It is surprisingly effective: just think of Captain Gulliver, tied down by hundreds of thread-like Lilliputian ropes.
The fungus itself consists of an almost microscopically fine web called a mycelium, made up of long, thread-like structures usually buried beneath the soil.
All of the specimens measured a thread-like 0.57mm (0.02in) in width.
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That night, I had my first inkling of what juniper can do, for its faintly resinous astringency shot through that luxurious pork roast like silver thread.
But there's no doubt that he runs through Marwa's story like a bright thread through a dark tapestry.
It sat, dangling like a loose thread, demanding to be pulled.
You may not feel like leaving your club tower deluxe room, stocked with a host of luxury amenities like 300-thread-count linens, original Latin artwork and views of the award-winning pool.
It works like this: thread by thread technicians apply the synthetic, polyester-based extensions to each tiny lash (up to 120 an eye) leaving clients the look of full eye-make up.
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Most of them are Muslim men with very specialized skills, such as thread embroidery or stone embroidery -- just like shoemakers, or artists.
Removing this potent source of data from someone attempting to thread their way through a crucial conversation is like asking someone to drive a windy country road at sixty miles an hour with their eyes closed.
There's a metal tube in the middle with dozens of needles that act like robotic claws, grabbing pieces of thread and knitting them.
That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread -- than it does with a record like I ended up with.
But looking at them together, as I did, there was a common thread that ran through the photographs of these Power Women: like my mother, they are 57 and stunning.
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Like trailing an animal, tracking is about discovering the thread between you and a thinking creature.
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Everyone agrees that the tone and content of many of them is a bit shrill and occasionally intolerant (kind of like University faculty meetings), but there is one repeating thread, by one of your most prestigious employees, Dr. Tom Wigley, that is far beyond the pale of most academic backbiting.
She watched as her grandmother struggled to thread a needle with fingers that were beginning to bend at odd angles, like old trees.
The common thread among them is better app management, including customized default apps for basics like emails and calendars and cosmetic changes like hiding apps you never use or creating better, bolder icons.
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It feels a little like staying in a tented campground, except instead of tents guests luxuriate in carpeted rooms with 220-thread-count sheets, down comforters and cable television.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
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