Then spinning as they ever did, twirling the distaff and twisting the thread of destiny, they sang, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Weyand admitted the situation in Vietnam looked dire, but held out a thin thread of possibility: maybe the South Vietnamese government could be propped up with more financial help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Her hair is like gray thread, her mouth soft, her face wrinkled and sweet. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I do not wanna be that random person on Twitter, going into threads and dropping Dat Cloud links that nobody asked for. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then she typed back to Tab on the other thread: Love you too. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He could see mountains now, their peaks white with snow, and the silver thread of rivers in dark woods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Sitting on the prayer rug with her legs curled beneath her, as the thread of dawn appears against the horizon. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s more about how Papi and I didn’t watch Lolo—which was Abuela’s main thread when she saw his blistered ears this afternoon. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They lost the thread of his tale and shifted uneasily, looking aside at one another. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z About its feet there flowed, as a thread of silver, the stream that issued from the dale; upon its brow they caught, still far away, a glint in the rising sun, a glimmer of gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z For a moment she almost lost the thread of the story, stumbled over a word, and re-read it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The approach of the elections was the thread that led him once more to the skein of subversion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She lost her voice and a thread of cold sweat ran down the path of her spine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She looked out at the twilight garden and felt a thin but bright thread of excitement within her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her finger slipped on the thread, yanking it down too hard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He threaded a needle with black thread, handed it to me, and pointed at the gash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He fumbled around in it for silk thread but, unable to find any, decided that cotton would be fine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s all right, then,” quipped Holly, threading her way through the mass of wires. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “She weaves and spins thread,” the boy said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was part of Kira’s learning to name and sort the threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She dreaded the sudden appearance of a thread of water squirting from the glove, the telltale of a leak, a sign that her life was over. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Animal magnetism,” said Ron gloomily, pulling stray threads out of his cuffs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s a spice that comes from pulling tiny threads from the middle of a flower. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Next morning, we found bits of fabric and threads and even a handkerchief caught on the thorns. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on the edge of the chair, his ears burning, and gave his order to the waiter with a mere thread of a voice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained how to wrap the thread around the needle holder and use the forceps to make a knot. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z These letters are the last thread connecting me to you, as strong and invisible as the thread on a spiderweb. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I tried to recover a thread that might lead me back to my old, bright salesmanship. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In any case, to return to my thread, you will appreciate I was not unperturbed at the prospect of telling Miss Kenton I was about to dismiss two of her maids. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I emerged from the store a few minutes later dressed in my new threads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Doc placed some felt material in a bunch of different colors on his worktable, then gave us each a needle and thread. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a tiny white thread of ego—cold and afraid. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And when the doctor sewed the two flaps of skin together with needle and thread, Alex flinched but never looked away. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Pinmei continued to stare, the small figures like two stitches of embroidery thread on a vast tapestry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I was to follow the outline and stitch the flowers in thread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Salvador threaded his way among the trucks with Lupita following him until they found Bartolo smoking at the rear of a large green truck with board sides. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When she was still a tyke, her mother had taught her to use a needle, to pull it through woven fabric and create a pattern with colored threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not certain, but she thought she recognized a thread or two of this other magic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But he must have been able to see sound threads coming from them anyway. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She pointed to the stalled loom and the broken warp thread that must be tied. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z All the threads of his past spun around her, faster and faster the longer she looked, but that one gleamed more brightly than the others. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z At night, once the goat’s milk was exhausted, Xan gathered the gossamer threads of starlight on her fingers, and the child ate gratefully. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A long thread of silence keeps us connected. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It hangs from the finest thread in empty space, a decorative object, as interesting for the way in which it catches the light as for its geometrical form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She looped a piece of thread, knotted into a circle between her index fingers and thumbs, and ran the double strand across her forehead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I kiss Momma good-bye, and soon she’s in the sewing room, threading the needle. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z They complained about the pillows being too hard or too soft, or that there wasn’t enough space around the sinks for their toiletries, or that the bedskirt had a loose thread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Around the room, one by one, they told him they were convinced it was a thread virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had come about almost magically, as if the threads had spoken to her, or sung. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, incredibly, she saw something that looked like a thread of light hanging down in the middle of the empty street. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He retreated again, but the old man followed him—as if they were linked by an invisible thread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z You can see white threads in the shape of a bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the forums, there weren’t any news updates, but Emily did see a thread under the “Garrison Griswold” category titled “What if...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He was at home in Aunty Ifeoma’s house; he knew which chair had a protruding nail and could pull a thread off your clothes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I want you to bring the lady some needles and thread.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I lower my hands as the others lower their guns, and walk into the foyer, passing through the center of the crowd like a piece of thread through the eye of a needle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He yawned and curled up next to Prosper, who was struggling with a needle and thread over the holes in his brother’s pants. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The roar of a vacuum drifted down, threading through the faded drilling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When a warp thread snapped, instead of instantly hitting the lever to stall the loom, she threw her apron over her head and burst into tears. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She flips a switch at the bottom of the box, and a thread of blue light stretches across the gap between the teeth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “I wrapped the phone cord around my neck,” I said, picking at a loose thread on my jeans. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z That one small thing, that tiny thread hooked on a screwhead, saved his life. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Teddy Sanders swept a rogue thread off his otherwise immaculate blazer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I walk quickly, threading my way to the most crowded place I can find. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart dresses and jackets and pants; she wound the yarn into balls and the thread onto spools, and people bought them to use in making new clothes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Several times I thought I’d lose the thread of the story, and only sheer effort kept it going. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She picks at the threads of her carpet. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When I rode along the Kinshasa Highway as a boy, it was a dusty, unpaved thread that wandered through the Rift Valley toward Lake Victoria, carrying not much traffic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, he was glad to have new threads, since his old ones were pretty smelly and burned up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The little girl held the thread of Sarai’s soul, and so she as good as held the thread to his—and to his power, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Two adult elves, one with a flute and one singing, threaded their way through, the singer occasionally rocking a group of hammocks gently. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the projectionist got the film threaded, and the show started. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He began threading Rosemont through the field, cutting in and out, picking off horses one by one, talking in his horse’s ear as clumps of dirt cracked into his face. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the piece of silk thread and realized I was still clutching it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to,” I say, playing with a loose thread on the yellow sheet covering the couch. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Alex doesn’t say anything, letting the silence stretch in a thin thread between them before he cuts it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Three silver beads, strung onto a short length of red thread, plopped carelessly on top of the rest of Zane’s loot in the suitcase. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Thursday is for polishing floors and sucking rugs, minding the antique ones with a hand broom so they don’t thread. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was wearing a silk vest over his shirt with dragons embroidered on it in red thread, and he was smoking a long white clay pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z An invisible thread tugs me toward sleep, but I want to be awake. