Looking for sentences and phrases with the word packthread? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Boil different sorts of vegetables together, including half a peck of pens, and a cabbage blanched, cut in quarters, and tied with packthread.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
Now, if we could get rid of the bonds of self first, we could snap the other fetters like packthread.
The barbed-wire obstructions before the German positions were cut like packthread.
On the night of the 22d of September a violent storm drove the Centurion from her anchorage, sundering her cables like packthread.
Harrison substituted inkle in 1587 for packthread in 1577, a curious flight backward for modern readers.
Cut open the sweet-breads and stuff them with it, fastening them afterwards with a skewer, or tying them round with packthread.
Fill them with the above mixture, and secure the ends by tying them with packthread or fine twine.
The inkle was a favourite pedlar-sold tape of the day, probably more at hand and more to the purpose than packthread.
The carpet and furniture are strewed with long, straggling pieces of packthread.
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
Well, Sir, that imp there winds her round her finger like a piece of packthread.
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scattered to make up a show.
Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.
