Word: threads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story of Medea. How she helped Jason to fulfil his tasks, and secure the golden fleece; how she at length became his wife, and how he deserted her to marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, and Medea's revenge for her wrongs. The story served as a thread to bind together and give connection to the pictures...
Last evening Rev. George A. Gordon occupied the pulpit in Appleton Chapel. His text was the ninth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Judges: "And she said unto him. The Philistines be upon thee Samson. And he brake the withes as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known...
...work of Mr. Duncan in his biographical sketch, "The Conversion of Geoffrey Varaille," is praiseworthy particularly for the way in which the thread of the story of the monk's life is sustained and for ease and clearness of style...
...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
Hosiery in silk, lisle thread and cotton; underwear in cashmere, light wool, Balbriggan, summer merino and gauze...