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z These Jethro was to trade for calico and thread for Jenny—and mittens for himself, if there was change due him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trying to hold open a section of the net for us, but wherever he touched it, the golden threads started to wrap around his hands. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Far behind them a dark smoke rose in thin curling threads. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had hoped that perhaps the threads would already be dyed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d slurp all the stitching thread of his mouth and nose. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A striding huntsman had been worked in scarlet thread upon the breast of the fat boy's fur-trimmed surcoat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was a heavy thing, a dozen maester's collars threaded around and through each other and ornamented with gemstones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We stood near the side table, which was loaded with mountains of food, from a whole roast hart with ivy threaded through its antlers to butter cookies as small and lacy as snowflakes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She often works in mysterious ways, organizes and orchestrates things he never sees coming until all the threads come together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And then to hear Julie add: “My thread is missing, too.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I bit off a length of thread and slid it through the eye of a needle as Eliza talked. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time one spark fell on one small hair of dry bark—almost a thread of bark—and seemed to glow a bit brighter before it died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z None could live in the tiny creek that remained, threading its way through a bare, hot land where no shade remained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a dark maroon silk shawl with beaded fringes and edges embroidered with gold thread. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “You have to knot the end of the thread and start underneath.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw a fine black thread and pulled it from the trilled paper. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning light its color looks brighter, like it’s threaded with gold. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We looked at each other, trembling on the brink of a quarrel, bitterness parting the threads of forbearance one by one, but while a few still held, suddenly, the outward semblance fell away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When you leave the grocery, if you walk catty-cornered across the grass-grown lot, threading your way among the great rusty pipes thrown out of the canneries, you will see a path worn in the weeds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I backed up, but the threads consumed me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The woman handed me a needle and thread. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z My excitement tangles with a thread of sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They threaded through wrecked cargo rooms, climbing over jumbled trash to reach the doors that were now upside down and above them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z X threaded his fingers, once, through his dirty hair, then shielded his eyes against the light again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z For a better view of Room 5, he bit a careful peephole—one thread down and one thread across—in Ryan’s pocket. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Now, without instruction or practice, without hesitancy, her fingers felt the way to twist and weave and stitch the special threads together to create designs rich and explosive with color. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to show him where you tie up the threads and said, “It’s just missing a shuttle and then it be ready.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The thread — which was really now more like a thick silk rope — seemed to have divided itself into a long strange web, reinforced with bamboo stalks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A piping bag lay on the table beside it, trailing a thread of red icing. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z We went; following the superintendent’s guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment; it contained a good fire, and looked cheerful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The elevator doors open, and the wind hits us immediately, still warm but woven with threads of winter cold. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Trying to waste the most time possible, Amaranta ordered some rough flax and spun the thread herself. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z So too it was painful to go out by night... a tailor could see to thread his needle without a lamp. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Ivan says he sees threads in the air, and I don’t see anything.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Another field crossed—a lane threaded—and there were the courtyard walls—the back offices: the house itself, the rookery still hid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They would trickle out in dribs and drabs, memories surfacing suddenly, prompted by the merest thread, the way memories often do. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This went on and on, until I lost track of the thread that held it all together and sat and listened in amazement to the feat of memory I was witnessing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Bandit stood up and threaded her hands into her sleeves as Grandfather did. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “No,” he said, looking thoughtfully at the thread of smoke that curled from the burnt end. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At one point his words slid together to form one word—sounds as confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man put a needle and thread to a dead badger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Abruptly it was dark, and Herbie had no idea how to thread the intricate maze to home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To give myself something to do while I was thinking through my situation, I brought out my cloak along with needle and thread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The golden thread on the pale blue fabric still shimmered full of promise, and Bo had to touch the golden stars at least once every day. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a thread of destiny. If we are destined to see the Old Man of the Moon, it will stretch to reach him.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Gox zipped off the bridge and began to snap threads with her jaws. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She stood watching me, her long gray hair caught in the wind like wisps of silver thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Malcolm picked out the largest, and then saw something about the screw thread. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, then reached for the Story Box, pulling on the thread that connected tales from all over the world, and the lid opened, spilling bright golden light into the flooding room. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The threaded cloth was warm and familiar in her hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like her I unravel my story, and the longer the thread, the less there is left to tell. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’d fashioned a needle from a fish bone and stripped plant roots down to a stiff, thin thread. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Surprised, I almost told him the sum was too much, but one of the other women came up to him just then to ask for thread the color of the fruit of a mango. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I pick at a thread on the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But he never saw his body break the thread; he saw only the face of Mars Bar, straining, gasping, unbelieving, losing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Young as she was, Mr. Das entrusted her with embroidering threads of real gold. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Their fingers brushed together against the hot metal, and the thread between them drew tight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The woman nodded easily and beckoning him she threaded her way between the crowded tables, and Wang Lung followed her at a distance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux screamed, but his scream was threaded with laughter. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what sacred cow I had bumped, but it was better to find out than to hang like a thread over an open fire. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All these foolish inconsequent threads hanging upon one another, because Maxim had killed Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Kira had stood silently, embarrassed but proud, as the guardian examined the threading she had done. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When he moved his fingers, though, he wasn’t pulling threads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Spider hung off the top handle of his backpack, threading their safety line. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As I was about to hand the brush back to August, I saw a long, black, wavy hair threaded through the bristles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The unraveled black thread of the embroidered turtle stretched between them and melted away into the dark sky like a thin wisp of smoke. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Blogs and video-logs, and the online arguments in comment threads and chat rooms, have spawned new tropes and figures, and new uses for the old ones. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Horse hair is always better than thread for sewing up a wound,” she said. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The cocoon, which was prized for its silk thread. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then most of them threaded their way through the cattle and dashed on, leaving two behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Against a black background they swim, a long white silken thread spinning itself out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Home was my past, connected by gossamer threads to where I was now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Frantic, I hit the back arrow at the top of the touch screen and scroll down to our thread of messages. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He had soft, white, fat hands and a plump face and wore a white guayabera shot with gold threads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “And everything in it? My frame? Did they burn my threading frame?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With needle and thread provided by the Garretts, he sewed the blanket closed around the assassin’s corpse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A month later she returned with a sack, the contents of which she never discussed, which she added to her geography book and the rocks and the two spools of thread. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My clothes are fireproof as well, even the thread. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was dark, we went inside and kept threading, stopping only to hunt for any beads that slipped away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “But you are the one I remember best. For the Augurs dream the future: all outcomes, all possibilities. And you are woven through every dream. A thread of silver in a tapestry of night.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She flung open the drawers of the bureau and the door of the closet, filled with saris of every imaginable texture and shade, brocaded with gold and silver threads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The next time he moved, he was certainly pulling a thread. