This accomplished, the tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed, so it was said the child would recover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

You must know, I made a second excursion to these antient ruins, and measured the arena of the amphitheatre with packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Then have new bags, wash them first in warm water, and then in cold, wring them dry, and being ready strung with packthread on sticks, hang them on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

His shoes were newly greased, and ornamented with a pair of rusty iron buckles; the packthread at his knees had been renewed; and where he wanted buttons, he wore pins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge] Reference

Tie on with a packthread the bit that was cut out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, 52.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. Romeo and Juliet] Reference

It was tied with pink packthread instead of ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Country Girl] Reference

Edw, So fhould I too, if we had only fome packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new Robinson Crusoe : an instructive and entertaining history for the use of children of both sexes, translated from the French] Reference

Before you put them on the table remove the packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

Chelsea found it packthread, or did until Anelka broke through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

They would not trust me with a toothpick or a button or a piece of common packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Ibbetson] Reference

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Redux] Reference

'He's what you may call a kind' oss, and as gentle -- you could ride him on a packthread. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference

Then tie them round with packthread, and put them into a stone jar till it is two-thirds full.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

So he can go with his Skylarks they may wear sackcloth for pinafores, and packthread for garters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures] Reference

Fill them with the above mixture, and secure the ends by tying them with packthread or fine twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

Then (having tied on the pieces with packthread) put them into strong salt and water for two days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference

The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

The weight was no longer upon it, it was light as packthread, and returned to our hands without effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting – needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World] Reference

Twigs are wattled between the pickets like ordinary basket-work, and fastened at the ends by withs or packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

In falling, Bill had struck the chain-span of the weather-quarter davits, breaking it as if it had been packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunshine Bill] Reference

But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference

'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

Then, of course, there were purchases to be made in the way of business, such as Calais packthread and canvas from Arras or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval People] Reference

Cut open the sweet-breads and stuff them with it, fastening them afterwards with a skewer, or tying them round with packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

Cover the fat with sheets of paper two double, buttered, and tied on with packthread that has been soaked to keep it from burning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

She would never be without some piece of packthread to twist in her hands; some napkin to tie in knots; some paper or wood to chew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XVI. Book IV] Reference

Orchids bunch the boughs and boles of dead forest-giants; and llianas, the African 'tie-tie,' varying in growth from a packthread to.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

But M. Berthémie, more prudent than I, carried over his shoulder a great quantity of pieces of black bread, tied up with packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

Page: 149 of a lath, and with packthread tye the Pike to the Spit, tye also along the side of the Pike which is not defended with the Spit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex] Reference

The outer rim of the lip surrounding the wooden button becomes by the violent stretching as thin as a packthread, and of a dark blue colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2] Reference

The ropes parted like packthread; the building slewed round, reeled for a moment with a drunken air, caught on a shallow spot, and hung there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference

The Hand-bos, a bulwark formed of oaken piles, fastened with metal clamps, moored with iron anchors, and secured by gravel and granite, was snapped to pieces like packthread.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference