Threaded

Examples

• Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Little Dorrit gladly put it by her side, took out her little pocket-housewife, threaded the needle, and began to hem. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The ball of cord carried on the machine has one end threaded through the needle and fastened in a holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They walked on towards the town, towards where the lamps threaded singly, at long intervals down the dark high-road of the valley. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• On the base of the upper half a hard wood screw is inserted and at the top of the butt a threaded hole is bored. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It consisted of a single convolution of a three-threaded screw, and may be considered to be the first screw propeller invented. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Through the length of five-and-twenty couples they threaded their giddy way, and a new vitality entered her form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Another field crossed--a lane threaded--and there were the courtyard walls--the back offices: the house itself, the rookery still hid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The Archimedes was originally fitted with a single-threaded screw, the threads of which were 8 feet apart, and there were two convolutions of the screw round the shaft. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Together we threaded the long hall and reached the balcony overlooking the courtyard, without being detected. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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