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Meanings of silken thread in English
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Usage of silken thread in English
1
The words were to him as pearls strung on a silken thread.
2
As she dropped, a tiny silken thread unwound from her rear end.
3
Her mind seemed now like a bird tied by a long silken thread.
4
He lowered himself from a tree branch, high above on a silken thread.
5
Bring home instead a silken thread, by which you may find your way back.
6
She laid it in his hand-a long brown silken thread.
7
Benevolence is the silken thread that runs through the pearl-chain of all their virtues.
8
This small letter tied with a silken thread--(Examines the address.)
9
Often all hangs on the silken thread of imagination.
10
The Queen called for some ribbons four ells long, made of silken thread and gold.
11
Then, slowly, his eyes rose from the silken thread in his fingers and met Pierre's.
12
But these are only fishing-nets of silken thread; and this is the street of the fishermen.
13
He was pulling in yards of silken thread, too fine to be resolved by the glass.
14
The caterpillars are very active, wriggling violently when disturbed, and falling by a white silken thread.
15
What she saw was an object that resembled a great spider suspended from a silken thread.
16
The silken thread snapped in Madeleine's hand.
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Silken thread through the time
Silken thread across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common