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “That’s the way with this boy!” exclaimed my sister, pointing me out with her needle and thread, and shaking her head at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z While the pot simmered and the steam hung above it like a gray spirit, she took out a needle and thread and mended a hole in her old mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m the snip of red thread caught on a twig. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw what she was pointing at: not a flailing girl in the water but a fat thread of woven hemp trailing up from it, barely visible in all the chaos. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She looked up at Josiah and pulled at a blue thread hanging from the sleeve of her dress. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes traveled along the cracks in the sky, weaving overhead like thin black threads. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Fenrir watched the gods take one end of Gleipnir and thread it through a stone as big as a mountain and fasten it under the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He had seen the strands of magic skittering this way and that and launching in long threads over the tops of the trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Sometimes her stories are interrupted by calls to prayer or work, but the next day she easily picks up the thread again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The little one's hair is a dark cloud of coils and glitter, complete with metallic threads reminiscent of lightning streaks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He had been trying to find the secret reservoirs of the thread viruses for years. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew he was back in Weep, partly because Azareen would never have come back without him, and partly because he flickered through the dreams of all the others like a shimmering thread connecting them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mosca gazed dreamily up at the curtain, which was glittering in the candlelight as if it were covered in golden spider's threads. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She always noticed when our threads became tangled or work had to be ripped out and done over. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In the forums, there weren’t any news updates, but Emily did see a thread under the “Garrison Griswold” category titled “What if...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He wore white breeches and boots and a white shirt with white lace at the throat, and the fabric of his clothes gleamed as if there were light trapped within its threads. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I thread my hands into his hair and kiss him without thinking, and The Sims’ music and chatter fades into the background, not nearly as loud as the thud of Ben’s heartbeat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z If you looked at them from one angle, the threads were invisible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow night, as soon as Dr. Schultz and the others leave, we’ll open your cages, and you can follow the thread with us to get out. After that you’re on your own.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The razor wire was threaded around a lock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I do not dare try to move him; I have the feeling that the least disturbance, even a loud noise, might snap the thread. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem like she was doing anything but spinning wool into gray thread. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z This time I held the thread tightly against my chest. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then he blinked, and the entire greenhouse began to glimmer with golden threads of light, swirling and shifting and moving with the slow growth of the trees, the upward inching of flowers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Kira remembered it: the bright splatters of blood in crimson threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There seems to be through it all some thread of continuity.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A wise person will only be left with threads, but their shoes should be made for endless walking in search of a better life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “There’s something else. Something that belongs with the thread. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z On a shelf behind the counter is a basket of yellow stars and spools of thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the six pennies, the book, the rocks, and the thread, she walked back to town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z As they threaded their way among the hideous bodies of the orcs each step became more difficult. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Another argumentative thread, which began in 1815 and then ran throughout the remainder of the correspondence, concerned the French Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She had taken the threads of that moment and changed them, reversed the trajectory of the bullet so that it wasn’t coming for her—but for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was drawing his fingers along threads in the air, rolling them between his fingertips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He tried hard to pick up the threads of talk. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z That feeling—it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A face plain as a clay saucer and no gold threads woven in her sari,” Tanu whispered. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the singing begins again, a thread of life in the infinite black, and I reach for it and hold on as tight as I can. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They reached into the basket again and again, changed threads in a motion so fast he could barely follow it, and the needle entered the cloth, and entered the cloth, and entered the cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She took the spool of thread from Louise and made her way up the golden stairs to the princess’s room, talking to herself as she went. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I can see why Daddy is hanging on to his thread of hope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For the first time, her fingers did not direct the threads, but followed where they led. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice I walked into a spider’s web, feeling the fine, transparent threads across my face, and I liked them there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was folded, ironed, with “A.B.” monogrammed on the front in silvery threads. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura began, snapping on the overly bright overhead light, scaring off whatever shy passion Yoyo, with the blue thread of her writing, had just begun coaxing out of a labyrinth of feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It’s a slightly padded tunic stitched with metallic thread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So that they could capture her gift: her skill with the threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something happens when I work with the threads. They seem to know things on their own, and my fingers simply follow.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a turquoise sweat suit, the sleeves and legs cut off, threads hanging like a blue-green spiderweb. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z You’ll feel free to ad-lib in the confidence that you can return to your thread. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I feed her the right words, but she suspects they’re threaded with hooks. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Try this on and don’t be vulgar,” Mother said as she broke the thread with her teeth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The red thread of death?” repeated Despereaux in a small voice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z So della Porta simply tucked the thread back into place and pretended there was nothing wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then she held out a little bunch of flowers, a dozen or so anemones bound with a cotton thread, and began to speak in a rapid, nervous voice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the footpath that led past the warren, bright threads of light—watery, a mirage—trickled and glittered across the shortest, smoothest grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Something was pushing at the top end of it, and in a moment the threads there split apart and a dark furry knob emerged. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We can start slow by following each other on Instagram again and keeping the group chat thread alive. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Our sewing supplies were low again, and we needed thread in several colors, seam bindings, and ribbons to complete November’s orders. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hyacinth’s face was pale, Laney was openly crying, Jessie was yanking at a loose thread on her T-shirt, and Oliver was grinding the toe of his sneaker into the wooden floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A slender, shining silver thread stretched across the ravine, and the moment she touched it, it triggered something deep in the large cave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So the mouse raised his head and squared his shoulders and pushed the spool of thread forward again, into the kitchen, where he saw, too late, that there was a light burning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But those stained threads would need to be replaced. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They leaned on the rail, looking down into the water, the three poles like three slanting threads of yellow fire in the sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing thread. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Call it what you will. Glamor, seeming, illusion. R’hllor is Lord of Light, Jon Snow, and it is given to his servants to weave with it, as others weave with thread.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He tied off the thread and began on the pants. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And nobody seemed to mind she wasn’t there, especially not Mama and Aunt Loma, who got busy giving out thread samples and candy and had a swell time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But Moon Orchid immediately got the thread tangled and laughed about that. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing more. Nothing less. But I pretend, friend, I pretend. And what, may I ask, do you intend to do with the thread?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She watched David repair his leather clothes and decided she would never be able to manage a needle and thread well. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As she dropped, her spinning tubes went into action and she let out thread. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Slowly, the widow's fingers touched the smooth, delicate threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Littlefinger came calling an hour after the Grand Maester had left, clad in a plum-colored doublet with a mockingbird embroidered on the breast in black thread, and a striped cloak of black and white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The robe was green satin, richly worked with pearls and silver thread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ishmael threaded past without stopping and swiveled, skidding—a little gleefully, his stomach leaping—onto Center Valley Road. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Taking a needle she’d threaded, Mama showed them how to pull it through each piece of popcorn. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then she put her mouth to a small hole near one end of the shuttle and sucked out the end of the weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after threading her way through a cluster of rocks surrounded by foam, she came again to an endless stretch of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken over Mercy’s flax wheel and was slowly mastering the art of winding a fine uniform thread. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But she could see his delicate, wrinkled hands, skillfully tying the figures in his lap together with a red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The thread tugs harder, and I stoke the flame with names. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “There,” said Hovis, when the piece of thread broke and dropped to the ground. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Dozens of mechanized needles pumping up and down sounded a continuous clickety-clack, clickety-clack over the rumble of foot treadles and the whir of spinning spools of thread. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Once, many years before, Katrina had been asked to replace a few threads that had torn loose. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Silver threaded the coils of hair escaping from my mother’s headscarf, and her face was more gaunt than I remembered it, but I recognized her in an instant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We were in a rickshaw going to a store to find embroidery thread. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d go long stretches without talking but then pick up the thread of our friendship with ease. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But because the light travels such a long distance, the magic in it is fragile and diffused, stretched into the most delicate of threads. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He bored a small hole in the closed end of the shell, fastened a thread to an ant, introduced the ant into the hole, and then closed it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I can only see third- grade Rachel who liked barbecue potato chips and who braided pink embroidery thread into my hair that I wore for months until my mom made me cut it out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if she should mention her skill with the threads, her hope that perhaps she could use it as a way of making a living. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I picture my father hunched by the back door, lacing his steel-toed boots and threading his callused hands into welding gloves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The man nodded, looking relieved to have fulfilled his duty, and walked back across the ballroom, threading his way past the many couples dancing there. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On and on, now east, now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When I was not required to speak, I’d skate the icy cut of crystal with my eye; my gaze would follow the golden threads etched onto the rim of china. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife was a magician with a needle and thread. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It was a jumble, it was a mishmash, and somehow she pulled it all together, somehow she threaded every different thing through the voice of a solitary mockingbird singing in the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She wants to buy needles and thread, fabric and sandals from the camp’s black market. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In the predawn summer gray, vehicles, most of them old pickups with their lights on, pulled out of the hard-packed shiny dirt yards and began threading through the town’s narrow back roads. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled out a foot or more of the thread, wound it quickly around one of two iron hooks, and rehung the hooks into the last row of woven cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s a mess in my head—a mess of threads belonging to Jasmine and my brother and Sandy and that tent in the backyard and all the dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She sat at a loom the size of a big screen TV her hands weaving colored thread back and forth with amazing skill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He jerked his head in the direction of the distant shelters where a thread of white smoke climbed up the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He opened one large drawer slightly and she saw the folded robe with its bright threaded colors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My daughter would sit beside me in the room, a small scrap of cloth and a needle and thread in her hand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I recognize her expression as the one she wears when she threads a needle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The magistrate wailed as Mama pulled more plant-magic threads and more branches wound around other parts of him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There are a million threads from the past intertwined to make the ropes and cables of the modern world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To their surprise they came upon dark pools fed by threads of water trickling down from some source higher up the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She sat upon a bench threading a long needle in and out of a shoe sole and she stopped and held the needle poised and her mouth gaped open and showed her blackened teeth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She threaded the needle with green thread and returned it to me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In one corner stood a wide loom with a good many of the threads straggling down. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Among the threads hopped the cold little black figures of the birds. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “A mistake isn’t a failure,” Candice said, pulling at a loose thread. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Do you know the craft of weaving? Thread by thread, the pattern forms.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how we do laundry, which might kill me because I love the feel of fresh sheets, but the touch of this internment-chic bedding doesn’t exactly scream high thread count. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She had the distinct impression that his lips were pulling from her a thread of light. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “V>u will die, then, with a black heart. Threadmaster,” he called, “bring out the thread. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z If we used too much thread, she reported it to Mr. Das. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d only heard about it from Erastis, who described it in numinous terms, as if the Book were made out of light and magic instead of paper and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Jack’s uncle had a small factory that produced spools of thread, but he could no longer go to a large city for necessary supplies. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z But even as she said the words, a thread of misgiving wrapped around her rib cage and squeezed tight. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All the yarn and thread came from old clothes that had gotten too shabby to be worn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I thread my fingers through his and look around. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was standing looking away, the thread in her folded hands. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Biff bit the thread and smoothed the black band on the sleeve of his coat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And with a flourish, he pulled a thread out of his fraying sleeve and tied it around Pinmei’s wrist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don’t know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The road which passed the cabin lay like a thread dropped on a patchwork quilt. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were threads everywhere, clogging up the bubble. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She examined in turn the powder in her compact, the ridges on her nail file, the way her comb was inflexible and the threads of her handkerchief. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The pale blue blouse with the pink ribbon threaded through the collar. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When Gram saw them, they had butterfly wings and hats and tunics made with bits of thread and spare buttons they had managed to pluck from unsuspecting humans who wandered too close to the forest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The mind builds itself like a sirrah’s nest with whatever is at hand: silk threads and stolen hair and the feathers of dead kin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Argument after argument, old injuries were rehashed and threaded through new ones. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She brought it to her chair, and moved a basket filled with bright threads to the floor beside her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The rope went taut, held for an instant and then parted at the point where Hazel had gnawed it to a thread. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The bag she carried over her shoulder was filled with colored threads and yarns that Annabella had given to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma’am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain’t hardly worth the thread it take to stitch them.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now you will tell it to us, with your fingers and your threads,” he told her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t look up as we enter, just keep watching the needle, tucking the thread under the foot and pressing the fabric flat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That sound was like the last thread connecting us. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Yesterday, Rasheed had gone out and come home with a suede winter coat for a boy, lined inside with soft sheepskin, the sleeves embroidered with fine red and yellow silk thread. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His trousers sported multiple patches of various colors and materials, and his purple velveteen jacket had buttons made from—were those spools of thread? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And Despereaux, feeling emboldened by the smell of soup, again set to work pushing the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “We have red thread. How delightful. Red thread means one thing to a rat. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I thought about the way she nervously played with a loose thread on her sweater. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He hesitated as if he had lost the thread of his argument—not his own argument, perhaps, in the first place. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “It is a string of destiny,” Dragon said as he tried again without success to cut the thread with his claw. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Damaged spangles hung from her dress on hair-thin threads like some molting bird. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It took me ten full seconds, as we threaded the crowd past the stage, to recognize it as a bear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The sorcerer priest was garbed in somber black, but for a hint of golden thread at collar, cuffs, and hem. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stretched up from his boy’s lap and sniffed at threads of scent leaking in through the window, which told him they were now traveling into woodlands. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the end of the cloth, a small pocket held a lump of fragrant, summery yellow beeswax to use in strengthening the sinew thread. