Her voice sounded weak and thready to her own ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
From these thready parts the species takes its name. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
When she saw Gray, there was a catch in her thready breath. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference
Elise made a low thready noise and started to cough, hacking. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
Children in Holland say "draadjesvlees" literally thready meat. From Wordnik.com. [Carbonnade: Beef, Brown Beer, and Onions] Reference
It is thready, weak and far too slow, half of what it should be. From Wordnik.com. [Zeppelins Update Forthcoming] Reference
Their heart rate may be fast, but it may be a little bit thready. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006] Reference
Her face was chalky and almost blue, her pulse rapid and thready. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
Rowan screamed, but all that came out was a thready, weak whisper. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
His pulse was fast and thready and his skin was cool to the touch. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
We passed the giant Uniroyal tire and the thready woods of Inkster. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
One man was unconscious, skin chill, breath shallow, pulse thready. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
This week is going to be thready for me, but hopefully not too open. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-10] Reference
Instead, her words rang hollow to her ear, her voice thin and thready. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory, Book 3: Evolution] Reference
She says in an anile thready high cracking voice, "Oh, you're reading.". From Wordnik.com. [An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading.] Reference
His pulse was rapid and thready, his skin cool and clammy to the touch. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Influence] Reference
I'm at the wrong end of several security layers and thready connections. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
It was a high, thready sound, not the robust keening they'd heard before. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
"I absolutely refuse to go to hospital," she said in a clear thready voice. From Wordnik.com. [Tulips For Augusta]
"Jim," said Diamond Jim, coughing, his voice high and thready in the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
He held McCoy, feeling the doctor's pulse race frantically, thready and weak. From Wordnik.com. [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference
But there are a few signs of a new economic heartbeat, albeit thready and fragile. From Wordnik.com. [Life Amid The Ruins: Gazans Still Feel Under Siege] Reference
“We could make a movie out of this,” she managed in a thready, unsteady voice. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
I had a lot more, but this really thready connection isn't going to let me finish. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The child's air passage was clear, but her breathing was thready, as was her pulse. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
The black fort, staging base, whatever it was, had a thready link farther backtime. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
She could feel its thready breathing and warm ectoplasm leaking down her collarbone. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
His hand trembled as he touched the side of her throat, where a thready pulse fluttered. From Wordnik.com. [Captured by Moonlight] Reference
Open-thready: So, the 2010 Virginia Festival of the Book runs tomorrow through Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference
After around 25 minutes, you notice that the milk has thickened to a thready consistency. From Wordnik.com. [Teratti Paal - Mother of all Tambram sweets in Diwali Blogging - III] Reference
For some weeks previous to his death, his pulse had become slow and thready, 36 in the minute. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
She forced the thready whisper through immobilized lips and jaws that were firmly wired together. From Wordnik.com. [Journey Into Love]
He was seeing the positive effect of a man now, that thready, hopeful light that emanated outward. From Wordnik.com. [The Position] Reference
I was to take climbed up in thready zigzags, and disappeared round a bold headland. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
The room is dead silent except for the thready gasps he can't keep back, and it breaks his focus. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
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