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Meanings of gossamer thread in English

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Usage of gossamer thread in English
1
The main figure leads its troop on gossamer thread of varied journey.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
2
I am not bound to her by even a gossamer thread.
From Jest to Earnest
3
They dragged him through the crisis, but his life hung on a gossamer thread.
Mary Barton
4
It was a simple gown, caught lightly at the waist by a gossamer thread.
Cat’s Cradle
5
They seemed to dangle, by some gossamer thread, from the grey vault of Heaven.
Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
6
Yet if you jump yourself, I'll not pull a gossamer thread to draw back.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
7
Attached to the hook was a gossamer thread.
Rogues
8
I had collided, to put it clumsily, with a gossamer thread stretching skywards from a spider.
The Irish Times
9
The clue to the enigma seems to glance across him, in the form of a gossamer thread.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
10
The last room has beauty in abundance, numerous sculptures created out of gossamer thread, spun steel and glass.
The Guardian
11
Her promise was as thin as a gossamer thread, yet it seemed to bind, her like a steel chain.
All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War
12
Later there had come rolls of fine flannel and lawn, with gossamer thread and fairy needles and embroidery floss.
Robin
13
It is the same 'giant arm' which twists 'the largest cable', that spins from the cotton plant an 'almost gossamer thread'.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
14
And he caught glimpses of Storch himself hanging spider-wise from a gossamer thread, spinning dizzily in midair...
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
15
The artist had carved the bead to give the impression that it was in fact a ball of gossamer thread, wound upon itself.
Imajica: Complete Edition
16
A love affair hangs upon a gossamer thread, you know, and that is why I tried to persuade Doris away from her friends.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
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Gossamer thread across language varieties
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