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He even offered to row them there, but he wanted too high a fee and so instead they went the long way, threading around drowned and rotting streets, down floating boardwalks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I gathered up my things and sat down with needle and thread to sew my travelsack back together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And following my story’s thread back to where I left off, I see the Jean Bart dock in Athens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It’s usually the number of buttons in her collection or shoes in my mother’s closet or spools of thread in the drawer. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sabeen pokes another pin in Arizona and pulls its thread down to Mexico. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had grown a generous mustache in the year since I had last seen him, and there were threads of gray at his temples, but I recognized him in an instant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z With the quilting thread, I tied off the cord and snipped. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Down, down, down went Despereaux Tilling and the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He threaded Seabiscuit through, and in a few strides he had seized the lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Busily the fairies began threading knotted ropes back and forth over the entrance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Red, black, and white threads zip in and around a set of dowels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z August said it could make your fishing line float, your button thread stronger, your furniture shinier, your stuck window glide, and your irritated skin glow like a baby’s bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The roar of a vacuum drifted down, threading through the faded drilling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t say the last part out loud but that was the thread I’d been weaving throughout the summer. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’ll be back in a jiffy,” she said, and then she walked calmly over to the edge of the peach and jumped off, paying out the thread behind her as she fell. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Well—four days have passed, three of them mentally and/or physically draining, and I have lost the thread. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Then he took a thick needle and thread and, with deft, quick strokes, he sewed it up, like a man stitching a baseball: the cadaver transformed from meat into girl once again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The womenfolk had spent all day paring apples, threading them on strings preparing to dry them for the winter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw them with white flowers beaded on the ankles, woolen balls of blanket thread to decorate the cuffs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Each evening we sat cross-legged in the courtyard threading beads in the last light of the day. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she plucked at a thread on her ragged cape or bent over to pull on her socks, which were loose and tended to slide down around her ankles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A screen effect that rains confetti down over our thread of messages. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Rocky was honing his knife; he tested the blade on a thread hanging from the sleeve of his jacket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Humming an upbeat tune, I got online and started to go through my latest email thread with Thomas. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Kate caught a single thread of hair with fingernails of thumb and forefinger and gently drew it out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, the sequined headpiece reappears—mended carefully with pink thread—and so Rosie looks glamorous as she charms the crowd in the menagerie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He pulled threads, pushing the water out and down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “The workers are finished. Alter the Gathering and this year’s Song, you’ll be able to start dyeing new threads for the robe.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no money for new threads with Poppy out of work. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Werner is eight years old and ferreting about in the refuse behind a storage shed when he discovers what looks like a large spool of thread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She remembered watching, fascinated, as her mother pushed a bone needle with thick colorful thread through the fabric; gradually a bright gold replaced the small frayed spot on one sleeve. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She took out three—no, not books of Shakespeare, like you might think—three brand-new baseballs, their covers as white as snow, their threads tight and ready for fingers to grip into a curve. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She had always thought the words a joke among the weavers, but here was this strange-smelling foreigner sucking Lyddie’s shuttles, leaving her spittle all over the thread hole. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She bought a string of Christmas tree lights and threaded them through the round fixtures, which she then hung in the bedroom. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Around them were skeins of thread, scissors, and little fabric squares poked full of needles. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s as though the fabric scraps of my self are being sewn together, in tiny, almost invisible stitches, with the finest of threads. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was old and worn and powder blue, as large as a small child, with three dimples near the left clasp and the words St. Anthony’s stitched on the side in silver thread. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Valerian points to the rowan necklace that dangles around my throat, dried red berries threaded onto a long silver chain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Take small stitches, Eleanor, and don’t yank the thread. It’s not a rein, and you’re not a coachman,” Sewing Mistress said later in the afternoon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The king's seat sat empty at the head of the table, the crowned stag of Baratheon embroidered in gold thread on its pillows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Heaps of skeins of beautiful threads colored like the rainbow lay beside each, and threads of gold and silver too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A someone who splintered the knot into silver threads that tangled us, netted us, made us long for the dull chafe of the previous boredom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t need a doctor. I just need a needle and thread. Patch me up like a sail, I’m good as new. ” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She woke immediately, crawled to the door of the lodge, and then, as Deydey walked toward the silent cabin with the tiniest thread of smoke coming from the chimney, Omakayas saw him stagger. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The kautuka, a yellow woolen bridal thread, was fastened around my wrist. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The words were like disconnected threads in Ekon’s mind that he couldn’t tie together. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She threaded her fingers through the tail of her long braid. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s altogether white now and looks like frayed nylon thread. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Kin moved his hands, trying to pull threads, but the horseshoes didn’t change trajectory. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When I got back downstairs, Darryl was sitting in his chair in the living room with a needle and thread, finishing up fixing the hem of his jacked-up pants. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He smiled at her and stood, then nodded to Ivan and Håkon before sparking golden threads of light magic in one hand. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Fear kept coming back, sprouting up anew as soon as Anya frayed those threads away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He wore a vest of woven gold thread over a loose gown of purple silk, and on his feet were pointed slippers of soft velvet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The stories of the living are all of one piece: a million colors along the same thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z No, Miig wouldn’t set up camp for that long, especially not with a steady thread of smoke reaching above the trees, blasting a signal to anyone who might be out there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Was she careless when she replaced the shuttle in the right-hand box or had there been a knot in the weft thread? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Andean textiles were woven with great precision—elite garments could have a thread count of five hundred per inch—and structured in elaborate layers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They had to thread their way through the crowd single file now, and holding on to one another was the only way to keep from being separated. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The memories of that moment were like an unfinished quilt, patched together with careless thread and always threatening to unravel. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The thread and the screwdriver we hid in the duct, a few feet from the entrance. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I set the needle and thread next to my shirt and waited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That rosy cheeks don’t last forever, that silver threads will come in the bonnie brown hair, and that, by-and-by, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z "I will use threaded stopper with a small hole for the wires. It will have little effect on the seal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched for a minute or two and then began to thread the flowers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z His hands were white from pinching, and he shook as he strained against the thread. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A thick, shimmering red thread stitched every piece into place. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z We threaded our way through the underground museum, looking at covered wagons and other junk from the 1800s. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z His velvet doublet was a soft blue-green, embroidered with golden thread at hem and sleeves and collar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She made a bubble and hardened the bubble into a cocoon around the girl—adding bright threads winding around and around. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “A needle and thread,” said Gregor, wondering if his dad’s mind was beginning to wander again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Reynie helped him shred the other attempted drawings, too, most of which resembled misshapen balls of yarn with numbered threads. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The ring was just an ordinary iron ring tied to a kind of gallows by a thread. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Macey picked up the loose story threads the best she could. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Like all the other thread viruses, Ebola Reston hides in a secret place. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On his back and his sides he carted around with him dust, threads, hair, and remnants of food. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen the old ladies in years, since Id witnessed them snip a life thread at a roadside fruit stand when I was twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Ivan reached forward, pulling a magic thread, and the water shifted up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A thread of faraway music floated past and vanished. