Sentence Examples

1. The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting needle.
2. I have seen him do the somersault several times together upon a trencher fixed on the rope, which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.
3. Eighty poles, each one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords, of the bigness of packthread, were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.