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His hands were bound together with a rope that was threaded through a hook on the ceiling. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She gave me rags for the quilt and a few rupees to buy thread. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And so it was that Cook held open the door to the dungeon while Despereaux rolled the spool of thread through it. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She had a light complexion, large and peaceful eyes, and magical hands that seemed to work out the design of the embroidery with invisible threads. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I pull on the thread even though I know I shouldn’t. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z My favorite message threads were those devoted to bashing the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He detected the strength of the gossamer threads of affection that sometimes grew between a pair of young men or among a boatload of them striving honestly to do their best. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Most of the strings are threaded through long rows of paper cranes, all different colors and hiding their own secret messages. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “You must know that already. Any girl who can hold a needle and thread would’ve sufficed. Free labor is free labor.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The Old Man of the Moon with his bag of red threads, the Spirit of the Mountain holding up the moon as only he could...Pinmei recognized them all. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The Old Man’s thread still connected them and the red line wove itself among the other strands surrounding him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. And how exactly, will you use a spool of thread to save a princess?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Think about it: He was nothing but two ounces of mouse pushing a spool of thread that weighed almost as much as he did. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Slave work was sometimes spinning thread, yes; most times it was not. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Roofie, it was spooky. The doctor sewed me up with a needle and thread, like I was a pair of pants.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The Nightingale’s hand zipped up, and he caught the thread of her last word. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “You already have Anansi’s adinkra, which brings power to your stories. That is important—Alke is woven with stories, and the threads exist all around us. You can hear them sometimes. Music. Chanting. Rhythm.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Lyddie demonstrated—her powdered fingers pinching, looping, slipping, pulling—all in one fluid motion that magically produced a healed warp thread with no hint of a lump to betray the break. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I think of concealed pits, descending nets, a thread that when broken sends a poisonous dart into your heart. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I took out my phone and Vega and me scrolled through some of the threads online. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I let the arrow fly, see it hit its mark and vanish, pulling the thread of gold behind it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Concentrating, I reached for the rhythm of the story thread inside, and I spoke the sentence Nana started every one of her stories with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As she grabbed the purse, the skein of gold thread fell out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z For this reason she left her alone with her embroidery threads and said nothing about Rosa’s nightmarish zoology. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all I could do to keep from cheering as the Saturn threaded the needle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Thin lines of moss and mold threaded through the cloth so the bra clung to the dead wood more than hung from it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Using a needle and thread of my mother’s that had been left behind, I tore out one of the seams in my prisoner coat and sewed the money inside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z One by one, the threads of his rope snapped beneath Grave’s dagger, and Nox, sensing the vibrations, looked up at the assassin in horror. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This arc of the belt brought them through Cleopatra Park, where Tally threaded the slalom poles for old times’ sake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He’s been pulling at a thread on the duvet, but he looks back up, squarely into Alex’s eyes, and says, “That’s not good enough for me.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And, threading gently through it all, a lute played in the background. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Glerk looked even closer, at the threads of the magic—each individual strand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A silver thread of river bisected the field and there, nestling in the fold of a meander loop, was the proud oak. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Then he took a strong thread and he sewed Loki’s lips together with it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here is the difference between us: Gregory’s rope saves him. And your thread will be the death of you.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z In the pause before someone picks up the thread of conversation, they all listen to the baby's soft breathing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She called up to a guard, and in a few minutes two dozen diapers came down on a thread. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see her, with tired eyes, threading needles, and the floor covered with snippets of material. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Each rod had a threaded end that narrowed to a point, and the other end was shaped to fit into a carpenter’s brace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In her hands she holds the terrible shears she’ll use to cut the thread of your child’s life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real golden thread for the sunbeams?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He rummaged in the pouch hung around his neck, and pulled out the two halves of holly still just connected by the finest thread of phoenix feather. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I can take threads from someone, but they can pick them up again. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Holly could alter, cut a pattern, and sew like she was doing nothing harder than threading a needle. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z A fly that had been crawling along Wilbur’s trough had flown up and blundered into the lower part of Charlotte’s web and was tangled in the sticky threads. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He was able to pull the needle through his flesh, but he couldn’t tie off the thread. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Winged seeds lay beneath the tulip trees, and all along the roads milkweed pods began to spill white silky threads. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z How they bathed him three times a day, and how the G on his underwear was embroidered with blue thread. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping one eye on Cook, he stepped out from behind the spool of thread and crept closer. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z However, let me return to my original thread. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Will threaded their way through a thicket, then started up the Slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He saw that the floor of the dungeon was littered with tufts of fur, knots of red thread, and the skeletons of mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Pearl thought about Moody, about Lexie and Trip, the threads that still bound her to each of them in different ways. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She stared down at the bedspread, found a thread, and began rolling it into a pellet. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Anya touched his threads of fear, rolling them between her fingertips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I wrap my arms around his neck and then thread my fingers into his hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Then she started weaving something to take the place of the threads she had removed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Among these a cunning eye and foot could thread a wandering path. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I had entered the endless abyss of threading and waxing and lasers—otherwise known as a lifetime of physical and psychological torture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Swirls of silk thread on the bodice made rose-like designs that could have passed for a work by any master painter. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I thought he would have come apart like a rag doll with a pulled thread, but he doesn’t look that different, except for some bandages and scrapes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He walked to the tear and pulled a silver thread out of nowhere. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Who else would have a container made out of two huge sycamore leaves sewn together with wild grapevine thread and filled with daylily buds? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Chaol tossed his cape on top of hers, his toned body flexing through the dark threads of his shirt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Each time, however, he drew back, as if someone were controlling him by an invisible thread. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z While he was waiting for the anesthetic to numb his finger, he did more digging and found a sterile package with a curved needle and thread, a needle holder, and forceps. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Violet wore the same dress each time and Alice was irritated by the thread running loose from her sleeve, as well as the coat lining ripped in at least three places she could see. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Onions were made into long ropes, braided together by their tops, and then were hung in the attic beside wreaths of red peppers strung on threads. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Pull one wrong thread and I would be standing in wreckage to my elbows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Alfhercht let his threads go, and the water of the ditch slapped together as it engulfed where the group had just walked up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Sure enough, a skater on a board was threading his way through the parking lot. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew—family, home, friends—writing was the thread of continuity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With her needles and threads, she settled down for the night with Mr. Higgenbottom across her lap. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There, between the clouds, they could see the constellations—each set of stars a story, spelled out in needlepoints of light and the imaginary threads that connected them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “If I write the word ‘Terrific’ with sticky thread,” she thought, “every bug that comes along will get stuck in it and spoil the effect.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “I can give you some threads,” she said, “to start the repair. But you must learn the dyes. There are other things they’ll want of you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her needle and thread hold more magic than any wand. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wearing the red thread of death” was a terrible phrase, but the mouse didn’t have long to consider its implications, because he was suddenly pushed from behind by the hooded mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z On the far side, a thread of smoke drifted up from another of those wooden domes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Below, though the threads were in places blurred or broken, the outline could be seen of an anvil and a hammer surmounted by a crown with seven stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He carefully threaded the blade between flesh and plastic, working it back and forth to saw the cuffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It hung above them, its chest a stitch of red thread in the white silk sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If the weaver of the world itself had kept the snipped ends of every thread she’d ever used, her basket might look something like this. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was hanging from the ceiling, suspended by a rope of threads at either end so that actually it looked more like a hammock than a bed. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “One of your retainers, you say? How did he thread the string without breaking the shell?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Ilya stopped a few feet away from it, then held his hands up, plucking at threads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She tried to string these new words with the old ones in sentences, but she had no more success than a blind man threading beads. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z But in the darkness, Pinmei saw the faint red glow of the thread around her wrist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Then Templeton bared his long ugly teeth and began snipping the threads that fastened the sac to the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He looked up at Despereaux and then back down at the loop of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z My nose had been cut almost clean off my face as I went through the rear windscreen and now it was hanging on only by a single small thread of skin. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman advanced through the field, hands up and strumming the threads of magic in the air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped to her hands and knees to locate the spool of thread; when she found it, she stood back up and offered it to Pea. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Silence threads through the house like a lace pulling tight, and then I finally hear the scraping of another chair and the sound of Lily sighing herself into place. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They tumble forth, competing for precedence and sometimes coming out so tangled I have to back up and pick up a different thread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I thought about the dozens of stories I’d heard my father collect over the last year, trying to pick out the common threads. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was nicer wood than the loom my grandma used with the thread we had made. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of them trailed after, threading their way through smoke and fallen stones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if the thread broke,” the Ladybug said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z A thin thread of curling black smoke drifted up past the window. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Vincent adds diagonal threads from the corners to create an X through the middle, so it looks like the Union Jack British flag, or a six-pointed asterisk. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the tiny figure could be seen, threading wearily through the far trees of the chase, a murmuration went up among the people. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the tiny mole just underneath her eye, the scar that slashed like a white thread through her left eyebrow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z St. Anthony’s, the scrawl of silver thread across the top announced. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She was already planning to build a new threading frame. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though voices had been spun out like threads, twisted taut, ready to snap. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He reached a hand up and grabbed a thread, flicking his wrist up and throwing monster back in Ivan’s face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I had sat mesmerized in the almost holy silence in which she worked, as she wove the needle in and out of stitches, forming pictures with thread. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The entire forest area, the hundreds of tiny stitches in shades of green, had darkened, and the threads had knotted and twisted in odd ways. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure crosses six evenly spaced friction strips on the kitchen tiles to reach the table; she follows a strand of twine he has threaded from the table to the toilet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There were no cracks in which to thread razor wire and no hinges to remove. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I embroider this scene again and again,” Kira said, “and sometimes—not always—my hands begin to move in ways I don’t understand. The threads seem to take on a power of their own.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “I’m using many of her threads still, but I’m beginning now to make my own when I’m at her cott.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a wad of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Late in the night, I’d lie in bed, thinking, You must gather up the broken threads and tie them together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He threaded his fingers through his bangs and tugged. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The sky had begun to unravel in scarlet threads. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z On the breast of his tunic, the lion of his House was embroidered in gold thread, roaring its defiance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had it proclaimed everywhere that a great reward would be given to whoever could pass a thread through an intricately spiraled shell. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s better when the common threads are made explicit, because in the vast private web of a writer’s imagination, anything can be similar to anything else. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Later, my dad was the one who taught me how to work a needle and thread. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He was stooped and leather-skinned, with one blind eye and hair like coarse white linen thread. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She slept and slept and still there were hours awake to worry when her mind skimple- skombled back on itself like threads in a snarled loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They simply left her one day, moved out while she was in the town buying thread. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At another time when we were before our evening fire, he set about using needle and thread to mend the holes in his leggings. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The work of drawing the warp threads from the beam through the harness and reeds had to be done painstakingly by hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Under the blanket of winter white, the boulders and trees glimmered with golden threads of light, swirling and shifting with the passage of time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “I’m not as strong with metal magic as Da is. So he could always pull the threads back from me eventually. I had to surprise him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Sigurd tore out of the river as Dobrynya pulled his handful of water threads and the canyon collapsed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “See,” Ivan said, “when I threw the water at the Nightingale, I let go of the threads. And he picked them up to stop the water from hitting him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Workers had raised a structure that Kira could see was to be a shed; under its roof, long poles from which to hang the wet yarns and threads to dry were already in place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First the place mat, then a loose thread on his shirt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra felt an invisible thread of possibility hanging in the air between them, but she didn’t know what was supposed to happen next. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It held a change of clothes, a loaf of trail bread, some jerked meat, a skin of water, needle and thread, flint and steel, pens and ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Mother made a frame with cardboard, glue, and thread, and Nasser’s photograph, with this sentence written underneath, was the only picture in our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I pull at a thread on my skirt. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Once the trumpet fanfare faded away, a chorus of men began to sing, their voices blending like threads of silk on a loom. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes I went up to the frozen cliffwall and looked down, down, at where the lights lay blue, like the threads running out from a star, patterning the snow. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He could feel every vein and artery in his body threading fire through his frame, if it was not ice that they pumped: he could not tell. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The keys chime and the floor creaks and she thinks she can smell threads of dust cascading from the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I grabbed the edge of my seat, every inch of me pulled up tight as spooled thread. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I push it into Africa’s coast and angle the thread to New York. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z She had a few threads of gray at her temples, which I hadn’t noticed before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Not a strand or thread out of place. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I see Charlie, standing in the center of the kitchen, playing with his spinner, bright colored beads and rings threaded on a string. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I touched Gran’s collection of fabrics, the shiny bright buttons, the colored threads. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider, but denser-woven and far greater, and each thread was as thick as rope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It’s fine most of the time, but at others, it is a thin thread. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If only her mothers threads had been saved! Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I unleash dust and a mustiness scents the air, but my thread count options are limited, so I unzip the sleeping bag, spread it over the chair, and then inflate the camping pillow. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Then smaller metallic threads started weaving together magically between the main strands, making a net. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On her first day on the job as a castle servant, she was sent to deliver a spool of red thread to the princess. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Amil and I watched with open mouths as he injected Kazi with something that would numb his skin and then started to thread his needle with thick black thread. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After a few more tries I tied the thread around the button. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She threads one newspaper streamer through her fingers. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He broke into a trot, chasing the thread through the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Time and time again they reached the end of the thread and had to come back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I shall consider solely the principality, weaving together the threads mentioned above as I go, and I shall discuss how these principalities can be governed and maintained. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z She reached her fingers toward the water, setting them against invisible threads in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She motioned me to shush my mouth and hold my hands out so she could circle the embroidery thread around them to straighten it out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a small stain across an intricately threaded flower in shades of gold, part of a landscape that portrayed rows of tall sunflowers near a pale green stream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Clifton had been making it dance all the time and the black thread had been invisible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fortunate that it needed no repair because Kira had no threads to match. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all older than I, and I was sure that they did not think I could even draw a thread through a needle. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z As he did so, he curled his legs and arms up round him, like a spider whose descending thread is snapped. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Or concocting a pass-fail test—he was famous for that type—where he threaded together questions that could throw a guy for a loss, with what seemed like a million possible answers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But as they tried to trim the thread — A-Fu thought it would look neater if the end didn’t dangle — they discovered that the borrowed line could not be cut. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We threaded our way through the crowd at the Number One Department Store, searching the store for just the right green schoolbag, large enough to carry ten big books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say red thread is special, sacred; though I, myself, after having spent so much time with it, know it for what it is. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z So smooth and delicate, they were almost like threads of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We know too little of the threads that bind the soil organisms to each other and to their world, and to the world above. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As she stirred with one hand, she wove threads with the other. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I pushed forward and saw my own lopsided collar on display, the black background nicely pointing up every dropped stitch of white thread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What she felt remained a mystery, she felt a thousand things at once, she could not unravel the thread of her feelings with enough certainty to speak with any accuracy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If I could get some thread, maybe I could tighten the waist and make her torn dress into a blouse. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It had threaded out the door of the truck. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z All the gold thread was kept locked in a cupboard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I pulled the needle out and then gave the thread a gentle jerk to tighten it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The beads around her neck are small and expensive, glass coated with real gold paint, and her blouse shimmers with flowers of finely stitched gold and pink thread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She sounded calm, but there was still a thread of hurt in her voice. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Kit admired the fine perfect thread that slipped evenly through Hannah’s fingers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I thought through what she said and found a slim thread of hope to grasp hold of. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Minli said, “maybe it is magic, like the thread. Try.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Then her hands flicked open the metal fastenings on her black bag and began plucking out clear bottles of liquid, bandages, gleaming silver scissors, forceps, curved needles, and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If, on an interstellar voyage, you are not paying attention, you can find yourself drawn into it irrevocably, your body stretched unpleasantly into a long, thin thread. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The late sun sifts through the bougainvillea trained to climb the walls of the patio, to thread across the trellis roof, to pour down magenta and purple blossoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He looked down once more at the coppery threads glinting in the bottom of the bath. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Sew it with gold thread,” she instructed her maid. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His arms and legs lashed out, but his claws were as useless as knots of thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She put a thread in her mouth and wet it with her lips. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Abhi took two—for bracelets—Zoser the little one for—thread. And I myself have—used the others. I'll not—weigh short at the end of the day, you may—stake your life on that!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I head to the front door for my satchel, ready to thread together more of Minny’s stories. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At the last second he found the golden thread of its trajectory and swept his hands through the air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A feathery white fog threaded through the cars and nearby trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I find a few more bloodstains, one with a few threads of fabric glued to it, but no sign of life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His red satin cape was patterned in gold thread; fifty roaring lions to one side, fifty prancing stags to the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The spider leapt from Moody’s hand on a fine thread of silk and began to swing backward and forward as though on a trapeze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In one thin arm, threaded with veins in a kind of senescent bas-relief, was a basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, foam flecked upper lips of all eight men and thin lines of beer and saliva ran like threads of light from mouths to flight jackets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot, who did not care for gaudy things, wore a few heron’s hackles bound with silver thread, which suited the argent of his shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In shock, I threaded my way through the onlookers and climbed up on the platform. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After a time, a thread of blood began to trickle over the lip of the drain into the trampled, deserted ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd could manipulate magic threads with his sword. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then, carefully, using the delicate cutting tools she had been given, Kira snipped away the frayed threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It threaded between boulders and past baobab trees with their roots firmly tapped into pockets of water in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant threads crisscrossed in an intricate pattern of loops and knots that Kira had never seen before, that she could not have created, that she had never known or heard described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The thread, the thread, the thread,” murmured the mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z IT beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I tugged at a loose thread on my bedspread. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He hooked his fingers around a magic thread and walked with it a few paces away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It settled out of solution in a white “fibrous substance...that wraps itself about a glass rod like a thread on a spool.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Which had been true from the very start—all I’d ever known from them—so I didn’t question it much until I was older and began to pull on the loose threads in my life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He threaded my free hand through one of his and reached out for you with his other hand. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As I open the back door, my friendship bracelet gets caught on the latch and a thread rips. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “I’m good at that. I’ve knotted so much yarn and thread.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Woven carbon thread ran slowly through the press, which sandwiched it between polymer sheets. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they pulled on their beautiful white stockings, that they had knit of fine cotton thread in lacy, openwork patterns, and they buttoned up their best shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But then when you’re friends because of who you were and not who you are, it’s hard not to find the common thread that stitches you together. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He wove the threads together, braiding them up and around, painstaking in his art. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I threaded another wet tablecloth through the mangle to squeeze the water from it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a needle and sterile thread in the first-aid supplies, but what we lack is a healer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Before Hannah could deny it, the girl had threaded her arm through Hannah’s, calling out to a knot of girls who were standing by a newly arrived wagon. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So when we left chemistry and headed for the gym, I shifted my books over to one arm and took his hand, threading our fingers together. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Nearly everywhere there was the hiss of little campstoves, threads of rising food smoke, and the movements of lanky young people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir,” said the driver, threading his way in and out the traffic of Broadway, which greatly interested both the children and the penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He pushed the spool of thread with a great deal of gusto. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Thin threads of light entered through their boarded windows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Two spools of thread, one white chess bishop, and six parts of a jigsaw puzzle...A teaspoon and a closed box of safety matches...A radish, two pennies, a nickel, and a golf ball. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “I need it, Pita. It’s silk,” I explained, ripping it so I could pull out a single piece of thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She put her finger on one of the threads coming out of her own chest, and that barest touch brought a flood of terror into her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In two hundred years it is, as we have found, easy to lose the thread. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She struggled to find the gossamer thread again, and as she was about to give up, it flashed at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had a little pointed chin beard now, and threads of silver in his dark hair, though he was still shy of thirty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He led on, pinching and, pulling the nearly invisible thread away, looking like he was doing some kind of weird sign language. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were so worn from countless washings that the threads were beginning to separate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The thread’s cheap dye bleeds into the fabric. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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